Q: Mercedes Diesel takes 30 to 40 sec to start every time cold or hot

asked by on January 01, 2017

its a ml 270 with a 5 cylinder diesel engine.my car has hard start all the time.could it be something like the loss of high pressure from the common rail?

My car has 160000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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