tom

After running smoothly for about a month since coming out of storage my 1980 230G has begun failing to start correctly. <br><br> Sometimes when I get in and turn the key it is perfectly normal and starts fine. Other times it makes this terrible grinding sound, with no engine turnover whatsoever. It sounds like what you would expect to hear if you turned the key in a car with the engine already running. It's quite loud and sounds very bad, and there is no in between, either it starts totally fine, or it completely misses and makes this noise with nothing from the engine.<br><br> As I said, It ran fine for about a month and just began to do this, and it's frequency has been increasing. It's not specific to the car being cold or warm either, it seems to be random.<br><br> Clearly, it seems as though some connection is just plain being not getting made. Of course I will be getting it into my benz-mechanic as soon as I can, but that unfortunately cannot be as soon as I'd like.<br><br> If anyone has any ideas or insight taht could help me out it would be incredibly appreciated. I imagine that it is a starter problem, but since it either works perfectly or not at all, any ideas as per what might be wrong, or what I could do to fix/help the problem? <p><br>Infinite Thanks,<br><br>-tom<br><br>1980 MB 230G<br><p>