the blower definetly sounds like the sword is a good place to start, as for dieing and not restarting id be checking the connections around the battery, on the underhood battery cars they also have a fusable link on the strut tower next to the battery that the bolts get loose that hold the fuse and sometimes the fuse corrodes and cracks, if your fuse is bad and the dealer doesn't have a replacment old mercedes diesels used the same fuse on their glow plug relays so benz dealers are another source, lets call it a 84 300d turbo if you need to go there, sol at either dealer try a parts store for a 80 amp strap fuse and hope the guy at the counter is not a tard
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