contamination

I've got an '02 W211 E270 CDi (produced in March). I suspect that my car suffers from the Valeo radiator problem leading to glycol contamination into the ATF, at least the oil did smell a bit like antifreeze, the rpm wandered a bit between 1,200 and 2,000 rpm on light load. There was also a...

Hi everyone, is it true that antifreeze from the radiator can enter the automatic transmission and course irreparable damage

Hi all,hope you've had a good Christmas. I took my car to an indie at the beginning of December for the test as the car has been displaying the dreaded contamination symptoms. I'm still waiting for the results!!!(something about them not having the crystals) but am pretty certain the...

Hi All, Brief history is the purchase of a 2001 C200 Kompressor 4 weeks ago and all seemed good. Then last week I have instrument cluster failure and resistance to start off the key, often 4 or 5 times before it will turn over. I took the car to an Indy who said he thought it was ignition unit...

Hi guys, had my car just a few days now. Mostly I have been driving the car in manual mode with the paddle gears which is a lot of fun, but now I've got that out of my system I've switched back to Standard Auto. I'm gonna book the car in for a glycol test, later this week, but am trying to...

Hi Guys, I have been reading a lot on the glycol contamination issues for the w203/209/211 up to 9/2003 on this forum. I myself have recently imported a w209 production date 03/2003 from Germany (I reside in NL) with about 40k mileage. It drives very smooth and i dont seem to have any probs...

http://www.hannainst.co.uk/acatalog/HI_3859_Glycol_test_kit.html States for use testing oils so presume that covers ATF as well. £70 ish inc VAT but enough to run 25 tests, so maybe something for sharing or an "activity" at a GTG activity. Could run a sweep on how many have potentially...