kickdown

So if I pull away gently in D with either 'E' or 'S' selected it pulls away in 2nd gear? If I pull away briskly in D with 'S' selected it moves off rather sharpish in 1st gear and will pull nicely through the gears. Mr Trever in his bean can corsa was quite surprised :D Say I leave a...

Hi All My W203 C180 (2000) has developed a serious problem with the throttle sticking. Driving back from local shops last week throttle suddendly jammed...........went past my house at 140MPH with very braking doing very little. fortunately there is a field with a steep encline nearby managed...

Hi guys, loking for some advice on how i can progress an issue i have got since my car has come back from paint.before the car started starightaway by the first turn, no idling issues, kickdown responded near enough instantlythe car has been sitting idle for nearly 2 months, doing very short...

Not sure if this applies to all Mercedes cars, but the kickdown switch in my ML has to be really pushed down on until it 'clicks' down. Is this normal? or should it press down smoothly? A friend has an SL280 and he said his is silent and can bearly feel it being pressed. Andy

can anyone pls tell me wat does a kickdown do??and is there a difference between ignitor and ignition module and ignition coil??

I have recently acquired an ML270. The kickdown doesn't work and it seems a bit slow unless I put my foot down quite a way - I suppose this may be normal as seems to go well with a fair bit of accelerator. I can't feel any extra resistance on the last bit of accelerator travel as I could with my...

anyone no about auto box on 350 sl? kick down has stopped working and there is no down shift when I accelerate. i also find that if i pull away quickly from a junction then it will up shift too early and then have to down shift to keep the acceleration going. i dant have a problem if i...

Hi All This weekend our 52 plate E270CDI seems to have developed a problem with acceleration above 2000rpm. Basically the car engages top gear and won't kickdown when you put the pedal to the floor. This problem seems to be intermittent as it was fine yesterday, but today the issue has come...

Hi Guys, This is my first post in the forum. I have recently acquired a 1993 W124 220E. I got it from my father in law, it needs some work which I am starting to get to. There is a problem with the transmission, it pulls off perfectly but then proceeds to shift directly into 4th gear and...

My 130,000 mile E320 is suffering from no kick-down most of the time. If I stop and switch off, the kick-down may come back but when I floor the throttle, there's a huge cloud of black smoke. After some more running, only a few miles, I lose the kick-down again. A scanner read out gave 'Torque...

I have a serious problem. When you give the car a big peddle to the mettle kickdown at 3000 revs EPC light comes on and engine loses all power until finally dies. (No power steering is scary!!) Car runs perfectly on normal driving and normal kickdown, only when full throttle is applied...

Hello again, W210 E320CDI runs smoothly but wont rev above 3000rpm in Tip or in N, also no kickdown when making the accelerator switch. Read alot of threads on the MAF sensor but the idle is smooth and disconnecting it has no effect, does this rule it out or could it still cause these...

Hello MBClub UK, I've recently been given by my father-in-law a C230 Kompressor. The car is in really good condition and has covered 140k with a full Mercedes-Benz service history, but — and there's always a but — the kickdown on the automatic gearbox doesn't work (this is the reason he gave me...

hi all when kicking down how far should the engine rev up before it changes back up a gear the cars a 97 c200 only i used kick down to pull on to a duel carrigeway whick was on a hill and it reved to 4500 then i left my foot off the gas a bit and it changed up is this normal i know they rev to...

Hi all members, For some weeks now and the car kick down isn't working,I have to put the pedel to the metal (as they say) to accelerate and still not as before. At first I thought some vacuum leak in the gear box,but after some checks I discovered the kick down cable is broken. I went to the...

Hi All, i have an ML 270 (04), auto tip gearbox, i have no kickdown, revs to about 2500, i can manually go up and down the box, but no acceleration. when i first realised played with cruise & limiter etc, problem went for a while, then came back. Garage suggested disconnecting battery to...

My 97 E420 esatate flies but I notice that on hard kickdown there is a delay of about a second or two before it really shifts - is this normal? I have removed one cat due to breakage is this the cause? Thanks

Hi Guys I have a w203 C270 CDI, now I'm not sure about petrol cars but on my diesel when i floor it and hit the click and car kicks down it doesn't seem as quick as when i floor it and leave it before the click. I was doin about *cough100cough* and I put my foot to the floor and hit the...

I have been to see a C32 today but am a bit dubious...it seems to drive well under 'normal' conditions, but when kicked down hard it loses drive - just free-wheels. If you stop, it will simply drive again as if nothing had happened. I am concerned that this might be a nasty fault, but suspect...

I've got a slight problem with the kickdown switch on my CLK. I've found that to get a "full" kickdown using the switch I have to really stamp on the pedal. At first I thought that the CLK 320 was just a bit different to my old C250 in the way it behaved as if you floor the pedal it will...