Matt's Dad
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I received a call from my Wife yesterday to say that our E320 CDI W211 was stuck at the school carpark, as she had selected reverse, but there wasn't any drive to the wheels.
I went and had a look, and as it had been switched off for a while. I started it, put it into reverse and it all worked fine. I drove it home, and didn't get very far, until the revs started increasing and the power to the wheels was reducing - until there was no drive what so ever.
I don't get to drive the car much, but had noticed a few weeks ago it seemed to rev more when accelerating (using the torque, say from 60 mph upto 80 mph) the needle on the rev counter seemed to stay higher longer, with less acceleration than before............
..........now I know I should have changed the Valeo rad or fitted a seperate gearbox cooler before but since we have had the car I've always had a feeling the gearbox wasn't 100% right (we bought it about a year ago at 170,000 miles and have had the gearbox oil changed twice, as the first change showed it was way past due, car has now covered 200,000 miles) It sounds silly, but as I've worked through the other issues the car has had (cracked springs, steering rack replace, disks and pads replace, enging mounts replace etc. etc.) I thought it would be good to get a gearbox recon at somepoint as we don't plan on selling the car as it fits our needs perfectly - and was leaving the recon until last.......
So (after all my waffle) what is the best course of action now?? do I just book it into my Local MB stealer and give them the symptoms and see what they say?? or book into an indie?? or send to a place that just specializes in gearbox recon work??
Obviously it may not be the Valeo that has caused the problem - but after reading all the posts on here, it does indicate to a Glycol problem, and probably a Torque Converter issue.....
I'm based on the Norfolk/Suffolk border in East Anglia, but I don't mind taking the car further, if there is someone that can do a good job at a good price, and knows what they are doing, so hopefully we can have the car back fairly soon and working perfectly - so any recomendations will be appreciated
I went and had a look, and as it had been switched off for a while. I started it, put it into reverse and it all worked fine. I drove it home, and didn't get very far, until the revs started increasing and the power to the wheels was reducing - until there was no drive what so ever.
I don't get to drive the car much, but had noticed a few weeks ago it seemed to rev more when accelerating (using the torque, say from 60 mph upto 80 mph) the needle on the rev counter seemed to stay higher longer, with less acceleration than before............
..........now I know I should have changed the Valeo rad or fitted a seperate gearbox cooler before but since we have had the car I've always had a feeling the gearbox wasn't 100% right (we bought it about a year ago at 170,000 miles and have had the gearbox oil changed twice, as the first change showed it was way past due, car has now covered 200,000 miles) It sounds silly, but as I've worked through the other issues the car has had (cracked springs, steering rack replace, disks and pads replace, enging mounts replace etc. etc.) I thought it would be good to get a gearbox recon at somepoint as we don't plan on selling the car as it fits our needs perfectly - and was leaving the recon until last.......
So (after all my waffle) what is the best course of action now?? do I just book it into my Local MB stealer and give them the symptoms and see what they say?? or book into an indie?? or send to a place that just specializes in gearbox recon work??
Obviously it may not be the Valeo that has caused the problem - but after reading all the posts on here, it does indicate to a Glycol problem, and probably a Torque Converter issue.....
I'm based on the Norfolk/Suffolk border in East Anglia, but I don't mind taking the car further, if there is someone that can do a good job at a good price, and knows what they are doing, so hopefully we can have the car back fairly soon and working perfectly - so any recomendations will be appreciated
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