Neepneep
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2006 W203 C180 Kompressor Estate (2nd owner, bought at 60k now 105k)
Gearbox.... there's a tinny vibration in centre console. Not always. Started near 90k miles and usually only comes if car has done 20+ miles in that day. I've been ignoring as sometimes never happens. When it does happen, once you reduce from say 20mph or below - you will hear the tinny sound change into a rusty kind of spinning, it will be SLOWING, wih the car. Noise/vibrations of gearbox then stop.
TODAY, my shifter stuck in P/R after a 5 point turn. Would not go into N (or D). Turned key off/on for while done everything. Friend wobbled my car as I wobbled gear stick and it done it went through R to P and drove home.
This PRIOR happened ONCE before 3mths ago. That time, car was parked first (3 or 5 point turn also) after 30mile long drive. Parked 1hr. Went to leave and car wouldn't come out of P. Wobbled and swore at it for 10mins and it worked, went into R, and drove off in D.
Now TODAY when it jammed, as said, my friend wobbled my car using high tech wobbling skills. Got the car home, tried the gearstick around for 30mins. Now wouldn't go from N into R (or P). Only have D and N. Key fob stuck in. I've left in N, engine off,. I have taken backup metal key out of "key fob" and secured car as locked. Before tht I drove around for in D, changing gears manually + auto, all fine. Just every time I stop and go for R/P it just will not move across. Taptronic DOES work when driving. Automatic changes are nippy.
I'VE OPENED IT UP also..
My leather/plastic gearstick cover (console) has been loose since bought. Couple of plastic clips inside had snapped where they meet centre console piece. Perhaps previously opened? Had a go at pulling out the shifter cover, unplugged (and later re-plugged + tested) the 2 red cables within the gear selector unit. (Not big white TCU plug).
Hoovered inside. Evidence inside agreeing to some spilled liquid seeped via side of console but wiped fast at the time.
Turned engine back on and some "computer" type noises in dash or somewhere in the car that don't usually happen.
Also took out centre console and found backup shifter release tab. It seems to work by pushing back IN a piece of metal that is already in when in Park I assume.
Now I am stuck in Drive, Neutral. Trying to move into R.
The shifter release tab inside the moduel, usses a pivoting plastic piece that you push - and it pushes almost a bullet in towards the gear box.
These "bullets" are already "inside" at D or N. When I move from N to R, that bullet them wants to come out. I imagine that bullet (release catch) is only for escaping park to tow in N. I don't think it helps this problem of stuck in D/N.
Other things I've see online:
Quite common for the electro-plate to fail with sensor faults.
Quite common for the pilot bush connector to allow atf to travel up the loom to the ecu and kill it
Gearbox.... there's a tinny vibration in centre console. Not always. Started near 90k miles and usually only comes if car has done 20+ miles in that day. I've been ignoring as sometimes never happens. When it does happen, once you reduce from say 20mph or below - you will hear the tinny sound change into a rusty kind of spinning, it will be SLOWING, wih the car. Noise/vibrations of gearbox then stop.
TODAY, my shifter stuck in P/R after a 5 point turn. Would not go into N (or D). Turned key off/on for while done everything. Friend wobbled my car as I wobbled gear stick and it done it went through R to P and drove home.
This PRIOR happened ONCE before 3mths ago. That time, car was parked first (3 or 5 point turn also) after 30mile long drive. Parked 1hr. Went to leave and car wouldn't come out of P. Wobbled and swore at it for 10mins and it worked, went into R, and drove off in D.
Now TODAY when it jammed, as said, my friend wobbled my car using high tech wobbling skills. Got the car home, tried the gearstick around for 30mins. Now wouldn't go from N into R (or P). Only have D and N. Key fob stuck in. I've left in N, engine off,. I have taken backup metal key out of "key fob" and secured car as locked. Before tht I drove around for in D, changing gears manually + auto, all fine. Just every time I stop and go for R/P it just will not move across. Taptronic DOES work when driving. Automatic changes are nippy.
I'VE OPENED IT UP also..
My leather/plastic gearstick cover (console) has been loose since bought. Couple of plastic clips inside had snapped where they meet centre console piece. Perhaps previously opened? Had a go at pulling out the shifter cover, unplugged (and later re-plugged + tested) the 2 red cables within the gear selector unit. (Not big white TCU plug).
Hoovered inside. Evidence inside agreeing to some spilled liquid seeped via side of console but wiped fast at the time.
Turned engine back on and some "computer" type noises in dash or somewhere in the car that don't usually happen.
Also took out centre console and found backup shifter release tab. It seems to work by pushing back IN a piece of metal that is already in when in Park I assume.
Now I am stuck in Drive, Neutral. Trying to move into R.
The shifter release tab inside the moduel, usses a pivoting plastic piece that you push - and it pushes almost a bullet in towards the gear box.
These "bullets" are already "inside" at D or N. When I move from N to R, that bullet them wants to come out. I imagine that bullet (release catch) is only for escaping park to tow in N. I don't think it helps this problem of stuck in D/N.
Other things I've see online:
- Defective Brake Light Switch
- Low Voltage or Dead Battery
- Spilled Liquid on the shifter assembly
- Defective shift interlock solenoid
- Faulty Engine Control Unit (ECU) or Transmission Control Unit (TCU)
- Transmission Shift Cable Broken or Shift Rod Bent / Loose
- Plates
Quite common for the electro-plate to fail with sensor faults.
Quite common for the pilot bush connector to allow atf to travel up the loom to the ecu and kill it
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