3ayg
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- Jul 17, 2015
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- Rotherham
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- w203 c220 cdi coupe & w124 230e - now 300D ;)
Hi everyone ive been using this forum for years for DIY and troubleshooting for my various MB's but never got round to signing up but now the time as I need to ask some questions of my own. I've recently bought a w210 e320 cdI and its giving me some grief... When I first bought the car it was in limp mode, wouldn't rev over 3k but everything else was fine after research on here I was confident that it was the MAF, replaced with a Pierberg one and problem solved car worked great but was a little underpowered and the exhaust gasses smelt a little strange. After more research I figured the cats were blocked as the car has 200k on the clock. Anyway de catted and used an injector cleaner and the car went like stink.
Then I come to go to work and the car was stuck in park now I was really starting to resent the thing but I have a sweet spot for the 210 even though it's got the bad era of mercs reputation, after messing around for 30mins trying all sorts it just suddenly released so I did more research and changed the brake switch, still no change I then read about the dreaded spilt drink so decided to strip the module down and see if there were any obvious signs of that.
Once I had the module out it was obvious someone had tried to hide something, the wood was bodged on with double sided tape on the "secret hole" that I believed to not work had been bodged open with a cut down pen a washer and some tape and figured the recent heat had melted the tape and the pen lifted leaving the selector in P as a temporary fix I though I'll open up the selector and remove what ever locks it into P as cash is tight at the minute, after my own "better bodge" the car worked great no problems at all for a few days but then the gears started acting funny, if I accelerated hard whilst cold it would slip into neutral between 3rd and 4th and sometimes slip and rev between 3rd and 4th I figured it may have bad fluid with that mileage it may have never been changed so I figured I'd use the other car until I could get round to an oil change.
Anyway needed to use it to transport the pooch a few miles and thought it won't hurt if I drive steady but the gearbox has now gone into limp mode... No kick down stuck in 2nd won't Rev past 3k etc.
Before I jump in with £££'s I want to diagnose the problem properly but would prefer not to drive far, can anyone recommend a specialist with STAR near me? And a rough idea of how much diagnostics should cost?
Sorry for the life story but I really like this car and want to get it sorted it's a good example of a w210 bodywork wise and I would really like to keep it around for years to come.
Thanks in advance
Then I come to go to work and the car was stuck in park now I was really starting to resent the thing but I have a sweet spot for the 210 even though it's got the bad era of mercs reputation, after messing around for 30mins trying all sorts it just suddenly released so I did more research and changed the brake switch, still no change I then read about the dreaded spilt drink so decided to strip the module down and see if there were any obvious signs of that.
Once I had the module out it was obvious someone had tried to hide something, the wood was bodged on with double sided tape on the "secret hole" that I believed to not work had been bodged open with a cut down pen a washer and some tape and figured the recent heat had melted the tape and the pen lifted leaving the selector in P as a temporary fix I though I'll open up the selector and remove what ever locks it into P as cash is tight at the minute, after my own "better bodge" the car worked great no problems at all for a few days but then the gears started acting funny, if I accelerated hard whilst cold it would slip into neutral between 3rd and 4th and sometimes slip and rev between 3rd and 4th I figured it may have bad fluid with that mileage it may have never been changed so I figured I'd use the other car until I could get round to an oil change.
Anyway needed to use it to transport the pooch a few miles and thought it won't hurt if I drive steady but the gearbox has now gone into limp mode... No kick down stuck in 2nd won't Rev past 3k etc.
Before I jump in with £££'s I want to diagnose the problem properly but would prefer not to drive far, can anyone recommend a specialist with STAR near me? And a rough idea of how much diagnostics should cost?
Sorry for the life story but I really like this car and want to get it sorted it's a good example of a w210 bodywork wise and I would really like to keep it around for years to come.
Thanks in advance