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Will a CLK230 gearbox give me trouble?

I want to buy a second hand Mercedes-Benz CLK 230 Kompressor with tiptonic gear box (2002).

It's done 126,000 miles.

I understand that IF the gear box goes I'm looking at a large bill but do you know of any known problems with this make and model?

Asked on 1 May 2013 by russ100music

Answered by Honest John
'Tiptronic' refers to the fact that you can select gears manually. It's a torque converter transmission, generally reliable, but at this age could probably do with a change of automatic transmission fluid by a member of www.fedauto.co.uk This has to be done by dialysis at precisely the right temperature and pressure so is not a DIY or small garage job.

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