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Thu 4 Sep 2008 23:50
1998 24 intermittent failure to move when in D or - Orwic
Hi everyone

C240 1998 model, 190K miles. Up to now fairly trouble free.

Coming home tonight (28 mile drive), stopped at lights. On green light I put foot down on gas, and car was very sluggish, reluctantly pulling away and didn't seem to shift. 2K revs and not moving that fast. Seemed to pull OK once over 40mph, though. Hard to tell 'cos traffic quite heavy.

Another 2 miles to home - but when I slowed to park in a space, forward drive failed - lever in drive but no forward motion when foot on gas! Put in reverse - same thing - just rolled foward (parked on slight downward slope).

I moved slector lever forward and backward - still no movement, but engine was reving OK - I didn't rev too hard as cars were in front and behind and I didn't want it to suddenly leap forwards.

Left it switched off for about 10 minutes - and it started working again! I parked it properly - forward and reverse working fine - But of course I don't really want to drive it in case it happens half way along the A2...

Any idea what's wrong (and how much this is going to cost???)

Any feedback gratefully received. Of course I'll be calling my specialist first thing - what else can I do? But some ideas of what might be the problem would be helpful (even including change that car!!)

Thanks

Richard

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Fri 5 Sep 2008 00:32
1998 24 intermittent failure to move when in D or - Screwloose

Either it's losing fluid, or there's a electronic/solenoid fault.

It is possible to access fault-codes and data from the transmission ECU.

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