$3500 while it’s shifting right! I’ll even get the interior detailed! --FT Sent from iPhone
> On Mar 12, 2021, at 3:53 AM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Wanna sell it? > > > Rick > > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Sent: March 11, 2021 5:58 PM > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Cc: buggeredbenzm...@gmail.com > Subject: [MBZ] Pleasantly weird — $900E500 in limp mode > > I started the car up this evening to charge the battery and aired up the > tars. I fooled around with the radio While I was sitting there and found a > Logic7 setting. It has a Harmon Kardon system. WOW does it sound good. My > 05E320 wagon does not have this and it sounds pretty good but this car is > wayyyyy better. > > So anyway I thought why not take it out just to warm it up and get the fluids > circulating. Going out the driveway I noticed it was shifting ok. Hmmmm. I > did some manual shifting 1-7 and it was shifting ok still. Hmmmm. Got out on > the road, stomped it, it kicked down into first and ran like a scalded rat > shifting fine up to 80 or so which was maybe 4th gear. Backed off and it > shifted ok again. Did a little more enthusiastic motoring and it was shifting > fine. Hmmmmm. > > So this makes me think there might just be some loose connector somewhere > that is throwing the thing into limp mode as it did for the PO. Or some other > fault that is causing that to happen. The CEL is on, when I checked it before > there were a coupla faults in the airmatic and something else I don’t recall, > nothing serious. I’ll check it again tomorrow in the daylight. > > I drove it twice before I brought it home, the second time after I bought it > I thought it was shifting fine. Drove it once after I dragged it home and it > was limping. > > Wouldn’t it be something if it is just some minor thing. Really nice (but > needs a good interior detailing) car $900. Oh, and this thing is WOWWOWOW! > when you mash the go pedal. I’m liking it. I’m not sure I want to drive it > any distance if it decides to kakk again, don’t have plates on it either. > > Hmmmmm.... > > --FT > Sent from iPhone > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
