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Strange vibration when starting to accelerate
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2004 C240 4Matic
Strange vibration when starting to accelerate
I have had my C240 4Matic for 3 weeks now, just hit 70,000 miles and twice in the past two days, when I am accelerating from either a complete stop, or after I have started to accelerate more from 5-10 miles an hour, if I very slowly press on the accelerator, my car has a slight hesitation with the acceleration and as I give it more gas to accelerate, I have twice felt a strong vibration coming from the rear loud enough to make what I think may be my exhaust to rattle loudly, not sure if its the exhaust or not, but it sounds more of a rattle of something rubbing against something on the outside than an interior rattle, if that makes sense. Has anyone ever encountered this and if so what may be causing it?
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An update. The issue happened again. I know I have experienced this before. It's like when your driving a manual car and you start off in 3rd gear and not 1st. It happened tonight as I was pulling into a parking lot. I felt the transmission shift and when stepping on the gas the acelleration was off. I just got this car three weeks ago and now not happy.
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Could be blocked Cat Convertor or muffler baffles loose ? Have someone push gently on the throttle whilst you listen at the exhaust pipe end . A loud hissing denotes a blockage. Also give the exhaust a shake with a rag or glove to see if it is loose. Don't burn yourself.
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Check rear transmission mount, Cats for broken honeycomb (as said above), all exhaust hangers, make sure that a heat shield is not touching the propshaft, check flex discs on the propshaft, center propshaft bearing. Propshaft UJ, side shaft CV joints. (I have left out front propshaft & sideshaft CV joints because you are convinced that the problem is at the rear. Kardon had a similar problem - search for his thread)
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Check rear transmission mount, Cats for broken honeycomb (as said above), all exhaust hangers, make sure that a heat shield is not touching the propshaft, check flex discs on the propshaft, center propshaft bearing. Propshaft UJ, side shaft CV joints. (I have left out front propshaft & sideshaft CV joints because you are convinced that the problem is at the rear.
QUOTE=Glyn M Ruck;4757966]Kardon had a similar problem - search for his thread)[/QUOTE]
Is this the link?
https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...-50-70mph.html ?
My car drives fine at highway speeds, drove it 90 miles yesterday and very quiet at highway speeds. Took a nice 20 mile drive for lunch today with my mother-in-law and no problem either...
My problem only seems to happen usually as I accerate from a low speed, after I get to a higher speed it stops, and noticed a shift as I was pulling in a parking lot which sounded like it may have started the same problem, but I had to stop the car before I could accelerate to verify (ran out of pavement :-) )
I drove it a few times today and no problem its its very odd, its only happened twice over the past few days.
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If I was to guess - I would say rear transmission mount has collapsed.
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