Turbo2

A few owners on here stated that they had a leak (transmission fluid I believe) and that MBUSA had put out a bulletin for this. Can someone please provide me with the number? I have already searched, thanks.

Lowell

Pit-Pony

Heck, I wanted your MR-2

..jack

Turbo2

Jack-
Heres an older picture of the car (with different rims), I want the car back too!

Anyone know the Bulletin #?

Thanks

Pit-Pony

How could you have sold that car without letting me know first? Who has it now. I have been looking for a perfect one for a long time

My 2001 had a tranny leak the first week I had it. The dealer wanted to fix the sealed tranny. I insisted it be replaced with a brand new one or he can keep the car.

He brought in a new one. The car was great after that. It's now gone and the 05 has not had that issue.

Is there really a bulletin on this?

mick1

if the transmission is gonna leak, when will the leak occur ? my car has over 3k miles now and I don't see no leak. thanks.

Turbo2

Pit-Pony-
Didn't know there was another MR2 fan on this board...if I had known you were interested, I would of told you. It was sold in May of '04, it was in pretty mint condition, only having 57K on the clock. I've got plenty of other pics of the car if you would like to see them.

Im pretty sure there is a bulletin on this.

mick1-
Not sure when the leak will occur, most owners experienced it early in mileage. I have not experienced the leak and I have close to 8K on my car, however its better to be safe then sorry, so when I go to have my car serviced I will make sure they address the issue.

However, we still need the bulletin #, thats the missing link, anyone?

Thanks

BruNo

the common tranny leak is only with the 2 O-Rings, its an easy 10-15minute replacement job. the leak is only visible if u take off the plastic underbody cover.

Turbo2

Bruno-
Thanks, I believe the service bulletin was for the O-rings. You don't have the # by any chance?

Outland

Its posted over at MBKlasse.

nlpamg

thanks, helpful as always.

I don't know if it'll help. The bulletin on MbKlasse isn't for 05's, but 02's.
http://www.mbklasse.com/forums/showt...n+service+leak

Turbo2

Outland and nlpamg-
Thanks for the info., can you provide the bulletin # for the people who aren't members of MBKlasse (such as me)?

Thanks again.

nlpamg

oh ****, my bad, I didn't realize that I was a member of mbklasse.

After reading this again, I realized that this probably isn't it... Sorry, I can't seem to find anything else.

Turbo2

nlpamg-
Thanks a lot! Not sure if this is what I was referring to, but at least its something to give the SA when I go in.

nlpamg

anytime. let me know what the SA tells you, I'm bringing in my car tomorrow as well.

dgwee

Mine leaked before the first service at 10,000km. Never occurred to me to ask them to replace the whole tranny because of this...
On hind side, should have done so because my leak was quite excessive - a large pool of transmission fluid on the garage floor. I didn't know when it started, but my car was about 4-months old on its first service.

Outland

Sign up over at MBKlasse. Its a great site. And big brother isn't watching you all the time either.

Outland

Sorry. I have a stick, so I didn't read it that intently.

jan ken po

Mine was at about 5k, took forever for them to order part...some eletrical pin that connects at the tranny. Leak was visible of garage floor. no service bullentin # though..sorry

Turbo2

jan ken po-
Thanks for the info., can you look on your service receipt and get the part number for the part that was replaced?

Thanks

jan ken po

Not anytime soon I can't. Had it a little too close to my "to be shredded" pile and think wifey did it away with it. I looked for it right before I typed my response and notice it wasn't where I left it, oooops. I plan on asking for another copy next time I take it in for service.

Turbo2

Thanks...however 12K from now might be a little late for me, and the rest of us! Let us know if you get the info.

Thanks again

mick1

you would think the mechanics would know about this problem, since it has occurred so frequently.

dgwee

Don't know about the US, but the mechanics here know about it. When I first brought my car in to complain about transmission jerkiness when it was 1-month old, the first thing they did was to look for transmission fluid leakage underneath the car...

When I asked them how could they expect a brand new car to leak, they kept quiet...

MBc230

I brought my car in for alignment at 3k miles the other week and mentioned the tranny plug leak issue to them to take a look at. They said that they were aware of tranny seal leak problem in the '05 c-class models for some time now but many of the current built c-classes already have the updated seals installed. They checked my car and said it had the updated seal (I got my car in November).

So you may wanna check with your dealership on that.

Turbo2

Ill have to, I got my car in May! Hopefully mines OK.

Thanks