olszowa12

My transmission in is dead. Only 1st and 2nd gear work. When you shift into 3rd only the revs go up and that's it...

Left it at the dealership - they worked on it 4 hours today and can't diagnose the problem.

Any ideas?

BerBer63

Any recent WOTs, stop light to stop light action, burn-outs? actually don't answer this yet till the problem is fixed

alqamzi

WoooW thats bad.But am sure warranty will cover anything wrong.Hope everything get fixed.

olszowa12

No nothing! And what really bugs me

I was driving really really slow in C mode for about 120km and then i stopped to pick up my girlfriend. I turned the enigne off and after 5 minutes when I drove away again, the car started to jolt (is that the word?) when shifting from 1st to 2nd and 2nd to 3rd. After 40km the 3rd gear just died. No idea what caused it.

It is under warranty but it sucks to be without the car on Easter holiday...

miami1lt

^^^^How did the car go from 1st to 2nd in C mode? it starts in 2nd gear.

Sorry to hear that...that sucks so bad!

Savoy6

my transmission was doa from the vpc. my dealer got amg on the phone and they were able to walk them thru finding the problem. i think the dealer wound up replacing the valve bodies, tcu and reflashing the whole thing with a disk that amg sent them and I havent had any problems since.

olszowa12

I shifted down and up with the paddles to check what was going on and it got only worse every km i drove

olszowa12

Did you have the same problems? Gearbox choking while shifting up or no gears 3-7 at all?

How long did it take them to fix it?

Savoy6

mechanics noticed it while they were doing the pre delivery checks. I had to wait about a week but most of that was the parts hung up in customs. you shouldnt have that problem.

Boost Gomez

That's what you get for using C mode. Just kidding, hope everything checks out when you bring it into the dealer.

gsrjc

whoa... that is crazy.

dremorg

Damn! That is f'd up! Sorry to hear that my man. Hope they're able to fix it. I know it's hard to be without the beast for that long.

qaz393

wow, how many km does ur car have?

olszowa12

86ooo km. I bought the car in December 2008 and it had 3700km. So I drove 82ooo km in the last 16 months.

olszowa12

My car is up and running again

I picked it up this morning and everything's fine.

At the dealership they replaced the K1 Clutch - no idea what the K1 stands for (nothing to do with Kleeman)

The overall cost was about 3000 PLN ($1100) - fully covered MB under warranty.

qaz393

good to hear it. not too expensive tranny job IMO

MB_Forever

Glad they fixed the problem

dacatz

wow...they actually split open the tranny and change the k1 clutch.....that's cool...glad u got your car back!

Questions

I was told by some SA geeks that the transmission is a "sealed unit" and they will never open it up for service.

olszowa12

I don't know what to tell you. I left my car at the dealer, waited 3 days and picked it up. The report said that the K1 clutch has been replaced and since then I've driven 15'000km without any problems

SebringSilver

Wow, 82,000 km in just 16 months. I thought the warranty is only good for 80,000 km.

olszowa12

The European warranty is a bit different. I'm not sure but I believe my car had a two year warranty without mileage limits.

The warranty ended on 31 May 2010
And now after 19 months my car is showing 98'000km on the odometer. Hope nothing serious goes wrong before I get rid of it

sjhugh

Only 2 years.

Here it’s 3 years with unlimited kilometres.

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