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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 09:21 PM
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Strange shifter issue, any ideas?

Automatic 92 300e. The Shifter has always been kinda lose and ive noticed that during cold weather I have to put it into neutral to start it. During hot days it works fine starting the car in park. I'm thinking I need to just get the shifter tightened... Has anyone heared or have had this issue?
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 10:12 PM
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Check under the car and make sure the gear change linkage is all tight.
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Cryof
Automatic 92 300e. The Shifter has always been kinda lose and ive noticed that during cold weather I have to put it into neutral to start it. During hot days it works fine starting the car in park. I'm thinking I need to just get the shifter tightened... Has anyone heared or have had this issue?
it's a common issue. you need to replace the hard plastic shifter bushings.


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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 10:41 AM
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it's a common issue. you need to replace the hard plastic shifter bushings.


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When you say bushings are you refering to the whole shifter unit minus the shifter knob?
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Cryof
When you say bushings are you refering to the whole shifter unit minus the shifter knob?
they're visible from under the car. the shifter knob need not be removed.

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Old Mar 20, 2010 | 05:09 PM
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thank you arno, I'll be looking into this
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Old Mar 28, 2010 | 06:38 PM
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so what about the part number, because I have never work on this compartment, and does it call "shifter linkage bushing"?
thanks
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Old Mar 28, 2010 | 07:03 PM
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I don't know the part numbers, but here is the item number for buymbparts.biz
|Shift Linkage Bushing x2
|Part Numbers Price
|W0133-1643678

|Shift Linkage Clip x2
|Part Numbers Price
|W0133-1643612
http://www.buymbparts.biz/
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Old Mar 28, 2010 | 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Saijin_Naib
I don't know the part numbers, but here is the item number for buymbparts.biz
|Shift Linkage Bushing x2
|Part Numbers Price
|W0133-1643678

|Shift Linkage Clip x2
|Part Numbers Price
|W0133-1643612
http://www.buymbparts.biz/
thank you,
does it go different for different years, I mean , over here: http://www.partsgeek.com/catalog/199...e_bushing.html , they have two, one OE mercedes and one Fedi bilstein as on the link you gave me , they look a bit different, does they fit the same?
thank you
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Old Mar 28, 2010 | 09:14 PM
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The OES one is for the shifter bushing at the shift knob inside the car.

The Febi one is for the shifter linkage at the transmission.

Or, that is how I believe it to be. I have the OES one on my shifter. Never saw the transmission one.
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Old Mar 28, 2010 | 09:24 PM
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You are correct. I just put a new shifter bushing on my 300TE's since it was out....It was completely missing.

There are two Febi one's. One below the shifter, accessible UNDER the car and the other one on the bracket that connects to the transmission itself.

A little tricky to make fit, so soak it in boiling water first to make it easy on yourself.
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Old Mar 29, 2010 | 12:22 AM
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thank you, I will try to do it on my friend's W124,
Thank you very much guys for the advise
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