Hello All,

I picked up 2002 W210 E320 Wagon (RWD) about two months ago with 77K miles on it. The car is clean and till now has been awesome and smooth. Some of the recent maintenance items I've performed on her are oil change, air filter, fuel filter, and rear diff fluid change. Haven't gotten to the tran fluid just yet, but it's coming up very soon.

So today I drove her to work and had no issues. At mid day headed out to lunch and drove fine. Then getting ready to go home around 5:30PM and the car has electric power, but won't start. I can barely even hear a click when I turn the ignition. I kept trying and then took the key out and put it back in a couple of times and it magically just started. Thank goodness! Then I put the car in reverse backed out of my parking spot, and put it in drive, but felt a hard lunge forward. Almost like I had my foot on the gas a little and threw it in drive (but I didn't). Got out of the parking lot and realized this thing is really not going anywhere. It won't get out of 2nd (i think it was). Drove it 4 miles home like that on the shoulder taking it easy. What the heck!!!!! I've searched and there are all sorts of theories. Acceleration sensor, conductor plate, battery, fluid in the TCU, on and on.... I'm trying to figure out if anyone has had the same exact scenario as i have. Oh and no CEL's! I went through the on board system check and found the battery voltage to be 13.5V, so battery looks okay, right? Also, went for a drive later this evening and everything worked like a charm! Everything! Shall I throw on a code checker even though there's no CEL? I don't have one and will have to get one.

Any other suggestions you guys might have? Please any suggestions would be appreciated!

Thank you much!
Anees Shafi

 

Plutoe - appreciate you contributing absolutely nothing to post. If I sound ignorant about these cars, then you didn't really educate me much at all. Keep it up.