CLK Rough Idle
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Joined: Jun 2003
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From: Irvine, CA
2000 CLK430
if it shakes in park or N, it's normal.
if it shakes in gear w/ your foot on the brake then u have a problem, even if the shakes is very small.
the most likely culprit is one or more spark plug wire(s) going bad. if you have some miles on your car i would recomend replacing them all. 16 for a v8 and 12 for a v6.
the other possibility are blown motor mounts or trans mounts but highly unlikely.
not a tech or anything just talking from exprience. had the same problem, took it to the dealer, they diag it as the no. 6 wire and replaced it and it went away. after a year and 1/2 the problem came back, just replaced all my wires myself and the shaking went away.
if it shakes in gear w/ your foot on the brake then u have a problem, even if the shakes is very small.
the most likely culprit is one or more spark plug wire(s) going bad. if you have some miles on your car i would recomend replacing them all. 16 for a v8 and 12 for a v6.
the other possibility are blown motor mounts or trans mounts but highly unlikely.
not a tech or anything just talking from exprience. had the same problem, took it to the dealer, they diag it as the no. 6 wire and replaced it and it went away. after a year and 1/2 the problem came back, just replaced all my wires myself and the shaking went away.
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no shake in gear but in park, it shakes nothing bad but not a calm idle. I've taken it to two dealers, both said it's normal and one did change motor mounts as precaution. when you changed the spark plug wires did the shake in park go away completely ? I only have 33k on the car
