DISTRONIC 2011 CL550
12-26-2014, 09:39 PM
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DISTRONIC 2011 CL550
The Distronic in my 2011 CL550 Disengages after approx 15 miles after being set for a speed. To recover I have to pull to the side of the road and restart the engine then re-engage the Distronic. It's good again for approx 15-20 miles. I did a two hundred mile run with the car and this happened every fifteen to twenty miles.
Anybody ever have this problem?
The sensor on the front of the car is clean as a whistle.
I disengaged all other items related to distronic like Attn Assist/lane keeping etc. No help there. My thought there was I would be, maybe, taking a load off the unit that controls the Distronic. Nope.
I believe the 'unit' is overheating most likely. IF I turn the climate control off, the Distronic will recover by itself in five/ten minutes and if I leave the climate control off I have driven fifty miles with no dropout of the cruise/distronic. Either that or the fans in the climate control are affecting the current to the Distronic unit, wherever that is.
Anybody ever have this problem?
The sensor on the front of the car is clean as a whistle.
I disengaged all other items related to distronic like Attn Assist/lane keeping etc. No help there. My thought there was I would be, maybe, taking a load off the unit that controls the Distronic. Nope.
I believe the 'unit' is overheating most likely. IF I turn the climate control off, the Distronic will recover by itself in five/ten minutes and if I leave the climate control off I have driven fifty miles with no dropout of the cruise/distronic. Either that or the fans in the climate control are affecting the current to the Distronic unit, wherever that is.
