This post is regarding the issue in the W212 2010 E63 AMG where the Park button does not engage despite being pressed, resulting in the car staying in the state it was in (Drive, Reverse, Neutral). This fix doesn't require any special tools and takes about 20 minutes. The shifter assembly costs about $600 online, but I expect dealers probably want $1500 for the entire job.

AFAIK, the car only shifts to Park if you 1) turn off the engine, or 2) pump the break to "Hold" and open the door. I nearly fell out of the car once when I stopped in our neighborhood street to say high to my neighbor and the car kept rolling. This is dangerous for a lot of reasons, but especially if you valet or let someone who isn't familiar with this drive the car. I often have my kids strapped to car seats in the back, and we're often out in higher elevations, so I didn't feel comfortable leaving this issue, which started about 6 months to a year ago and has perpetually gotten worse.

The fix as stated by PeterUbers and craig309 is to purchase part# A 212 267 01 00. A good price new is something under $600 (its $566 right now here). The original part number that came out of my car is a older part # A 212 267 03 24, which is now obsoleted and superceded according to the new part page ("Replaces:212-267-03-24"). Not everyone knows this but electronic parts CANNOT be returned. Kinda sucks. One service department told me this often happens if coffee or food is dropped onto the shifter, but I'm totally skeptical and believe this is a faulty electrical circuit. It doesn't come with the knob, so you can either reuse the existing one or replace with the low profile updated shift knob.

Once you get the new part you'll notice it is made up of a couple of difference assemblies. There is a top unit made by ZF Electronics that easily pops off of the lower shifter assembly, which has the screw hole anchors as well as the ribbon connector.


There is a Youtube video that shows you exactly how to do this replacement although it is for a different issue (replaces the rotary wheel knob, also for a right hand car!). Check it out here:

Basically the steps are:
Open the ashtray
From the ashtray/front side, pop up the plastic panel covering the shifter and AMG/suspension buttons, lay it on its button-side, ensuring the connectors are not affected
Use a hex wrench to remove 4 screws holding down the shifter
Use a slightly smaller hex wrench to remove 2 screws between the shifter and rotary dial that holds an anchor point that the shifter attaches to, set the metal anchor aside until reassembly
Remove the cable ribbon from the bottom of the shifter

For a number of reasons I decided to take my unit apart and see if it was just the top circuit assembly or the entire unit that is not shifting the car to park , so I decided to pull the shift knob off of my existing unit.

If you are interested in how to remove the shift knob, DO NOT just yank the knob up as hard as you can while the shifter is attached to the car. If you see how the shifter is attached you'll notice the multiple stress points that can also yield, in addition to the knob. The way I did it was I put the shifter unit on carpeted floor, and pulled up on the knob while I held it in place with my feet. I'm cool, I know. Anyway if you do this carefully you should be able to reuse your shifter without any issues.

So I wanted to troubleshoot this issue a little more so I decided to swap the Park/LED circuit unit from the new to the old shifter to see if it works.

Here's the top unit (it looks a little funny because I had already popped the top cover off:



Here it is totally disassembled. The white component is the R-N-D cover upside down:


So there is absolutely no damage (physical, water, discoloration, anything), to the circuit. The pins are all in great shape.However, I replaced the top assembly only with my existing shifter unit and the car was parking without any issue.

So I am guessing if you have this issue and have access to a crashed car that has the updated assembly, you could probably get away with just replacing the Park circuit. Its really unfortunate MB makes you pay $600 to replace a $5 circuit.

 

 

Do after 9 yrs and 70000 miles my 2012 e63 has started to act up with this problem. It seems every other drive it won't shift.

Is there an updated part number because I was having trouble with the above numbers to find the part. Thanks

 

worked for me

 

https://www.mboemparts.com/oem-parts...ver-2122670100

yeah weird because on this dealers site it says it doesnt fit.

 

Thank you, searched everywhere for a shifter replacement video & could not find one.

 

Wait a minute, so it's not an electrical issue ? soldering etc ? you must replace the whole circuit ? I was planning to send it out to an specialist in electronics to look for the problem in the circuit. I was thinking its a resistor or something like that .

 

OMG this is crazy, nobody has this part !!!
I spoke with MB of Hoffman Estates Illinois and there are none in Illinois and cannot be ordered from Germany.
The parts guy was able to find some at MB Plano TX, MB El Paso TX and MB Sacramento CA. I called all 3 of them and each has one left and not willing to sell it !!!!!!!!!!!!!! wtf!!!!
Does anyone know if this can be actually repaired ? Like i mentioned above, I would send it to a electronics specialist but if its not repairable then what are the options ?
I did some online digging however and found one or two from Latvia, but sending $1000 and not getting the part is not worth risking.
Any toughs ?

 

Check out the sticky - couple links to places for hard to source parts like exoparts

https://mbworld.org/forums/w212-amg/...ml#post8995794

https://woxparts.com/

 

solution is here post 12:
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