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Old Aug 21, 2025 | 01:47 AM
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Burnout throwing gearbox out

Hi lads,

Have a 13 E63 AMG M157 engine RWD. On the weekend, i tried to do a standstill burnout for my mates wedding. Had ESP fully off and in manual mode.
​​​​​​every time the burnout would start and the shift into second would about to initiate the gearbox gear indicator on the cluster disappears and I have no more gear. Can't select any gear including reverse unless I turn the car off and on again.

tried doing a burnout twice and kept throwing the car out of gear.

im not sure if its the MCT transmissions not liking it, or I must be doing something wrong.
have anyone experienced this?
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Old Aug 21, 2025 | 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by CLS63amgs
Hi lads,

Have a 13 E63 AMG M157 engine RWD. On the weekend, i tried to do a standstill burnout for my mates wedding. Had ESP fully off and in manual mode.
​​​​​​every time the burnout would start and the shift into second would about to initiate the gearbox gear indicator on the cluster disappears and I have no more gear. Can't select any gear including reverse unless I turn the car off and on again.

tried doing a burnout twice and kept throwing the car out of gear.

im not sure if its the MCT transmissions not liking it, or I must be doing something wrong.
have anyone experienced this?
this is a MCT issue that is known it's a protection issue I believe nothing to really worry about, a TCU tune can mitigate this a bit
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Old Aug 21, 2025 | 09:22 AM
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I would simply restrict my associations to mates who are already married (lol).
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Old Aug 21, 2025 | 01:32 PM
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My CLS with factory TCU tune did this to me a few times as well. I think it had something to do with TQ limits?
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Old Aug 21, 2025 | 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Cammer88
My CLS with factory TCU tune did this to me a few times as well. I think it had something to do with TQ limits?
Yeah... it needs more torque out of the engine.

I know, but I just couldn't help myself.
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Old Aug 21, 2025 | 03:51 PM
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Have you try setting it to dyno mode since it completely disables all of the SRS, ESP functions?
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Old Aug 21, 2025 | 06:22 PM
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I would simply restrict my associations to mates who are already married (lol).
LOL!
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