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Old 12-18-2006, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by manny View Post
There should be a procedure, to take the transm. out of Park, in your owners manual.
The W220 doesn’t have an emergency release feature to get the transmission out of “PARK”. This is because the 220’s don’t have a steering column lock. The shifter is actually part of the Drive Authorization System (DAS), and it's the only thing preventing someone from dragging it onto a flatbed and hauling it away.



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Originally Posted by MB208 View Post
Its a common problem for the shifters on those 220 bodies to go bad. Unlike the ML you cannont change a brake switch to cure this problem, you have to replace the shifter.
True, the shifters on 220’s do seem to fail more frequently than on other MB’s, but I’ve resolved many problems like this with simply replacing the brake light switch.
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