06-24-2009, 12:27 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Lathrup Village, Michigan
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Originally Posted by pawoSD
Exactly. Even if I gently come to a stop then very gently take off, its already in first gear. The gassers drop down if you give a kick down, the diesels drop to 1st when you slow to a stop. ALL of our diesels do this. If it were true that the diesels start in 2nd, imagine a 240d automatic's performance.  |
I KNOW that my '75 300D did not start off in first. You had to engage the kickdown switch to get it down into 1st.
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Michael LaFleur
'05 E320 CDI - 86,000 miles
'86 300SDL - 360,000 miles
'85 300SD - 150,000 miles (sold)
'89 190D - 120,000 miles (sold)
'85 300SD - 317,000 miles (sold)
'98 ML320 - 270,000 miles (sold)
'75 300D - 170,000 miles (sold)
'83 Harley Davidson FLTC (Broken again) :-(
'61 Plymouth Valiant - 60k mikes
2004 Papillon (Oliver)
2005 Tzitzu (Griffon)
2009 Welsh Corgi (Buba)
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