Your safest bet would be to have the car inspected on a hoist(for linkage issues) and have the transmission codes read via SDS. Unless you know exactly what is wrong, driving it could be dangerous. In any event, if the transmission has totally failed, you are looking at $4-$5K and maybe the car isn't worth that much.

Have to ask - Has anyone spilled any liquids on the center console? That often causes the kind of irregular operation you describe.

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Good luck.






1998 E320 Wagon