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Old 03-24-2014, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by pawoSD View Post
My 300SD failed suddenly, it had 281k and one day I drove to the lake, parked, went to reverse from my parking spot and it lurched then had a whooshing noise, things went downhill from there...forward gears still worked, but reverse was very weak. Ended up finding pieces of the reverse band/clutch in the pan once I swapped it out for a good used one. (which has been installed for 42k+ with no issues)
If that happened to my car at the lake, I guess I would have just pushed it on in... LOL.

Yeah, definitely sounds like a MB thing. I have never heard of a transmission going all at once without warning, save on some of the 1990'ish-1993 Town Cars (and other RWD FMC cars those years) where some sort of cable or something can break and instantly ruin the transmission.
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