first gear start
 

Has anyone installed the first gear start offered om ebay? Philip

Why not just do the 1st gear start manually, so you don't always start in first? Foot on brake, shift from D to 1 and back to D. Starts off in first gear and does all the work for you.

X2.

Folks on Benzworld are happy with this: http://www.fgsswitch.com/english/downloads_eng.html.

A quick and easy alternative is to wire a momentary switch in parallel with the B-switch on the shifter. When the car is at rest if you want a 1st-gear switch you briefly press the switch. No soldering to install -- remove the wood cover for the console to access the B-switch and shove a pair of wires into its connector. Tie-wrap each wire to the existing wire it is in parallel with so that it won't come out. On a 500SL I owned with non-functioning ASR I used the snow chain switch for the 1st-gear start.