Having intermittant transmission shifting problems. Threw a P0700 Transmission Control System code twice in the past month. Did a search and never seemed to find the resolution to the problem although there have been several cases of the same code. What was the fix?

Thanks.

Len
'99 E300TD 82,000 miles

P0700 is a transmission slippage code, since you have an early 722.6 transmission, do you know if any updates were done to the transmission and or transmission control module. Call a dealer, let them do a vehicle master inquiry for any recall or service bulletins for your car.



Possibilities are a broken pressure regulator spring, common in the early VB. Soft ware updates to the control module and VB changes were done to improve slippage and shift complaints.

P0 700 is a generic transmission code! Can mean any of 65 faults! THE only way to find out for sure is to have the trans computer scanned for codes!

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Thanks. Does the transmission computer retain the faults even if the check engine light is reset? Is this a dealer only situation that has to be read via the 38 pin connector in the fuse box?

Len

Use SDS to read the trans codes...

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