Hey as most of you now know Since it's been a while since I drove her. I was curious about how the car should shift. There is no slippage or lag but I have heard there is a pedal to shift to first under the gas. Is this true cause I don't see anything lol. Can anyone give me an example on how the car should shift from gear to gear. Any any tips on manually shifting with the floor shift knob. My thing is I just seems like the car want's a fith gear but there is not one.

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1971 280sel 108.19 Shes not the cutest but I still love her

make sure your in D and not 2nd gear, you should here it gear up three times. Drives and shifts better when you give it some gas. Don't grandma it around.

Im In drive for sure, It has a second 3rd and 4th gear, But does anyone know about the pedal for first I'm talking about is that only on certain chasis? Mine is a 108.19.

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1971 280sel 108.19 Shes not the cutest but I still love her

It's a switch, not a pedal. I'm not sure if your car is equipped with it, but a lot of the vintage cars start out in 2nd gear instead of first. Pushing the pedal all the way down engages the switch which causes it to down shift to 1st gear. If your car feels like it needs a fifth gear then you are either not shifting into top gear (count the gear changes as you pull away from a stop) or more likely you're driving an old car that is going to be seeing 4,000 rpm while you cruise down the highway.

Yeah I have counted all the gears are hitting, Just seems like its running at a high rpm in 4th. But no gauge to see.

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1971 280sel 108.19 Shes not the cutest but I still love her

Nik - Not sure which engine you have but with a 3.5 V8 at about 6000 RPM in 4th they should be doing about 120 MPH so at 60MPH half of that. The Benz design concept has (with a few exceptions) been smaller high revving engines that can run at high revs all day.

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Alastair from South Australia
1971 280 SE 3.5
1981 300D
1980 300D