I found a decent 500E locally for a price I like so I drove it. Hm.. FUN! BUT, one thing kept me from buying today. When starting off (in each case I was pulling out of a turn) there was a weird shudder that I thought might have been the trans but... it also almost seemed like an engine stumble too. But off idle rolling there was not shudder or hesitation and the trans seemed to shift better than the 300E.

I told them to service the car and I'd come back on drive it again. They are doing that over the next two days. Does this sound like something that ASR could be doing and if so, maybe punching that button might reduce/eliminate this and verify that it's the ASR?

Just wondering. Because for the price, I could probably have the tranny rebuilt and still be at market price. Body is not perfect and it was filthy... so.. once it's cleaned up it might show it self to be a rat too. *shrug*

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