I just bought a 2001 S600 with the distronic. I know this is a new system but I thought I would ask here anyway. On my drive home with the car the distronic would dis-engage and the display would say "external malfunction". Most of the time it functioned flawlessly. When the "malfunction" would occur it was always with nothing in front of the car for a great distance. Dealer inspection revealed no stored fault codes. I was just wondering if anybody out there has had a similar experience.

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