Thread: FS: 1983 240D with Cold A/C in Orlando, FL -- Too expensive to ship it to me in WA.
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Old 09-06-2009, 02:34 PM
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OH MY HECK!
Have a lot of people been test driving it?

I wonder how far it would have gone before the tranny issue on a cross country trip.

I Can answer my own question. There's actually no way to know.

Sometimes long distance freeway driving won't trigger a first gear stuckage problem because it's almost all done in 4th gear. And vice a verse. Sometimes the extra heat generated by long distance freeway driving, especially climbing steep mountain grades, can trigger a problem that would not have shown up driving in town.

Could the problem with your car be caused by a broken kick down switch?
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