Well if it is a good car and you enjoy it and plan to keep it, why not look for a complete change out for a four speed manual. Lots of that being done on the diesel side, and would work as well for gas engine cars. In the last month, maybe going on two months two complete set ups to a manual transmission swap were listed in the "For Sale" part of the Forum. There are quite a few around and mostly they are found in rusted out 240D and some Euro 300D models.

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1983 Mercedes W123 240D 4 Speed 285,000 on the road with a 617 turbo, beautiful butter yellow, license plate # 83 240D INDIANA

2003 Jaguar Type X, AWD. beautiful, good mileage,
Mom's car, but I won't let her drive it!