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Originally Posted by anghrist
Sweet! That's all it is?
I've just left mine in 'W'. Now I know how to fix this annoyance. This isn't really a big problem for me and doesn't happen often. Just wile in parking lots and in 'S' mode and only every third blue moon.
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Strictly going by my personal experience driving mine for 14-years/129K miles:
It really depends on how you are driving the car THROUGH YOUR THROTTLE-CONTROL at those low parking lots speeds. I would say that the car is acting totally normally, reacting as to how it is being driven. At least that's what my car has evidenced since day one of owning it from new. I may be totally wrong on the 5-speed AT being electronically shift-controlled, so that may be why it seems to act up to some, when it's acting as designed. About the
W - I have read that some claim much higher mpg returns using
W mode too, (color me as very
0_o skeptical as to increased mpg) as well as getting rid of the OCCASIONAL/"SOMETIMES" low-speed 'whams' of 1st gear kicking-in - all contingent as to how the driver is throttling it.
As far as maintenance goes with the dipstickless '99 E300TD, I changed-out the fluid @ 100K miles, as well as replacing the sending unit that was making a corner of the pan start weeping trans fluid. If there is no fluid loss detected visually (on the ground or wet trans. assy.) then you have to rely on the trans being filled to it's correct, full level - by whoever changed it last.
It's been a bulletproof trans, just as all the MB AT trans have been in all our MB diesels dating back to '69. I'm very pleased with being able to actually feel how it shifts in this '99.