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Originally Posted by DieselDood
Strange thing I forgot to mention is that if I leave the car parked for couple of days outside as I did, I was able to start it and drive into my garage just now with now problems. This has happened couple of times where I had left it for couple of days and started it up and drove around for couple of mins and the car behaved like - what transmission problem!. But after a few mins it was back to its old self again.
I checked the rocking back and forth with car parked on my garage floor and the car was normal. ie it did not go forward too much and back too much. I am dreading the next steps outlined by SL320 but I will see if I can crawl underneath.
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If the fluid is ok then I would next look at the conductor plate. I can definitely see a thermally induced failure in the connections or sensors there being a plausible cause. Something that would fail at temperature but when it cools down it returns.
Are you getting a Check Engine light and message? If so plug an OBDII reader in and see what the code is. If you have something in the P07xx series that is the transmission. The codes transmitted by OBDII are a very limited subset of what is available over the proprietary diagnostic system, so it may be good to get an indie to pull the data for you if you are getting a P07xx code.
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2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles)
2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles)
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