I too love the tomato red Sedan .

Sorry to hear the CD's tranny is kaput, maybe time to teach your self how to tinker them back to life ? .

When my '82 240D's auto tranny stopped shifting into fourth gear I took it to a local guy I know and trust, said 'time for rebuild' and he called me back the next day, it was fixed and only $150 ~ I wasn't happy as it also leaked and used a pint of ATF every two weeks but I put another 100,000 miles on it before he rebuilt it during the engine rebuild so maybe there's some little thing you can do to help it work a bit longer.....

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better