This happened to me once in my 1982 240D .

I put the shift lever in "[B]S[B]" and drove it home in third gear .

Just don't pin the throttle and zoom it home .

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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