Not to beat a dead horse, but I have a 94 e420 106000 miles exhibiting very unusual transmission woes. Part of the time it works just fine, then suddenly I will come to a stop and start to take off again and it slips very badly and just creep forward. Sometimes it will suddenly slam back into gear and go again just fine. Other times it will slip for some time but it has always ended up working fine again. When it is working ok it seems perfectly normal. I first thought it was the clutch packs or bands, but it seems to me that if that were the case it would never work correctly. Am I wrong?? Any real tranny pros that have seen anything like this?? The modulator would not affect take off would it? Any tranny tech like to weigh in on this?? I have found a used tranny out of a 24000 mile car for about $1000 but not sure I need to go this far.