Hi. There's an 87 300SDL I'm thinking about buying....I'll be seeing it in person this Friday. The owner has been very open and forthcoming about the car, which I very much appreciate.

The tranny has only 80k miles on it (car has 270k). The tranny is an MB remanufactured unit. The symptom is as follows: under moderate acceleration, there is a late 1-2 shift followed by a quick 2-3 shift; however, under hard acceleration the shifts are fine. As I don't know a lot about transmissions, I don't know how serious this is and what the potential causes might be. In my view, an MB reman unit with only 80k should be operating perfectly.

The owner has not changed the fluid and filter in 30-40k miles, so that clearly needs to be done. And he removed the ALDA some time ago, although the shifting symptom appeared only about a month ago.

Any ideas?

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