I'm assuming you bought it with books and records? If not, you need to do a 60k service, include a trans fluid and filter change in that, and I'm also wondering, could a faulty AMM cause the trans action? When they would fail in my VWs, strange things would happen, like trans not shifting properly. More of a slow, silent death in my 202.......

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former: 83 300D, 97 C230, 93 400E

current: 08 C300 Luxury , 92 500SL

No books or records. I did the 60k and the tranny fluid and filter change. It is still acting up and I am to the point of hoping someone hits me and totals out the f*cking car cause I am tired of getting no where with the dealership, and I am not about to spend a fortune looking for the problem. I am over the car after only having it for a little over 2 weeks. Will probably trade it in for something cheap and disposable after new years.

As with the previous posts I stated that I was having a little jump in transmission, a lack in power, rough idle and just a ****ty performance in my car. Yesterday I had a few bucks on me and I decided to stop by the autoparts and pick up some cheap $11 puralator(sp?) air filters for my car. I decided to put them on at around 10pm will dressed in dress clothes to head to the bar. Took all of about 10 mins. They seemed dirty and had alot of dirt and sand in the filterboxes. I got everything cleaned up and put the thing back together. When i started the car I was shocked. The RPM gauge no longer twitched and the car sounded quieter. Once on the road that is where I noticed the transmission no longer jumped or shifted strange, the car has much more power, and my gas mileage is much better. I also noticed this evening leaving work there was no surging that normally occured when i would first take off after leaving the car sitting for 10hrs. Could this be possible that it was only clogged air filters? Cause it has been about 24 hours and still none of the problems from the original post have surfaced. Could the moving around of the MB engine cover/air filter have knocked dirt out of the MAF???

The best way to check the results would be to install the old filters and see if the problem returns. For the sake of your wallet, I hope the problem is really fixed. One thing bothers me a little, though. If the air filters were restrictive to the point that they affected engine performance, the fuel trim numbers should have been off the map!!! Unless of course, the engine was getting air someplace else. Either way, drive it for awhile and let us know how it works out.

Problem returned this afternoon but not nearly as bad as it was before. I noticed that it is not as bad this time but it is still there.