Stevester 500E, thanks for sharing! Good to know. Im getting there and glad to know you solved this. I hit the jackpot with my $600. E320 finding it had a 2005 ETA installed by the dealer. I tore it all apart trying to diagnose a crazy fuel pump failure which was intermittent. I suspected the E-modules, the ETA and everything but fuel pumps which were both previously working fine, then BOTH failed within a week! Your car must be an ASR model. My transmission is trying to fail and here I have a bullet proof engine and $1000 worth of new parts and still looking at another $2000 repair to do the transmission. But hey, my self-leveling suspension works great.. Hope you found the ETA for a reasonable price..

Maybe you can find a deal on a good used transmission. Sometimes you can find a car being parted out with a fairly recent transmission rebuild.