New E250 - nice car, dangerous throttle delay

[r129sl]

Deva Link said:

GTIR said:

Deva Link said:

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It's the later cars, particularly the Blue Efficiency models, which are causing problems.

Have you ever had the ATF changed in your car? It's supposed to have a one-off change at 37,500 miles (which would have been at about 6mths old if your mileage has been linear!) but there's an opinion that it's worth doing regularly.

Yes, had it done at the correct mileage and again under warranty just before it ran out in March this year.

Fair enough. I can't recall seeing that kind of "fault" mentioned. Some early W204 (latest C Class) C220CDi owners have had torque convertor issues.
http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/showthread.php?t...

Your problem might be to do with the torque convertor lock-up clutch. If it's done 200K though it's probably best to leave well alone.

It was the warranty that "ran out" in March, surely, not the ATF?

[GTIR]

r129sl said:

Deva Link said:

GTIR said:

Deva Link said:

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It's the later cars, particularly the Blue Efficiency models, which are causing problems.

Have you ever had the ATF changed in your car? It's supposed to have a one-off change at 37,500 miles (which would have been at about 6mths old if your mileage has been linear!) but there's an opinion that it's worth doing regularly.

Yes, had it done at the correct mileage and again under warranty just before it ran out in March this year.

Fair enough. I can't recall seeing that kind of "fault" mentioned. Some early W204 (latest C Class) C220CDi owners have had torque convertor issues.
http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/showthread.php?t...

Your problem might be to do with the torque convertor lock-up clutch. If it's done 200K though it's probably best to leave well alone.

It was the warranty that "ran out" in March, surely, not the ATF?

Yes, I'm just saying I pretended it was a problem so I'd get the ATF and filter changed under warrenty for freeeee.