PeteV
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- Your Mercedes
- 1999 W202 CDI 220 T
Anyone have an idea why my 1998 C220 CDI auto estate keeps deciding to go into a kind of limp-home mode?
Knocking about it is just fine... kicks down and goes like it should. But get it on a long steady run (e.g. my recent motorway journey to Devon) and after a while I'll notice it's not responding to imputs from the cruise control stalk as usual. Off cruise it does pick up speed but only very slowly and doesn't respond to kick-down at all. Continuing on normal roads and it'll move off only steadily and changes up around 2.5-3k revs no matter what I do to the gas pedal. Stop it and restart immediately makes no deffence at all. However, stopping and restarting after 15-20 seconds seems to sort it, especially if driven off with 'enthusiasm'. B.T.W. when last checked, I understand the fault codes didn't show anything of any note....... What gives...??!!??
Knocking about it is just fine... kicks down and goes like it should. But get it on a long steady run (e.g. my recent motorway journey to Devon) and after a while I'll notice it's not responding to imputs from the cruise control stalk as usual. Off cruise it does pick up speed but only very slowly and doesn't respond to kick-down at all. Continuing on normal roads and it'll move off only steadily and changes up around 2.5-3k revs no matter what I do to the gas pedal. Stop it and restart immediately makes no deffence at all. However, stopping and restarting after 15-20 seconds seems to sort it, especially if driven off with 'enthusiasm'. B.T.W. when last checked, I understand the fault codes didn't show anything of any note....... What gives...??!!??