InsideInsurance
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I have bought my first Mercedes and my first auto in the form of an SL350 (2013). Generally its all good after the first few user errors were sorted out but unfortunately my local MB garage has gave me wrong advice on all of these so far (eg the automatic application of the parking break if car is turned off in Hold, they claimed this didnt happen and the manual was wrong) so I hoped that you guys may be more knowledgeable.
The one outstanding thing, if I "floor it", and go through the first point of resistance on the accelerator the rev counter immediately jumps up and continues to rapidly go up but the vehicle doesnt accelerate significantly at all until after about 1.5 seconds or so when the rev counter is near the red line at which point the car accelerates rapidly.
The lag between going through the kickdown point and it actually putting the power down to the road doesnt seem normal to me but wondered if I am doing something wrong or not?
The one outstanding thing, if I "floor it", and go through the first point of resistance on the accelerator the rev counter immediately jumps up and continues to rapidly go up but the vehicle doesnt accelerate significantly at all until after about 1.5 seconds or so when the rev counter is near the red line at which point the car accelerates rapidly.
The lag between going through the kickdown point and it actually putting the power down to the road doesnt seem normal to me but wondered if I am doing something wrong or not?