[W126 Coupe] 7" of play in park

[FPecar4525 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/14/2009 5:15:05 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
blueridgemb at gmail.com writes:

Research  all you like, when I see a car rock that hard it doesn't leave me 
feeling warm  and fuzzy.

Have a day :-P
Jono
_FPecar4525 at aol.com_ (mailto:FPecar4525 at aol.com)  wrote:  
 
In a message dated 9/14/2009 4:15:12 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
_blueridgemb at gmail.com_ (mailto:blueridgemb at gmail.com)  writes:

For  S&G's I just took my 560 AMG 32V, 500SL, C36 and 300E AMG which were  
all stored in the shop in neutral w/ the parking brake on..
Took the  brake off and put the cars in park, proceeded to Rock them back 
as hard as  I could.  The MOST I could get out of any car was about 4 inches 
and  that was the C36 which we just picked up the other day w/ 115K on the  
clock.

Jonathan

Your empirical evidence is your experience.  I can tell  you that there are 
others who have other experiences such as I have  had.  I am going to do 
more research on this but I can say that your  absolute conclusion that "only 
ones that do rock to such a degree have  been neglected in that the owner(s) 
never engaged the parking brake  before putting the car in park" does 
disservice to those of us who do not  fit your description of neglectful owners 
or who have experiences with these  cars that differ from yours.  As I said 
before,   I have checked with a MBZ mechanic and the answer was "The roll in 
park is normal.  Mercedes uses very few teeth on their park lock gear so 
you'll get some roll  before the pawl engages."


Frank Pecarich
Ventura, California









 




It seems clear that your ego is at stake here so you too, in fact,  should 
have a good day.  
 
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Frank Pecarich

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