BeeJay - Have you read the manual of your CLS? If you do you will find a superb system to stop your car rolling back, forwards and even make the hill starts real easy. If you push firmly down on the brake once stopped it automatically applies the brake and keeps it on until you touch the accelerator to go. You can tell when it is applied because the display indicated something like SBC H. If you read the manual it tells you how to apply it.
After investigation back at the MB dealership it's now working again, albeit requiring a lot more downward pressure on the brake pedal to activate than it did originally.
I can live with this as long as it keeps working every time and not just intermittently!
I, too, have had serious transmission problems with my cls 500 and am not very happy about it. I purchased the car in May and almost immediately noticed a decided "clunk" as I slowed to a stop, especially when the car was cold. My local dealer in Louisville, KY, was very accomodating, and after failing to be able to adjust the software, replaced the transmission. They indicated other users of the 7 speed transmission had similar problems. However, the new transmission failed to stop the problem, and I have had it back several times since. In addition to the clunking upon a cold stop, I also got very rough upshifts to 2nd and 3rd. Once the dealer reprogrammed the shift computer altogether, which seemed to fix the problem, only to have it recurr. The car is now back at the dealer with instructions to fix it or keep it. I'm very disappointed that Mercedes has released a transmission without the bugs being worked out. The car is beautiful and handles well, but I had a '56 Ford that shifted better than this car does. It's my fourth Mercedes but will be my last unless this is fixed. [:(!]
Did you get your cls transmission problem sorted out eventually?
Mine is still slightly suspect at just 2000 miles and I'm beginning to feel that it will have to be replaced.
If there is now a modification available since the October 05 build date of my transmission, I will go for it at the first major service inspection.?!?
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