10.0

really awful
Typical Repair Cost:
No data
Average Mileage:
80,000 miles
Total Complaints:
1 complaints

Most common solutions:

  1. not sure (1 reports)
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problem #1

Aug 172011

ML500 W164 5.0L V8

  • Automatic transmission
  • 80,000 miles

I own a 2006 ML500 with 81K miles. From time to time suddenly the transmission stuck to a gear (I don't know which one, sometimes gear 2, sometimes gear 4 and sometimes gear 1) and do not shift at all. This happened at least 4 times for the past 5 months. The first time, it just stopped the car and put it in park then I tried to put it in drive and revers but it is like neutral, no shift at all.

Then I turned the engine off then I started the engine on and it started to shift normally as if nothing happened.

one workshop told me it is the transmission brain which need to be replaced for over $2K which is the part only.

Any thoughts??

- ml500victim, Hialeah, FL, US