airbrushfx

heres a strange one, i've got a 54 plate 109cdi vito with 245k lol it is a taxi tho, the clutch was changed at 208k first time pretty good ay, but about 10k miles the reverse gear occassionally jumped out of gear and i gradually got worse. now i have to physically hold it in reverse, let the clutch up very slowly til i hear it 'pop' in then again gingerly reverse however it still can jump tho. i rang mercedes and they said they'd never heard of that and quoted me over 2k to SUPPLY a new gearbox. anyone ever heard of this and whether i could just get the reverse syncro fixed as the forward gears are faultless and a full referb is 1k!! advice please

nickywarwick

more than likley just reverse syncro but selector could be bent now that you have t phsicaly hold the stick in place. be worth looking into + 2nd hand boxes are out there

brad

I have the older 108cdi and have allways been worried about the box , but after speaking to a commercial fitter from merc he told me alot of problems are caused by the spacer bush under the selector arm or one of the cables is on its way out or stretched . might be worth checking to see if you can push it into reverse on the selector arm (if you havent allready) before replacing anything.
hth

airbrushfx

cheers for that i will look into those as seem probable

the benno

i had a few problems with my 02 plate vito going into reverse , i had a quick scout round the net and found out how to adjust the cable linkage and sorted it out myself ,on mine they are behind the ashtray so quite easy to do

the benno

thread here should help mate
http://www.benzworld.org/forums/v-cl...x-magic-5.html

airbrushfx

thanks benno looks a very useful forum cheers

CRAIG HAYTER

this happened with my valeting van and had to get a new gearbox=nightmare

dan-dan

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They dont generally bent the selectors inside its more than likely the synco hub thats worn. i work for merc to on the hgv side and have stripped alot of van gearbox's

Csm

Doesnt generally matter what merc van or truck it is...... all their boxes are shite. i fuckin hate them lol

dojj

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selector issues r top of the list
did they change the dmf?
Ł2k a box is cheap, ours were Ł3k a pop

dan-dan

iTrader: (1)

yep

dan-dan

iTrader: (1)

If you say so, whats the dmf then?

dojj

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dual mass flywheel

need changing along with the clutch so it's about a grand for that, see if they changed it with the clutch at 240k

also the selectors are right pigs, might only take a few minutes to adjust, but you need to have a goot bloke coming out to do the job as some numpties will take forever

window regulators also pack up and even though they don't look sided, they are, that's another 3 hours job you can do in 20 minutes

dan-dan

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Not all DMF's need changing depends if its worn or not but i can see your point.

Gearcables they arent that bad to adjust worst bit is fitting a set to a vito

window regs defo agree, the spindle in the motor is plastic and snaps off, and there are so simple to change