Two problems related to transmission stuck in gear have been reported for the 2006 Mercedes Benz C230. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
I was making a right turn stop at a light, when I attempted to acclerate the car took off as it was at a higher gear. Would not pick speed and high rpm. There was a pedestrian riding his bike and made a right turn and because his view was block my the sun he ended up rear ending my car and feel off his bike. The reason I am filing this compliant is if my car was not having this issue the accident could have been prevented bc there was no car in front of me. Thank god the rider was not badly hurt and just had a few scrapes and my car was okay so we went our separate ways. There are so many compliant about ths same issues about the car not accelerating and gears getting stuck it is becoming ridiculous. I am sure there has been cases where people are severly injured or passed away bc of this issue but ones that didn't survived are not here to file their compliants. This is a serious matter and a recall needs to be done before bodies actually start piling up. Mercedes. Benz are known to be high end luxury cars and they need to actually drive like ones. . The manufacturer need to step up and acknowledge this important matter and do the recall.
On or about may 17, 2011 my 2006 C230 at the time with 83,312, you drive normally, make a stop on a traffic light for example, when it's time to go, you release the brake, accelerate, and nothing happens except for rpms revving up. The gear shifter is in "d" drive, gauge between the odometer/tachometer shows "d" drive as well, however the car acts as if it was in neutral!!! shifting into neutral, reverse, or park, or back into drive - doesn't help! it's like a transmission is stuck in neutral!!! also, shifting into d+/- to engage manual shifting doesn't work! and as far as you keep moving the shifter into reverse, neutral, manual shift, drive - the car electronic gear display on the dashboard still shows that the car is in "d" drive regardless of what position you move the shifter; and the car behaves as if it was in neutral all this time (you accelerate, rpms goes up, remove the foot from the pedal - engine idles). The only way to make the transmission work again is to shift it into park "p", and then turn off the engine, and then turn the engine back on, and then transmission works well again for tens or hundreds of miles before it gets "neutralized" paralyzed again. This also happened to me while driving down the I-5 in California around 70 mph's and I had to pull to the side of the road and turn the car off and back on, in order for it to start working normal. That is dangerous, what if I wouldn't have been able to stop on the side of the road it would have caused an accident.