Ignition Problems of Mercedes Benz E Class

When the engine gets hot, it stalls . After it cools for some time, it re-starts. It happened to me on the highway (bumper-to-bumper traffic). Found out from the mercedez forum that it is a known problem due to cranshaft position sensor. It has happened to number of people.

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Throttle control failure causing exactly a 20 second delay before the car would actually accelerate after pressing the accelerator. This caused me to be in nearly 3 accidents, because the car did not move when I was in the middle of an intersection and pulling out of a parking spot, cars were coming, but I could not move forward, until after the 20 second acceleration delay. When I turned the car into parkplace mercedes, the invoice showed that they had to replace my ignition system as well as the throttle control system.

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Approximately 10 minutes after first starting the car for the day and driving 5 or 6 miles on rural roads, I stopped at a traffic light for 20 or 30 seconds and then attempted to pull out on to the main highway. At first the car would not move until I had the accelerator pedal half way to the floor, and then it slowly responded with a very low level of power. Once out on the highway, I had to hold the accelerator pedal almost all the way to the floor in order to maintain 50 miles per hour. Since the car has been running fine otherwise I assumed that there must be some kind of computer problem interrupting the electrical signal from the accelerator pedal so I pulled to the side of the road, turned the ignition off for about 30 seconds and restarted the car. After restarting the engine the problem went away and the car is running fine. Obviously I was lucky that my intersection incident did not place me in the path of any fast moving vehicles or else the outcome may have been quite different.