How to Tell Your Mercedes Gear Selector Needs Attention
Gear selection is essential to the performance of your luxury Mercedes. If you want to experience the high-performance capabilities you bought your car for, then your gear selector needs to be able to switch with ideal timing. This guide will help Mercedes owners identify and address any issues they may experience with their gear selector so they can enjoy their vehicle at its fullest potential.
Key Signs to Look Out For
- Difficulty Shifting Gears: When you’re shifting gears, if things feel a bit stiffer than usual or you experience a delay in the selector catching the next gear, it’s time to take in your Mercedes for some professional service.
- Unusual Noises During Gear Changes: If you’re driving a Mercedes, you know it’s capable of shifting gears with melodic sound effects. So, if you’re finding that the sounds aren’t so harmonious when you shift gears, it’s likely you need gear selector service. Some of the sounds can be explained as clicking, grinding, or any unusual noises while changing gears. If these noises go unchecked, it can make for a much worse problem, so please bring it to certified technicians immediately.
- Gear Slippage: If your Mercedes suddenly slips out of gear while accelerating or shifts into the neutral position without intentional input, the gear selector may fall out of place.
- Warning Lights on Your Dashboard: Transmission-related warning lights or check engine lights can often be linked to gear selector issues.
- Inability to Start the Vehicle: this is one of those pressing issues that simply cannot be ignored, considering the issue is that you cannot get where you need to go. When this issue is related to the gear selector, it’s because the car doesn’t recognize that it’s in park or neutral, which may be indicated on your dashboard, making it easy to understand what’s going on.
Expert Inspection and Repair
Motorwerks Auto Group is a certified shop specializing in Mercedes repair services and maintenance. Having served Humble, Texas, and the surrounding areas of Houston, Porter, Spring, and The Woodlands for over a decade, we’ve earned our credibility through excellent service, fair prices, a neighborly candor rooted in our localized ownership that no major corporate dealership could hope to compete with.
When it comes to mechanical problems, our experienced staff can identify the problem and fix it in a cinch with dealership-grade replacement parts or even aftermarket parts that can exceed the original parts in quality and performance. Regarding software issues, our diagnostic equipment is state-of-the-art technology that serves the latest Mercedes models with unmatched modernity and tact.
We do all of our expert services for fair prices because we are part of the community and want to serve it so that everybody benefits. Our mechanics are local, so they understand not only everything about cars and how they work but also the local landscape of Texas. They’ll prepare your Mercedes for the torrential rains and vast deserts properly because they go through them regularly. The benefits of working with a local shop not only apply to your car but also to giving back to your community. It’s a true win-win.
Book Your Mercedes Service with Motorwerks Auto Group
We are the most trusted local auto shop in Humble, Texas, 
and the surrounding areas of Houston, Porter, Spring, and The Woodlands because we’ve earned it with our ASE-certified staff, specialization in Mercedes and other complex vehicles, neighborly service, and honest prices.
Come by our shop at 2006 Rotary Dr, Humble, TX 77338, or give us a call at (346) 477-4103 to get your appointment and your gear selector fixed correctly.