Juddernaut

My Mercedes ML320CDI has covered a relatively trouble free 165,000 miles. At its last service my local MB dealer says that there is a judder in second gear (it is the 7 speed model) that is likely to prove expensive. As an avid reader of your section of the Motoring Telegraph I recall that you often recommend a specialist to check it out, and as I can't hear or feel it with or without the radio on. I would be grateful if you could remind me whom you suggest in the home counties?

Asked on 23 August 2011 by CG, Horspath, Oxon

Answered by Honest John
It was Trevor King of King Automatics, The Chalk Pit, College Road, Epsom, Surrey. www.kingautomatics.com Otherwise a member of www.fedauto.co.uk
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