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If its been slipping for that long, even if due to low fluid (though I though older merch had dipsticks?), I'd suggest that the clutches would have taken quite a hammering.  And indicates a hydro-mechanical fault.

Thus I'd begin to suggest the box is shagged.

So either a rebuild, or a working one from a donor (and use the service kit on that) IMHO.  Not sure its worth wasting that £300 kit on what is in there.

No dipstick on the W221.

I am leaning towards a temporary replacement and then gather up the parts and a suitable replacement box and get it put in as a belts and braces approach and.fitting that with replacement solenoids and TCM as those are generally the precursor to more substantial failures. Car has previous form for gearbox speed sensor discrepancies as well but they weren't significant enough to be a priority... Live and learn.

My post was specifically in relation to the Omega Estate and was from experience of being perhaps one of two people on this forum who has actually replaced a rear quarter panel.

I acknowledged that I was wrong in that the vehicle in question here is in fact an Astra, but I left my post otherwise unedited as.iy.is very much relevant to the Omega Estate and may therefore be of use to someone down the road.

Insanely

Never use it on my 530d, didn't buy a 3L to use it in eco Pro mode!

 

......there are jobs for the planners in California 

https://news.sky.com/story/california-mocked-over-billion-dollar-bridge-to-nowhere-13129715

Madley

Diversity and Inclusion, boys. Get used to it. Plenty more to come. 

Meet your new Green Party Council representative... and I thought they were all about hugging trees and saving the woodlice population. 

https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1786745199705620745

Here he is again:

https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1786735487895433518

Those of the Islamic faith are now awaking to the power they hold , they will become kingmakers before becoming king.
Farage is absolutely correct , we now have sectarian politics .
The biggest problem we have is the total lack of interest the lazy Indigenous populace have in using their vote.
They are living a life they have known through Conservative or Labour governments which have shown little or no difference to their day to day life and have therefore become utterly disinterested in the process of election.
We now are on the edge of the abyss of having a third and very progressive religious party who's followers will vote en masse as instructed which will change our comfortable western lifesyle as never experienced .
And the sad thing it's already too late to stop .
I'm as Mr Rog in that it won't really affect me but I do get angry at what I see looming over the horizon and the way that those in power did , and are doing , absolutely nothing to prevent it .

Mainstream political parties are now reaping the rewards of tokenism , we're doomed 

Bernard Hill. Actor. 79. ( Yosser Hughes - gissa job).
As well as Boys from the Blackstuff he was known for Titanic and Lord of the Rings

It was only the other that he got a mention on telly  .... he's playing Martin Freeman's character's Dad in the 2nd series of The Responder.