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Old 01-18-2016, 06:53 PM
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How much power has somebody put through a stock one of these?

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it appears strong to me.



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There's a few 9 second cars running around already but who knows they haven't been out very long.
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theyve been out long enough they look to be stronger than anything previous.



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lol maybe not.




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Damn, im curious to what the actual problem is.
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i havent heard of anything thats common.


1 runs 9s and other blows up stock lol.
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Sounds like a 4th gen 10 bolt lol
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id like to test drive a 6th gen with this trans but then ill end buy buying it lol.
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Yea that 1LE would be a distant memory
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In response to the video. This doesn't prove that its not a tough trans. If they had a recall and were supposed to replace the trans then it was obviously shipped with a faulty trans. Not a weak trans but a clear fault in the way they originally built it.

It wont be common practice to sell any of these cars with the faulty trans.

I worked for Mercedes for 10 years. We had plenty of cars with internal type of recalls that would have broken on the street had we not fixed it before it was delivered. Consider it kind of part of the original build of the car.

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In response to the video. This doesn't prove that its not a tough trans. If they had a recall and were supposed to replace the trans then it was obviously shipped with a faulty trans. Not a weak trans but a clear fault in the way they originally built it.

It wont be common practice to sell any of these cars with the faulty trans.

I worked for Mercedes for 10 years. We had plenty of cars with internal type of recalls that would have broken on the street had we not fixed it before it was delivered. Consider it kind of part of the original build of the car.

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The C7's are having torque converter issues. Some owners have zero issues and other do so. GM has already started with new ones. As far as the strength of a C7 A8..... They have been holding up on high powered cars



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