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Not me unfortunately, kids got in the way before getting out on some long trips! I must have lucked out on the gear shift as it shift solidly. I rented a bay window VW the month before buying the Merc and the gear change was hilariously bad, having to find gears in floating space. Been told the engines are bombproof and when getting new tyres the mechanic said they had a couple that went to 500k miles!
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T5 have a gearbox made from rejected air fix kits, think it's from a polo no joke. T4 are much better, both are fixable with lots of aftermarket pieces.
The merc boxes feel very solid, but every one I've used (mostly buses and light truck bodies) all the linkages are shot so you are just guessing and hoping that what you have selected is the next year and not somehow reverse
BrickMan
Were you on Lewis two simmers ago? Saw a mint one of those a few times whilst out and thought it looked great. That was the era of Mercedes commerical that their entire reliability reputation is built on, I remember the gearboxes being like trying to shift half a planet with a plastic tea stirrer but the rest of them are solid.