:( My E320 has defaulted to crippled mode.
It is not showing any automatic gear selection in the dashboard indicator and when you select D it only runs in first gear.
You can select R with slight difficulty (going back from D to P is slightly difficult)
Recently it stuck in P and had to be unlocked via the secret hole!
.. the only other problem I noticed was that the cruise control did not always work on first start.
My engineer has fault codes 034 and 130 but is not sure what they are.
I note one fault code links the cruse control and brake switch is that a clue?
We did change the battery and that helped for a day ... but then it came back.
Help appreciated