Originally Posted by tractor

Thanks for all the tons of info guys. I have the scanner on it's way, so I can get the codes soon. The battery is on a tender, since I'm not sure how long these cars can maintain their battery when not driven.

I've got it in the garage, working on some other maintenance until my scanner arrives. I'm doing the water pump, thermostat, coolant flush, serpentine belt & A/C belt, new serp. tensioner and new idler pulley. Then I'm going to look into replacing all the vacuum hoses (even though they go some pretty horrible places), as well as most likely doing a carbon clean once I have the manifold off to verify.

One thing I noticed when I needed to rotate the engine for the A/C stretch belt is that I don't have the slot to manually put the transmission in neutral under the cupholder. However, I do have the hole under the cupholder as well as the orange tool. Any idea why I have the tool if there is no slot? Also, this is the 6 speed ZF transmission on a 2011 35d, right? I haven't yet located the ZF tag on the transmission.