I didn't know that!

[Tontastic]

Well, after about 5 years of having the use of (wife's car) and owned a Merc with cruise control, I only just realised that you can control the speed limiter by single mph amount if you pull it towards you. Until now, I had only ever nudged it up or down for 5 mph changes. I bumped the stalk towards me by accident and it went up by a single mph. I knew I should have read the manual before now!

Anyone else found something out that you just didn't know about before? Something I was wondering about is if my 99 W210 can be made to lock its doors automatically when I drive off. The 99 C180 we have does that, and I wondered if it was a new feature later in the year, or if I need to enable it somehow?

 

[Iain the gadget]

Yes it can lock the doors automatically.
Do a search in the forum as I have seen this several times.

 

[Tontastic]

Ah ... there is something about this here ... http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/showthread.php?t=18803&highlight=automatically+lock

 

[Mikesmerc]

Yes the doors can lock automatically, didnt know about the cruise after owning three cars with cruise..
Mike

 

[television]

Ah ... there is something about this here ... http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/showthread.php?t=18803&highlight=automatically+lock

Do you have the hand book for your car.

Malcolm

 

[Tontastic]

Yes the doors can lock automatically, didnt know about the cruise after owning three cars with cruise..
Mike

So it wasn't just me!

>> Do you have the hand book for your car.

I do, but as I said, i hadn't read that part!

 

[television]

I always keep a handbook in the toilet, its the only place where I slowly get through the 600 pages. I am starting on the 300 pages in the Command book next.


Malcolm

 

[Tontastic]

I always keep a handbook in the toilet, its the only place where I slowly get through the 600 pages. I am starting on the 300 pages in the Command book next.


Malcolm

Nice. I hope you have a Ferguson ...

http://www.poopreport.com/Intellectual/Content/Ferguson/ferguson.html

 

[television]

Nice. I hope you have a Ferguson ...

http://www.poopreport.com/Intellectual/Content/Ferguson/ferguson.html

That was good,where did you find that.

Malcolm

 

[Tontastic]

That was good,where did you find that.

Malcolm

You don't remember the Ferguson episode!!!

 

[BarryG]

Al Bundy Mr Everyman My Hero lmao

 

[Mikesmerc]

So it wasn't just me!

>> Do you have the hand book for your car.

I do, but as I said, i hadn't read that part!

Yes I have, but only glance through it while waiting for the missus to stop shopping, maybe thats what distracts me, how much she is after clocking up on my credit cards.
TOILET Wont be borrowing your handbook for a while Malcolm , not that I suspect I will need anytime quiet soon, how much are those SLs again and would they take my wife for part exchange?
Rgds
Mike

 

[television]

how much are those SLs again and would they take my wife for part exchange?
Rgds
Mike

I answered an advert once where this young lady wanted a home, the add was placed by her husband who wanted her out to move his new girl in.

she stayed a few weekends on test, so anything has a value.

Malcolm

 

[Mikesmerc]

Very good, why didnt I think of that. E BAy me thinks, wife with Mercedes ML for sale, can send pics of ML.
Mike

 

[television]

Very good, why didnt I think of that. E BAy me thinks, wife with Mercedes ML for sale, can send pics of ML.
Mike

Ha Ha ha

malcolm

 

[Tontastic]

To follow up on something else i didn't know ... i just discovered where my W210 E300TD's hookup point is in the engine bay for jump starting it ... under a plastic cover with a great big plus sign on it. How stupid can you get? All this time staring at a positive sign and i don't get the connection ...

... but meanwhile I can't figure out where my wife's point is in her C180. Insert women jokes here ...

 

[Tontastic]

Ah, my favourite "i've learnt something new about my mercedes" thread ..."

Just discovered on my ML 270 that if you twist the dial on the dashboard that i normally press to rotate through the mileage, trip meter and time to next service setting then it turns the brightness of the dash lights up and down. I really must take some of that advice and actually read the manual ...

 

[hmang]

To follow up on something else i didn't know ... i just discovered where my W210 E300TD's hookup point is in the engine bay for jump starting it ... under a plastic cover with a great big plus sign on it. How stupid can you get? All this time staring at a positive sign and i don't get the connection ...

... but meanwhile I can't figure out where my wife's point is in her C180. Insert women jokes here ...

i thought that was for a very small 1st aid kit !!!

 

[bushy30]

Anyone else found something out that you just didn't know about before?

Yes, when I opened the boot lid today (estate) I found a key hole !

Didn't know that was there !

Bushy

PS only had itfor a few weeks !