Outside Temp v. KPH

[MikeL]

Begs the question why MB don't allow us to change it ourselves - I think the fixed KPH thing is specific only to the UK.

I'd love to know *why* we have to have KPH anyway - I bet German cars don't have to show MPH.

This was DCs response (Milton Keynes) after showing them the DOT response stating it was OK to do:

regarding vehicle legislation the car is required to be shipped in the state it is, however it is perfectly legal for the customer to request the change, two points should be noted.

1) The change cannot be made until the vehicle has been registered – legal reasons.

2) The dealership may need to charge a nominal fee, i.e. 1 pence, so as to generate a record that the customer requested the change – and to prove when the change took place.


It seems they are at odds with the DOT.

Mike

 

[richard]

This was DCs response (Milton Keynes) after showing them the DOT response stating it was OK to do:

regarding vehicle legislation the car is required to be shipped in the state it is, however it is perfectly legal for the customer to request the change, two points should be noted.

1) The change cannot be made until the vehicle has been registered – legal reasons.

2) The dealership may need to charge a nominal fee, i.e. 1 pence, so as to generate a record that the customer requested the change – and to prove when the change took place.


It seems they are at odds with the DOT.

Mike

I suspect that "the vehicle is required to be shipped in the state it is" because that is how it passed its type approval with the UK authority (also would tally with the fact the change can't be made pre initial registration) - rather than anything to do with the change per se.

The fact that the dealers can not change this easily has been overlooked by MB UK

R

 

[scumbag]

i had mine looked at, at a GTG in Kent with the man with the box. he wasn't able to adjust the screen on mine as it didnt give him the options for it. so maybes dealer wont have the software to do it either, nowadays.

his box was aslo unable to unlock the region code on the dvd, altho the hidden menu does give you that option.

if we change to KPH on the rads instead of MPH we wont have the problem. Australia did it. works a treat i think.

 

[DieselE]

if we change to KPH on the rads instead of MPH we wont have the problem. Australia did it. works a treat i think.

Just as long as we don't have to change to measuring fuel consumption in litres/100km

 

[prprandall51]

KMH and MPH

Some time ago, motorbikes mostly moved over to digital speedos, reserving the cluster space for a nice big rev counter. On all of the bikes I have ridden that do have digital speedos, they only show the mph figure, not the kmh figure. To obtain kmh you have to programme the cluster.

This backs up the DoT position quoted earlier in the thread. MB are unquestionably mis-interpreting the legislation if they think that both figures must be displayed simultaneously.

The Porsche Boxter also has an mph-only speedo - I don't know if that displays kmh all the time or not. Anyone with one got the answer?


Philip

 

[Rory]

2) The dealership may need to charge a nominal fee, i.e. 1 pence, so as to generate a record that the customer requested the change – and to prove when the change took place.

It might be worth getting it done just to see a MB dealer generate a bill for 1p - like I believe that!

 

[niva441]

Plus service charge for generating the bill

 

[MikeL]

Topping up the washer fluid!

 

[niva441]

Took the car into the dealer for the second time today. Despite the help from the guys on the forum, they were still unable to get it sorted. Their best guess ended up with digital speedo in the main screen displaying mph and the analogue working in kph. Apparently they were unable to get the speedo to work in mph after the UK mode was turned off.

Can anyone recommend someone to set the dash up, I'm willing to travel to get it sorted.

Thanks

Todd

 

[jdrrco]

I think it would be so handy to be able to switch properly between mph & km/h. If I take my car to France, the digital speedo can display km/h, but as this then precludes the cluster display being used for Comand directions (which are even more useful abroad than here - reminding you which way to go round roundabouts etc!), I end up having to peer at the little km/h display at the bottom of the screen and have all my directions given to me in miles, when the signposts etc are in km.

If the manual switchover which is available as standard also triggered the analogue/dial speedo to alter to km/h, (so that the needle pointing at 50 then meant 50kmh, rather than 50mph) it would be so much more useful all round.