Dentosan
New Member
Hello to all,
Recently bought a 2003 ML270, and still trying to work out a few of the controls, as the user manual is a bit vague.
Firstly on the front wipers. Right column stalk has 3 positions, one up for slow wipe, two up for fast wipe, and one down for a 4 second intermittent wipe. Now I may be being a little greedy here, but isn't that a bit basic? I would have thought at least a variable timing on the intermittent, or maybe even rain sensitive? On the outside of the where the rear view mirror attaches to the windscreen there does look to be a sensor of some sort, is it a rain sensor? Can anyone shed light on any controls that I am not aware of to vary the intermittent wipe, or turn on rain sensitive?
Secondly, I have a digital clock in the dash below the rev counter, but nothing which passengers can see. At the front end of the overhead lighting panel is an oval shaped piece of black plastic, with the interior sensor for the alarm on the left hand side of it. Now I see from the owners manual that this is the display for the trip computer if fitted. I know that I do not have the trip computer option, but in a standard model should this instead be a digital clock display, as it would seem to be the logical place to put one? If anyone could confirm for me that this should be a clock display I will start dismantling to get at it and see what's wrong.
Any advice gratefully received.
Recently bought a 2003 ML270, and still trying to work out a few of the controls, as the user manual is a bit vague.
Firstly on the front wipers. Right column stalk has 3 positions, one up for slow wipe, two up for fast wipe, and one down for a 4 second intermittent wipe. Now I may be being a little greedy here, but isn't that a bit basic? I would have thought at least a variable timing on the intermittent, or maybe even rain sensitive? On the outside of the where the rear view mirror attaches to the windscreen there does look to be a sensor of some sort, is it a rain sensor? Can anyone shed light on any controls that I am not aware of to vary the intermittent wipe, or turn on rain sensitive?
Secondly, I have a digital clock in the dash below the rev counter, but nothing which passengers can see. At the front end of the overhead lighting panel is an oval shaped piece of black plastic, with the interior sensor for the alarm on the left hand side of it. Now I see from the owners manual that this is the display for the trip computer if fitted. I know that I do not have the trip computer option, but in a standard model should this instead be a digital clock display, as it would seem to be the logical place to put one? If anyone could confirm for me that this should be a clock display I will start dismantling to get at it and see what's wrong.
Any advice gratefully received.