W221 "Traffic Circle's" in Sat Nav guidance?

[mlawson]

I am curious, my W221 S350 (2011) when using sat nav continuously refers to a roundabout as a "Traffic Circle". Does anybody else have this? This is different to all the other Merc's I have owned.

 

[st13phil]

My experience with Sat-Nav's in general is that the words used are dependent upon the voice / language selected.

Has an American English language option been selected? Does it refer to motorway exits as "off ramps" too? If so, then chances are it has.

 

[Riva811]

Mine is NTG 3.5 as well but it says roundabout.

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[mlawson]

Many thanks. There is only one English language in the menu. I have also noticed that the menu doesn't tie up with what is in the manual, in particular Sat Radio. Does anyone else have the same? See photos.

 

[st13phil]

Ahh... Satellite Radio. AFAIK, that is only commonplace in the US market, which would tend to tie in with the Americanised lexicon.

I'mm PM @richard to see if he can shed any light on it

 

[Alfie]

Sat Radio is a US only option.

Roundabout is what the Americans think is a traffic circle. They dont have many!

So, either the car is an American market car or the Comand unit has come from an American car.

 

[mlawson]

It's a UK car, looking at the diagnostics info the local MB gave me a few months ago, I notice the P/N of the COMAND head unit is 2219016600, which (according to Google) looks like it could be the US version of the head unit.

 

[Alfie]

In that case its had the Comand changed at some point for a USA version, hence the symptoms you are seeing.

 

[richard]

Hi

As yours is a 2011 it has a NTG3.5. European "eBay" NTG3.5 are seriously expensive, but used American ones are much more common and much cheaper (and readily available in Germany for some reason I haven't worked out). It has been coded which has enable some of the European stuff (i.e radio frequency spacing to be correct I assume) but not everything ..

So it looks like your unit has been replaced with a USA one as Alfie says ! "A2219016600" is the hardware part number, there's a software part number and an overall part number. You'd find the overall part number in EPC to be 100% sure, but the appearance of the Sat Radio menu shows its a USA unit also

Happy to try and code it to be more European if you are near Lightwater !

Richard