netboy

i use 360 camera everytime i park, even when going in my house garage. and i dont care about the wear and tear on the camera, i have 7 years/75,000 miles warranty on the car.

Bueller178

If you make sure your dealer changes the lens fluid at each service your 360 camera will outlast the car by a wide margin.

Mikey53

Also keep the blinker fluid fresh! You don't want to look like a BMW owner.

Mike5215

Screw that. The finance guy sold me CameraGuard Plus (Platinum) coverage! $6000 for five years but if the camera gets worn out for any reason they promise to replace the entire car.

Mikey53

For only $500 extra they give you a life time supply of 35mm film for the camera!

Mike5215

I have a 2016 so it's all stored on the cloud. I just needed the monthly subscription at $49.95.

sean1.8t

Thats just the first 6 month promo. Goes up to $149.95 a month after that. Totally worth it though!

dieseldoc

Excellent!

Mike5215

My first camera got worn out because I looked at it too intensely. Now I only squint or use a sidelong glance.

powerrrrr

You guys are lucky, my old car's back up camera ran on a vhs system. It ate the tape 3 months after delivery and I've been waiting for these two hack fraud VCR repair guys to fix it for the last 3 years.

Mike5215

Ha! I'd kill for VHS. The cam in my 220 was a Polaroid. By the time the picture developed you'd have already backed into something.

dieseldoc

I would rather have an old Kodak Brownie Camera!

Mike5215

My first car had a sketch artist who created simple renderings of the rear view.

sean1.8t

Haha did you have to feed him or was that covered under warranty?

Mike5215

It was sort of off-the-books. Pepe was a foreign exchange student from Guatemala who, due to an unfortunate translation incident, believed he had won a scholarship to an art school in the United States, which was located in a 1973 Dodge Dart. Naturally I returned him when the embassy got involved and the term "human trafficking" was bandied about.

pappilo

LMFAO to the 5 or so last replies.

Luton Driver

I have never owned a car with such a low clearance at the front and view the front lip as an accident waiting to happen.

It is not only kerbs that are a danger but any raised ground including being directed to park in an overflow car park that was an undulating field as I had to get the wife to walk in front of the car to find the best route to avoid clumps of grass and earth.

parkwood

Been away for some time but back to see what has been happening. This thread caught my eye as my biggest gripe about this car is the fact the front apron is too low slung for the environment in which we use it. I live in rural france and although our roads are in excellent condition fully paved (tarmaced in english ) with no english pot holes or erosion at the road edge they are single track in parts and it is common to have to run off the road onto the grass verges to let fellow motorists or big tractors pass. The verges are variable in width and smoothness as well as solidity and the front catches frequently and we have sustained some minor damage. A couple of weeks ago part of the rear bumper inset pulled out (I had gone over the top of the corner of a ditch on executing a sharp right turn at our local recycling point the road being narrow single lane the back wheel dropped just a bit too much so that the bumper scrapped on the grass verge pulling a large divet of mud and grass out) fortunately it pushed back after cleaning all the mud out and no damage. But at the front the spindly plastic supports have broken so it is possible to flex the bottom of the front spolier in the centre.

so in making the car look pretty it's useability is in my world compromised.........I may go to a glc next though although I loved my glk i prefer the handling of the c class estate and its lower centre of gravity but does it have to be so low it gets damaged by grass verges? I do raise I the air suspension on certain roads to help if I have to pull onto the verges but I do not always remember. maybe mercedes will produce a c class off road but again poss handling will be compromised?

re the 360 camera I use mine all the time for front or rear manouvering. it helps greatly to avoid high kerbs. in comparison to the audi system I was used to in an a4 quaro and a3 the mercedes parktronic warning aystem is not as easy to use the visual partmis not well placed now in the insgruments, why not have it as part of the hud display or the centre screen and the warning bleeps are too late. I have adjusted to it but other manufactueres systems with audible only systems seem easier to use.