box986

Just got back from Taiwan today and got a chance to see many of the nicely tuned MBs and Bimmers there(Shine and C32AMG-TW's MB )!

One thing that I notice is that the W203 C class has a LARGE "gear selection" display in the instrument panel(shows S on top of D while driving in D gear as oppose to 4 tiny letters)! I guess it is a "hidden" feature in the MB star diagnosis!

ANyone knows how to activate the feature?

JustinTRW

I'm not entirely sure what you're speaking about. Are you saying that there is an option to make the gear selector very large, as opposed to the little number you see on the top-right hand side of the screen?

Here is a pic borrowed from Roozy. Maybe this will help.

Carl AMG

I think that a setting to show the gear in the middle of the display or the RPM's (similar to the setting to display MPH or KPH) would have been simple for Mercedes to program. Please tell me it's true.

box986

What I saw was bigger
S
D in the upper right of the display when the car is in "D" gear!

As oppose to the usaul
S
P
R
N
D in tiny letters! Althought it does not occupy the entire screen, it is much easier to tell which gear the car is in when we shift in "manual" mode! I still remember this being one of the "most wanted" changes in the future in one of the polls! Maybe it's just a regional setting thing for ROW cars!

JustinTRW

Shine and C32AMG-TW, can you get us a picture?

Bux

please post a pic!

box986

Newest picture that I borrowed from C32AMG-TW(Alex),,, and a little extra(293km/hr but is actually doing 300km/hr due to larger diameter tires)! YOu can kinda see the gear selection!

Bux

looks the same to me ..doesn't seem bigger



(yes i have time to waste) :p

JustinTRW

It looks as if the block where the gear is displayed is as big as the rest of the indicators. If you look at roozy's pic, it is a tad smaller.

box986

It is a bit bigger but not that big,,,,as it only display the "S" and the current gear selection! BTW, I think the cars are 02's

Harris

He is doing 300km/h at 5:52am in the morning??? Wow.....he must be in a hurry to get home!

Regime|Life

Wowa!

IanPooley

Whooooha....

300??? hehe...

I know why they got bigger gear selections displayed: japanese people can see as well as we do.

dfc

Hi Ian, I dunno what made you say that Japanese folks are blind? What's the stereotype behind that...? I thought it's interesting to know, so next time I can utilize it to mock on some Japanese. Anyway, there is a difference btw the Island of Taiwan and Japan.

IanPooley

Hi dfc,

i was just kiddin. thats all.

DL_AMG

The Temperture, Time and the gear selection's font are all few size bigger than our current display. Let's try switch our from mph to Km and see if the font goes bigger.

JustinTRW

Look what I found on the AMG owner's club website:

tango

dude.. ur ghey.. ur joke is not funny... no racism here is allowed so control urself and ur 'jokes'

IanPooley

Whatever.

Chuck

How did Roozy get the "AMG Power" to display?

IanPooley

What do you mean with "AMG Power"?

muhri

He's browsing his telephone book and its an entry with that name.

Boo2

Roozy,

Is it just the camera, or did you change the colors of your display? How did you do that? Looks tight!

box986

That is exactly what I was talking about,,, is there any way to have the N.A. cars display that way?

Bux

i didn't change the colors, guess the camera/flash and taking it at night made it look a little different. AMG POWER was added in the phone book for the pic.