blando

Now that we have the picture that JustinTRW found, anyone want to call/write AMG or MB and see if it is possible?


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2002 C32 Black/Black
1998 ML320 Black/Black
1991 Corrado Red/Black
1969 Vette Black/Black

Bux

not really jk

awiner

That picture is a "pre-production" picture. It depicts the new Manual (Shift button's behind the steering wheel) transmission . The "M" means manual mode. The mode you switch into in order to use the shift buttons. This most likely is comming in the 2004 C32/C35.

dfc

Yeah, when you call, also ask them how to make it red.... as Ian was talking about in the thread that was closed.

Do any of ya know how to remove/open the parking indicator lamp housing? One of my burned out. Parking indicator lamp is the little W195 modelled lamps located in the inner part (toward the grill) of the headlamp assembly. I tried to pull and twist the base of the housing, but it won't budge. Is brute force needed? HELP... my C32 looks ghetto now.

box986

What I saw was a similar 2 character display, for example SD while the car is in D and it was on a 2002 C32!

blando

Where did you see that again?

r_1_c32

My Uncle's 2002 C200 in Indonesia also has that Large Gear display. Maybe it's just a feature for Asian mercedes.

box986

I saw it in Taiwan on a 2002 C320 as well as a 2002 C32!

Can European C class owners on this forum check to see if your do that too!

Robert C32AMG

my display looks the same.....

blando

Where are you located/where did you purchase your car?

Robert C32AMG

I'm located in Europe, Poland to be exact.
From what i have seen all the c32 had this kind of display.

robert.

blando

The display in the picture is very similar to ours in the US, with the exception of the significantly larger current gear display in the upper right corner of the LCD (where it says M1). While that photo may be a pre-production model, others have stated seeing a larger gear display outside the US...

Bux

not to be a jackass but whats the big deal??? this topic of a display being a tiny bit bigger is more of a discussion than the newly installed ODPS on pc's car. People should know what gear your in after one glance anyway unless you sit there and look at the gear display of your automatic transmission every second

box986

That is the problem,, we all know the usual sequence of gear selections! PRND4321(5 forward speed automatic cars) for virtually all automatic transimission cars!

But in the case of driving the car at fast speed or whenever you need to focus on the road as much as possible and you are in manual selection that is when the large gear display really pays off!

I had mine set today!

Bux

well tell everyone what to do!

box986

I will tell everyone that PM me what to do except for ro0zy since he doesn't think it's important! j/k!

Its very simple, just set the regional setting on the instrument display from U.S. to R.O.W. from the Star Diagonostic system!

It looks cleaner, sportier and most important more readable since not everyone have the time to "sit there and look at the gear display of your automatic transmission every second"! eg, on the race track,,,,

blando

Did the dealer charge you to change the setting? Any other implications to changing the region?

box986

No charge for me,, it was a relatively easy change!

Less than 5 minutes including the time to hook up the hardware!
I can't imaging being charge more than 1/2 labor if your dealer will not do it for free!

jhillman

Is this change possible on the C320 as well, or just the C32? Also, any other implications of this R.O.W. setting?

box986

I think its available in all W203 C class(C320 for sure cuz I've seen it in a C320 also) and probably in all the late model MBs!

breastroker

Yeh why is this in C32 AMG? I have a C230K Coupe
Last week I took my car to get the cell phone and voice module coded.

I asked them to set the dash display to large numbers, dealer set regional setting to instrument display from USA to R.O.W.

I love the larger shift display, there were days that I could not see the dispaly with sun in the eyes and my wearing sunglasses etc. This was cool.

But suddenly I was getting as much as 38 miles per gallon. Tuesday I went from Burbank to Manhattan Beach and averaged 36 MPG, this at 3:30 PM through downtown traffic no less.

It actually looks like I was getting great mileage, 1/8 tank to/from Burbank about 66 miles.

But I wonder, miles are miles but are all gallons the same? No there is the dreaded Imperial gallon, The Imperial gallon is about a fifth larger than the US gallon.

So the question is, what country is R.O.W. ? Do they use the Imperial gallon?

Anyone elso that used the ROW setting, did this happen to you too?

MBenzNL

In the US mode, the instrument cluster shows the complete shifter sequence...which looks a lot better in my honest opnion.
In the rest of the world the shifter display only shows the S versus C and the actual gear that is selected.
In order to get that display changed the IC does not have to be set to the rest of world...by setting it to the rest of world one will loose a lot of other US specific setings (like the key-in-car beep).

The gear selector display can be changed as a separate variable setting in the instrument cluster and it can be set in a way that it gets regular displayed or gets inversed displayed like on the picture shown here.

greetingz,

breastroker

Thank you.

It appears that I have lost the ability to set the time function, and my clock is off an hour!

Did the tech somehow change the gallons to Imperial gallons when he set this to Rest Of World?

Do you have a sequence that can fix this?

dsC32

I agree with Blando. It is easier to see on the track, or road driving. I had mine changed on the C32 and is is much easier to read. Downshifting on a track can sometimes leave you not quite so sure what gear you moved to, and the larger display is helpful. By the way, we speculate that ROW means rest of the world. Any other thoughts on that?