bizguy4u

The Ipod interface is a little confusing to start with.
Select "Audio" on the MM screen
You should the get a list of Sat, Disc, and Aux
Select Aux
Now hit the steering column left and right arrows to select Audio on the Main Indicator. (The speedometer)
The bit that is not explained is to then hit the "hang up telephone" button
This then gives you control of the Ipod so you can then scroll through Artists, Albums, Composers etc
In conjunction with the left side up & down arrow on the steering column and the "OK" button

Dont know who designed it but after a few trys its easy to figure out.

Strange thing is if you search "Ipod" on the Operators Manual or Comand manual there is zip on this?

Its a great thing to use to bust your MB sales guys nuts because most of them cannot figure it out how to use the Ipod Integration.

NCE500

Congrats, awesome color combo!

Ruff

The liason who helped with after car sales asked me if I wanted the wheel to move out of the way and if I wanted the mirror to fold on power off as some of the many choices before I was set free.

I asked them to set the speedo clock to AM PM and not military time and they didn't know how to do it. The premium tech guys in the back hooked up the computer and went through all the menus. As a Unix engineer I was fascinated by how many different levels of menus, and then you realize "how dangerous some of those options were!" in the wrong hands.

Last Emperor

oh wow, thats some interesting stuff

i recently read on here that the mirrors no longer fold in on the 09s

maybe they have to be programmed to do that?

2009c63soon

Priceless information. Many thanks!

2009c63soon

Thanks - will have them do this when my plates come in. Now the big question: do I leave the front beautiful and untouched and risk the wrath of NJ cops for having no front plate or do I mess it up and play it safe?

2009c63soon

nah- the power mirrors have definitely been removed.

Last Emperor

bizguy, was this originally explained to you

or what it simple trial and error?

Last Emperor

where do you park?

im in NY, but the front of the car looks soooo dope w/o the plate!
im gonna leave it off

the thing you should worry about most is when you leave it parked

sure you might get pulled over every so often, but u can maybe get out of it



id keep the plate in the car and tell the cop the car is new and im waiting for the bracket, or that the bracket fell off and im waiting for a new one

but if you can talk well, you should be able to talk your way out of it




one problem for me tho is, i always have weed in my car (LOL) and surely the dark tints and no plate will lead to me getting pulled over more often

f*ck it tho, the car looooks sooo good (and different) with out the plate

Last Emperor

i actually had a good idea the other day, and want to look into it
(but mayeb a similar product already exists)

how about a magnetic plate frame???

not so much to put on while your driving but,
lets say you like the look with out the plate,
you drive without it

and then when you park in the street or something, you just take it out the car, and stick on on the front so you wont catch tickets

what do you guys think??

2009c63soon

I park in a garage and will take my other car whenever I need to street park so that's not too much of an issue. If I do fit the plate, I atleast want the cheap nasty balck plastic housing painted body color - very surprised they don't do this anyway.

gsrjc

congratulations

Last Emperor

all i know is....ESPECIALLY IN NY/NJ

the car will look soooooo good with out the plate
and one of the reasons for this is, everyone on the road HAS a plate

people will look at your car, and they wont be able to figure out why it looks so great

most of the time they wont even notice that there is no plate
but thats one of the reasons it will look so great !


ive had this same experience with a plateless white cls55

it would break necks left and right, and looked AMAZING without the plates

charl1exbr0wn

what's amazing to me is your ability to repeat yourself incessantly.
now i have become stupider after reading your post.
thank you.

yaymitch

I live in Texas and we are required by law to use the front plates. I have yet to comply as on most high-end performance cars the front plates ruin the look of the car. I have only been stopped twice for this in 8 years and then was only given a warning. If I were to get a ticket, then I would comply. I am waiting until that time comes to change. Not sure how aggressive the NJ cops are but in Houston they don't care. For those folks in Texas, the 2 times that I was stopped (for no front plate) were on Hwy. 71 between LaGrange and Bastrop.

Last Emperor

you see.....

we're having a perfectly normal discussion in here

and then you decide to enter the forum with ur insults

youre a loser!

go grade some ones english test or somthing

shaker

Have lived in Texas for the past 12 years and not one car has had a front plate, except my Xterra (but who cares on that one). Not 1 ticket or warning for that matter. I live just north of Dallas.

Last Emperor

well in all honesty mitch

even 1 ticket every few years is totally worth it to keep the look of the car as nice as can be

iku

if you go to the main dispaly menu (on ur speedometer) and go to settings, you'll see "convinience"; click on it and you'll see "easy entry/exit". just enable it, and the steerin wheel should move out of ur way when u exit.
09 doesn't have power side mirrors ?

2009c63soon

Thanks IKU. Much appreciated.

ericrobertallen

just picked up my beast! sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet. fast, handles great. Seats are fine. And Im big, 5,11 220lbs. See attached pics

dlbello

Does anyone have a 2009 with the PP package to show?

gsrjc

how come you didn't get the lighting package?

2009c63soon

Way back when there was a lot of discussion on the forum about the ability to downshift more than one gear at a time and if I recall the consensus was that you couldn't - you'd have to click 3 times to go from 6th to 3rd for example.

Well, good news. You can! When in M mode simply hold the left paddle and it will automatically downshift to the optimal gear for maximum acceleration - eg. this am I pulled and held the paddle and it immediately shifted from 7th to 3rd and off I went.

Love this transmission.

Ruff

I am with you on that - love this tranny and the down shifts, they are perfect every time.