Egonvdv

Curious;

The manual tells us HOW to display vehicle & engine data
but doesn't explain anything else about it.

The engine data is pretty straight forward ( though
I don't know how sea level can be of influence - see below extract from manual),
But what I don't really understand is the "vehicle data".

See pic:

On the right side I guess it shows how much of the engine
power is being used, and I understand it shows the angle of the front tires.

But what is the red dot inside the car supposed to mean, and the info on the left?




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Displaying vehicle data
Multimedia system:
, Vehicle .
# Select Vehicle Data.

Displaying engine data
Multimedia system:
, Vehicle .
# Select Engine Data.
% The values for engine output and engine torque
may deviate from the nominal values.
Items that can influence this are, for example:
R Engine speed
R Sea level
R Fuel grade
R Outside temperature

arnsbrae

Sea level is a reference to air pressure. At elevations above sea level, air pressure reduces.

Proeliator2001

As said above, engine power for cars is, as far as I know, declared under standard ISA conditions (sea level and 15 deg C). Move away from those and engine power changes (will reduce as pressure decreases and or temp increases). A 300bhp car will not be producing 300bhp on a hot day (especially a turbo engine) or half way up a mountain. In any case, the picture you show doesn't give engine power, that's the other screen (one is vehicle data, which you show, one is engine data which gives instantaneous generated power and torque).

Vehicle data shows steering angle as you say, on the right shows amount of throttle (upwards) or braking (downwards) force being used as a simple percentage and on the left I think yours shows suspension setting. The red dot in sport mode is a g force meter. Brake hard and watch it move forward with a growing red triangle behind it. It's a pointless gimmick on a big saloon car but I really like it as I'm an engineering geek!

One thing to consider is ​​​I've noticed that when drive pilot brakes to slow the car to the speed of traffic ahead it doesn't trigger any braking force to show on the vehicle page. Annoying as I'd like you see how often it applies the brakes (I can see my brake lights come in at night and it's showing no effort, if I do it myself, it shows effort).

Egonvdv

Thanks & yes, you are correct it seems: on the left it shows the "height" of the car:

0 = sport, sport+, C
-1 = E
1 = when you raise the car (2.5cm or so)

speaking of raising the car; what is this feature for? (again nothing explained in manual)
i can not think of a scenario where i would need this...? the car certainly doesn't
drive differently when i raise it..

Proeliator2001

Raising car would help get over obstacles or rough road, though it's not happened with the w213, I regularly scrapped the bottom of the w212 on speed humps and a couple centimetres more height may have helped me clear them.

Egonvdv

same here my w212 would do it a lot in underground parkings.
it sat lower on the road then the w213 and also wasn't airbody.
no suvh problems with my w213 so far :-)

evanblack00

I have air suspensions, and it definitely drive more comfortable when you drive on bad roads while raised. It automatically lowers when you drive faster than 80km/h.

Never had a problem with obstacles while driving lowered mode though.