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Old May 15, 2018 | 01:30 AM
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Easter Egg in the Instrument Cluster

After almost two years of ownership, I think I found an easter egg that the mercedes designers left for us. Now, obviously the 213 refers to the model, but do any veterans on here know if the other numbers are random or if they mean something? Pretty cool.

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Old May 15, 2018 | 11:07 AM
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don't know what it means but have the same number...
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Old May 15, 2018 | 11:16 AM
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[QUOTE=joshg1001;7454266]After almost two years of ownership, I think I found an easter egg that the mercedes designers left for us. Now, obviously the 213 refers to the model, but do any veterans on here know if the other numbers are random or if they mean something? Pretty cool.


I think it's a meaningless figure.
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Old May 15, 2018 | 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by joshg1001
After almost two years of ownership, I think I found an easter egg that the mercedes designers left for us. Now, obviously the 213 refers to the model, but do any veterans on here know if the other numbers are random or if they mean something? Pretty cool.


I think it's a meaningless figure.
Probably, but why specify 213, which clearly means something, on the top and then have some random number on the lower half. Did the engineer/designer suddenly run out of thoughts?
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Old May 15, 2018 | 11:49 AM
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Probably, but why specify 213, which clearly means something, on the top and then have some random number on the lower half. Did the engineer/designer suddenly run out of thoughts?
111984 = Designer's birthday Nov. 1984
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I literally googled November 1984 (111984) and behold; it's when the 1st E class came out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W124

Can't be a coincidence :-)

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brilliant!!
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Old May 15, 2018 | 03:14 PM
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Very cool!
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Originally Posted by Egonvdv
I literally googled November 1984 (111984) and behold; it's when the 1st E class came out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W124

Can't be a coincidence :-)
Would be fascinating if it's true, but in Europe no one would ever write November 19, 1984 as 111984, it would be 191184, or more recently 841119. On the other hand it may indicate the engineer that programmed it was born in the US...
If the number displayed in the European versions were 191184, that would be the most ridiculous level of attention to detail I'd ever seen in any car!
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Mercedes has an office in Silicon Valley, the Bay Area, and I wouldn't be surprised if the instrument cluster programming was made there.
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Would be fascinating if it's true, but in Europe no one would ever write November 19, 1984 as 111984, it would be 191184, or more recently 841119. On the other hand it may indicate the engineer that programmed it was born in the US...
If the number displayed in the European versions were 191184, that would be the most ridiculous level of attention to detail I'd ever seen in any car!
it think it just means November (11) 1984.... (IE NOT 19 November 1984)

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Originally Posted by Egonvdv
it think it just means November (11) 1984....
Exactly, in November 1984. Mercedes presented the ''first'' E class model (W124).

http://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSi...ml?oid=9361510
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