Welcome Lighting - Works How?
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My 2¢. The lighting system is fine my me. I am embarrassed by the puddle lights. I know I bought a MB, I don't need to be reminded or reassured or to have others gawk at the ostentatious display. At least it doesn't project the MSRP. I am not that insecure. However, my 2004 Volvo (16 years old) has fobs that reset the seats. I have my keys and she has her keys. I open the car and the driver seat adjusts for me automatically. Maybe this is just a manifestation of German versus Scandinavian culture.
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My sister's Lexus had that. Once, my brother-in-law locked his 95-year old father in the back seat. When the old man finally decided to join us in Home Depot, he couldn't get out. It was a hot day. We're making our purchases when they page his license number: "You have a very panicked man in a hot car and someone has called the fire department."
Not sure I like that feature.
Not sure I like that feature.
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Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
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I think if the car is locked already, and then unlocked with the key fob, it will automatically lock itself again after several seconds or a couple minutes. A safety feature in case you accidentally pressed the button in your pocket or something.
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
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I think if the car is locked already, and then unlocked with the key fob, it will automatically lock itself again after several seconds or a couple minutes. A safety feature in case you accidentally pressed the button in your pocket or something.
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
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My 2¢. The lighting system is fine my me. I am embarrassed by the puddle lights. I know I bought a MB, I don't need to be reminded or reassured or to have others gawk at the ostentatious display. At least it doesn't project the MSRP. I am not that insecure. However, my 2004 Volvo (16 years old) has fobs that reset the seats. I have my keys and she has her keys. I open the car and the driver seat adjusts for me automatically. Maybe this is just a manifestation of German versus Scandinavian culture.
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No, you're embarrassed by LED Logo Projectors located under the doors (and only lighted or visible once the doors are open), as would I be. The puddle lights are the lights under the mirrors, without any ostentatious display, but rather just placing light down outside the car and in front of the doors, before they're opened. So you don't step into, guess what, a puddle. Yes, they come on once you're unlocked the doors, but that would mean my wife would have to scrounge through her purse to find and actuate the key. That's the whole idea of such a key, that you don't have to get it out to use the features of the car. Which my Toyota and Acura did an excellent job of doing, but which the E-Class does not.
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Interesting. How did you turn it on? I (now) know it comes on when the car is unlocked, as do inside lights, but then they turn off after a bit.
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'19 E63S sedan
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Originally Posted by rraisley
Yes, they come on once you're unlocked the doors, but that would mean my wife would have to scrounge through her purse to find and actuate the key. That's the whole idea of such a key, that you don't have to get it out to use the features of the car. Which my Toyota and Acura did an excellent job of doing, but which the E-Class does not.
After more than 2 years of E300 ownership, I've never had a situation where I needed to physically use the key. It stays in my pocket.
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Again, by the time you touch the door handle, you're standing in the puddle that the puddle light is supposed to show you. Meaning by that time, it's worthless. That's why other cars I've had illuminate it as you're walking up to it.
