12.3" Digital Instrument Cluster and 10.25" Touchscreen Multimedia Display Standard?
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12.3" Digital Instrument Cluster and 10.25" Touchscreen Multimedia Display Standard?
Taking delivery of a 2021 GLC300 next week and I'm curious if the 12.3 Digital instrument cluster is standard equipment? It looks like a $750 option when I build one online but I see in other places including this forum that its standard. My dealer has assured me its standard so I'm not sure.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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Thank you. Yes, Sadly thats what I've found. Would love to have gotten the option if supply wasn't so tight right now. I feel lucky we got the color my wife wanted with most of the options we wanted.
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Perhaps if you go into customizing the digital screens in terms of information displayed, it's functionality may be more apparent. For example, I like the turn by turn info in the middle when using route guidance so I simply look down to confirm distance to next turn instead of shifting my head over to the nav display for a quick check. It's not a substitute but handy. Of course the aesthetics of the cluster is customized to my preference in style and color. I believe it blends better than analog gauge.
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Good point on the navigation. That would be really nice to see things in the cluster directly in front of me. We did get navigation so I wonder how that will be displayed with standard gauges? We have a loaner with the digital cluster and it is really gorgeous.
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When the 2021 updates were first released last year, they initially would be standard, and I believe most of the early builds (and certainly most of them in general) have them. It’s a shame yours won’t have it. It’s not huge, but it is pretty nice.
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Ok, that makes sense. My salesman was sure it was standard but then it turned out not to be. I also found a link at MBUSA.COM that highlighted new standard features for 2021 and the digital cluster was standard. Hopefully we will be picking up ours tomorrow and I will know for sure if ours has it or lot. Also on a side note. We took a rock to windshield last night and I only noticed this morning that it cracked the windshield on the loner GLC we are driving. UGH. 
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Unfortunately, if you didn't order it, it's probably not on the car. I saw the same announcement of the new standard equipment listing the digital cluster for 2021, which annoyed me since I had to drive almost 150 miles to find my 2020 with the digital cluster in Brilliant Blue (and only like 20% of the cars around me had it).
I walked around my local dealer dealer a few months ago when I went in for my service, and found a couple of 2021s that didn't have it. So when I came home, I tried to build a new 2021 and found it was still an option...
I walked around my local dealer dealer a few months ago when I went in for my service, and found a couple of 2021s that didn't have it. So when I came home, I tried to build a new 2021 and found it was still an option...
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We finally took delivery this week. No digital cluster which I was expecting to be the case after to chatting with everyone on this forum. Thanks to everyone for the information.
Still love the car, especially the drive! We had driven a Lexus RX 350 for 9 years which was flawless mechanically but not very fun to drive.
Still love the car, especially the drive! We had driven a Lexus RX 350 for 9 years which was flawless mechanically but not very fun to drive.
