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2013 Infiniti G37 Coupe; 2011 GLK 350 w/ Premium 1, Multimedia & Sport Appearance; I LOVE IT!
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GLK 350 / Porsche 993
I don't have to double tap anything. When I'm on a hill, I just release the brake pedal and the car will not roll anywhere for 2-3 seconds giving me time to push gas. On some other MB's you just push brake pedal hard to engage hill start. If you really have to double tap the brake on new Mb's it's really annoying.
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GLK 350 / Porsche 993
F that...and what do you do when your car won't go in park or in drive, because of electronic gremlins?
One of the reasons I'm keeping my 2010 is because of the "new" features mandated by safety and environmental laws for idiots who don't put car in park or push on gas and sue for "sudden acceleration".
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From: Edmonton, AB
2010 GLK350
The hold function (pressing the brake down after stopped) doesn't work on my 2010 GLK350. May have to try on an incline, but using the same technique that works on a 2012 C300 has no effect on my GLK.
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From: Northern New Jersey
2010 GLK Black, Premium 1, Lighting, Multimedia, Appearance and Media Pkg, 2012 Corvette Grand Sport
On the '10 GLK there are two stalks on the left side of the steering column. One is the directional and the other is for the cruise control. Did you know if you if you push the CC stick up to the first detente it will increase by one mile PH. If you push up to the second detente it will increase to the next 5 MPH speed (ex. 57 to 60 or 55 to 60). The same applies to slowing down when you push down on the stick. The best part is when you slow down by 5 MPH increments it will put the brakes on and your tail lights also go on to let the person behind you know. I assume the newer models also do that.
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On the '10 GLK there are two stalks on the left side of the steering column. One is the directional and the other is for the cruise control. Did you know if you if you push the CC stick up to the first detente it will increase by one mile PH. If you push up to the second detente it will increase to the next 5 MPH speed (ex. 57 to 60 or 55 to 60). The same applies to slowing down when you push down on the stick. The best part is when you slow down by 5 MPH increments it will put the brakes on and your tail lights also go on to let the person behind you know. I assume the newer models also do that.
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2014 GLK-350
2014 GLK 350 with premium package-- you can program your right side mirror to point down so you can see the curb every time you switch to reverse. Helpful when parallel parking and you don't have the rearview camera. When you switch off from reverse, the mirror goes back to it's original position.
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From: Montreal, Canada
2014 GLK250
2014 GLK 350 with premium package-- you can program your right side mirror to point down so you can see the curb every time you switch to reverse. Helpful when parallel parking and you don't have the rearview camera. When you switch off from reverse, the mirror goes back to it's original position.
Could you please provide exact steps on how you did it.
I find this feature very useful.
Thanks!
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GLK 350, 300ce
FYI, this also works in the pre-2014 US models as well. I have a 2011. When in reverse, select the passenger side mirror. Now adjust it to point all the way down. For paranoia's sake, I always choose to save to memory when making adjustments but I don't know if this is required. Now when backing up either the passenger side or the driver side _program_ will be selected based on the one you left it at last, just take a look at it. You might choose the driver side _program_ for those times when you are backing up but don't want the passenger mirror moving.
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From: Montreal, Canada
2014 GLK250
FYI, this also works in the pre-2014 US models as well. I have a 2011. When in reverse, select the passenger side mirror. Now adjust it to point all the way down. For paranoia's sake, I always choose to save to memory when making adjustments but I don't know if this is required. Now when backing up either the passenger side or the driver side _program_ will be selected based on the one you left it at last, just take a look at it. You might choose the driver side _program_ for those times when you are backing up but don't want the passenger mirror moving.
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Beats the crap out of having to hold the button down...
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2010 GLK Black, Premium 1, Lighting, Multimedia, Appearance and Media Pkg, 2012 Corvette Grand Sport
My wife's 2007 Lexus ES350 does the seats, steering wheel and mirrors for both fobs. And BTW Push to Start was standard on her car.
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From: Calgary, AB
2014 GLK 250 BlueTEC
Lol, both vehicles are second tier knockoffs from toyota and nissan. You can currently get topped up genesis that will have all the same features as S class and will even look very close to S class for about $150K less...
Yet it is a god damn hundai...
To both of you guys, when i bought my 2012 STI, i remember thinking that my old 1994 540i had everything automatic, leather and heated - while the STI comes with manual seats, terrible finishes and overall just plasticky look... With the same engine output on top of that... great progress for ~15 years?
Not going back to that...
Yet it is a god damn hundai...
To both of you guys, when i bought my 2012 STI, i remember thinking that my old 1994 540i had everything automatic, leather and heated - while the STI comes with manual seats, terrible finishes and overall just plasticky look... With the same engine output on top of that... great progress for ~15 years?
Not going back to that...
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2014 GLK350
while on the MB website trying to figure out how to program the garage door opener, I learned that double tapping the unlock button quickly (and holding the button down on the second tap), will roll all 4 windows down and open the sunroof.
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2021 GLC43, 2014 G550, 2000 C280 Sport EX: 2019 C300 Convertible, 2010 GLK350, 2006 C55 AMG
Mercedes used to have that feature. But when it came down to having multiple keys this feature becomes more of a nuisance if you don't have a way of distinguishing your keys especially if you're that couple that throws their keys in the same bucket at home.
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2021 GLC43, 2014 G550, 2000 C280 Sport EX: 2019 C300 Convertible, 2010 GLK350, 2006 C55 AMG
I'm kind of annoyed that they no longer have the IR sensor on both sides of the car like they used to in earlier Smartkey vehicles. My 2000 C280 had it on both sides.
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Lol, both vehicles are second tier knockoffs from toyota and nissan. You can currently get topped up genesis that will have all the same features as S class and will even look very close to S class for about $150K less...
Yet it is a god damn hundai...
To both of you guys, when i bought my 2012 STI, i remember thinking that my old 1994 540i had everything automatic, leather and heated - while the STI comes with manual seats, terrible finishes and overall just plasticky look... With the same engine output on top of that... great progress for ~15 years?
Not going back to that...
Yet it is a god damn hundai...
To both of you guys, when i bought my 2012 STI, i remember thinking that my old 1994 540i had everything automatic, leather and heated - while the STI comes with manual seats, terrible finishes and overall just plasticky look... With the same engine output on top of that... great progress for ~15 years?
Not going back to that...
Knock-offs of what?
BTW, if you bought a Caddy you don't get to make fun of anything...
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My keys are different than my wife's, but we don't attach our car keys to our key rings because we often swap cars.
On the Infiniti fobs we just attach different doobobs and we can tell the difference; maybe the MB engineers will figure this one out soon...
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No offense, but that's the lamest excuse I've ever heard for dropping a useful feature.
My keys are different than my wife's, but we don't attach our car keys to our key rings because we often swap cars.
On the Infiniti fobs we just attach different doobobs and we can tell the difference; maybe the MB engineers will figure this one out soon...
My keys are different than my wife's, but we don't attach our car keys to our key rings because we often swap cars.
On the Infiniti fobs we just attach different doobobs and we can tell the difference; maybe the MB engineers will figure this one out soon...
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Haha or maybe the driver won't figure it out. features like this are probably taken away based on the lack of popularity of the feature, costs of an unpopular feature or the lack of driver awareness that it exists. Unfortunately for me my vehicle was a model year after that feature was taken away from my vehicle model. In my case it wouldn't make a difference because I'm the only driver of my vehicle.
Being the only driver does make a difference; I never even thought about memory seats until I got married...
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Magic Toaster Oven
If you unlock the car and don't open any of the doors, the car will automatically re-lock itself after a certain amount of time.
Windows are also magical and won't crush your hand/arm when you leave it in and use the auto close feature.
Windows are also magical and won't crush your hand/arm when you leave it in and use the auto close feature.
Last edited by LiftOff; Aug 20, 2016 at 11:10 PM.
