giffSCPA

For some reason my Rx sun glasses black out (BLANK) the center screen of the Mercedes SL COMAND system. If I remove them or tilt(rotate) my head 35 degrees clockwise--then the screen is legible! I don't know if Rx sunlassess come with specifiable axis of polarization!! --or if I can order a specific polar axis so I don't have the problem! --(Nothing in modern life with $100K cars is simple these days!)

MORE CRITICALLY, I can't read the bottom segments of the (purplish) speedometer and tachometer gages for the same reason.--trip miles, temp, radio,CD,etc. and all the C O M A N D system steering wheel controlled read outs!----

Has anyone experienced these problems? How was it resolved??----Giff Albright gha1@psu.edu

karl k

Identical experience here. I just have to turn my head or move the sunglasses up temporarily.

I have a collection of Costa del Mar polarized sunglasses; they all make reading the instrument cluster and comand screen difficult.

...love those Costa del Mar glasses!

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bobafett

It's because of polarized glasses - but you know what, it's well worth the inconvenience to have proper driving glasses. Same thing with any BMW, Lexus, etc. screen.

Oh well.

--Dan

pmenger

The effect of polarization to reduce glare and increase contrast sensitivity will compromise the ability to read LCD screens. Was returning what I thought was a broken startac when I realized it was the glasses that "ruined" the screen