Easter eggs or undocumented "features" you've found on your car. - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

bipolardave · #1 08-15-2011, 10:43 PM

In a departure from the usual tech support threads, I thought that I'd start one that almost everyone can contribute something.

What sorts of cool or interesting features have you found about your MB that you think needs pointed out because it's cool, neat, interesting, or just plain bizarre?

I filled up the other day at a quick flowing "Big Rig" pump. I didn't ease up on the nozzle in time and fuel gushed out the back.

I noticed that the overflowing diesel was draining from the recess where you open the gas cover with your finger. It was laying perfectly flat against the rear bumper and the low point also happened to be the same place you flipped it down with your finger.

Not only that, the fuel was draining between the body and my 5mph bumper....hitting the ground and nothing else on my car.

It seems as if MB were farsighted enough to realize that clutzes like me would come along so they made it easier to clean the messes we'd make.

layback40 · #2 08-15-2011, 10:52 PM

Dave,
There was a thread a few years ago about what people had found in their cars. You may get a laugh to have a read of it some time.
I started one back a while ago about diesel myths, you may find that one a buz as well.

bipolardave · #3 08-15-2011, 10:59 PM

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Dave,
There was a thread a few years ago about what people had found in their cars. You may get a laugh to have a read of it some time.
I started one back a while ago about diesel myths, you may find that one a buz as well.

Searching now, thanks!

We're headed back to NSW this November. Can you recommend some places to source some parts for my W115?

It wouldn't be the first time I've been through customs hand carrying an oddball part. I once left New Zealand with a Safari snorkel for my FJ40.

layback40 · #4 08-15-2011, 11:06 PM

Up the northern beaches of NSW (Byron Shire) there are a few shade tree wreckers with rows of MB's. They some times show up on ebay trying to sell stuff.
What are you after?

RML · #5 08-15-2011, 11:13 PM

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We're headed back to NSW this November. Can you recommend some places to source some parts for my W115?

It wouldn't be the first time I've been through customs hand carrying an oddball part. I once left New Zealand with a Safari snorkel for my FJ40.

Am I mistaken or are you hijacking your own thread?

layback40 · #6 08-15-2011, 11:18 PM

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Am I mistaken or are you hijacking your own thread?

Hey,
He is like me, from the Southern hemisphere, we do some strange things down here. Like drive on the left side of the road.
Our weather is the reverse of yours & the wind spins the opposite way around highs & lows.

RML · #7 08-15-2011, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by layback40

Hey,
He is like me, from the Southern hemisphere, we do some strange things down here. Like drive on the left side of the road.
Our weather is the reverse of yours & the wind spins the opposite way around highs & lows.

So, does water drain out of a sink the opposite of how it does in the northern hemisphere? I just checked and it drains counter clockwise. I checked two different sinks and the toilet, just to be sure. They all drain counterclockwise.

I have never understood how cars and roads evolved with two different and opposite conventions. Must be because you and the Brits are on islands. So, did horse drawn buggies use the left side of the road as well? If so, you would think that the colonists in America, who came from England, would have kept that convention.

RML · #8 08-16-2011, 12:34 AM

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So, does water drain out of a sink the opposite of how it does in the northern hemisphere?

Ok. I just did some research and found this regarding the direction of water draining out of a sink:

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp

Now, back to the original question the OP asked.

compress ignite · #9 08-16-2011, 03:39 AM

We Want "The Truth", about why the Japanese,Jamaicans,U.K.-ers,OZZIES,Etc.
"Drive Different"

'Has it got something to do with the Legions leaving Albion without Written
Traffic Directions?

compress ignite · #10 08-16-2011, 03:43 AM

You can ONLY be Cited for going the Wrong Way on a One Way Street,
If Your Water Skier (In Tow,Of the Trailer-less Boat You're Towing) hasn't
a PFD (Personal Flotation Device) on.

Even Then,it may take a State Court Judge,to determine Whom gets to write
y'all the Ticket...
The Georgia State Patrol
or
an Enforcement Agent of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Unless Someone Calls Homeland Security and The Coast Guard gets sucked
into the Insanity!

layback40 · #11 08-16-2011, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by RML

So, does water drain out of a sink the opposite of how it does in the northern hemisphere? I just checked and it drains counter clockwise. I checked two different sinks and the toilet, just to be sure. They all drain counterclockwise.

Its all about being born yesterday !! Just dangle the line in the river & you catch one. No such thing as a Coriolis force. All to do with frame of reference.

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Originally Posted by RML

I have never understood how cars and roads evolved with two different and opposite conventions. Must be because you and the Brits are on islands. So, did horse drawn buggies use the left side of the road as well? If so, you would think that the colonists in America, who came from England, would have kept that convention.

Always been on the left here, even with horse & buggy.

Its a laugh to watch people from The USA when they first arrive in ozz. They look the wrong way before crossing the road. All they see are the cars that have gone past. I guess the same thing happens in the USA for Aust/NZ/English.

RML · #12 08-16-2011, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by compress ignite

We Want "The Truth", about why the Japanese,Jamaicans,U.K.-ers,OZZIES,Etc.
"Drive Different"

'Has it got something to do with the Legions leaving Albion without Written
Traffic Directions?

The Japanese are in on this too? I just did some more research. It gets worse: http://www.i18nguy.com/driver-side.html

After doing some reading at this site, it makes sense that the driver, who more often than not would be the only one in the vehicle, would want to get in from the curb instead of walking around the vehicle.

And this is interesting: Australian historian M. G. Lay traced the first regulation of one-side-or-the-other to the Chinese bureaucracy of 1100 B.C. The Book of Rites stated: "The right side of the road is for men, the left side for women and the center for carriages."

What was the original question? Oh yeah, What is cool or interesting about my Benz? I particularly like the horn on my Benz. It resonates with meaning and purpose.

Richard

Jim H · #13 08-16-2011, 09:29 AM

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Its a laugh to watch people from The USA when they first arrive in ozz. They look the wrong way before crossing the road. All they see are the cars that have gone past.

I had a dear friend who did exactly that in London. She spent months in the hospital mending quite an assortment of broken bones, she never saw the taxi that took her out.

Look BOTH ways before stepping off the curb, eh?

okto · #14 08-16-2011, 06:58 PM

I've gotten so used to my car that I can't remember all the things I thought were nifty when I first bought it.

I like the sunshade above the rearview mirror.
I like that I can operate the turn signals, high beam, windshield wiper, and cruise control with the tips of my fingers while my hand is still firmly on the wheel.
I like that the only alert sound the car ever makes is when I leave the key in the ignition or leave the lights on.

1980sd · #15 08-16-2011, 07:54 PM

The lock system. I love the way it silently buttons everything up from the drivers door