Can the feature that keeps the headlights on for a while after exiting the car be turned off? it is so silly.

Ian

The dealer can disable it which means you can probably do it if you have SDS. Can you trace the relay that clicks when the lights go on and off? Maybe it's a dedicated relay that doesn't disable features you need if you remove it.

I can see that you have no use for it but how is it silly?

Sixto
83 300SD

Seems kinda useful to have the area in front of the car illuminated as you're walking away from it.

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 154k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 172k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver on Tan, 142k mi, wastegate conversion, ALDA delete

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

I hate that too.I've learned after I turn off lights and turn off engine,to put key back in run,then turn off and walk away.

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran

My shops and garage are not attached to the house so we built a very large carport. I find the headlight delay quite useful for making it to the backdoor and unlocking it.

Everyones situation is different so they should indeed have made it easily selected or deselected.

They did in the later models. My 2008 W164 has the ability to change this in the console menu.

Remember the W210 was one of the first computer controlled cars with CAN bus running everything. The W140 was actually the first, but the 210 was the first one with large numbers. They did not provide a user interface in these early models where the user could change the settings.

They did make it selectable with the HHT or Xentry. So if it is really a nuisance to you, I would find an Indy or the dealer and pay for an hour of shop time for them to go in and turn it off.

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The OM 642/722.9 powered family
Still going strong
2014 ML350 Bluetec (wife's DD)
2013 E350 Bluetec (my DD)

both my kids cars went to junkyard in 2023
2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles)
2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles)

1998 E300DT sold to TimFreeh
1987 300TD sold to vstech

That's it? That's the biggest complaint you have about 201 headlights? How about the crappy lexan lenses that are forever clouding over? Headlights with cataracts is how I used to describe them.

Mine were awful when I bought the car. Then I discovered what $30 at Sam's Club would get me. Good as new.

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 154k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 172k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver on Tan, 142k mi, wastegate conversion, ALDA delete

19 Honda CR-V EX 61k mi
Fourteen other MB's owned and sold
1961 Very Tolerant Wife

Or ya know, spring perches snapping off, more rust than the titanic, lower control arms that break..... As nice as the design of the w210 is, I'll never own another....

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2004 F150 4.6L -My Daily
2007 Volvo XC70 -Wife's Daily
1998 Ford F150 -Rear ended
1989 J-spec 420SEL -passed onto its new keeper
1982 BMW 733i -fixed and traded for the 420SEL
2003 Volvo V70 5 Speed -scrapped
1997 E290 Turbo Diesel Wagon -traded for above
1992 BMW 525i -traded in
1990 Silver 300TE -hated the M103
1985 Grey 380SE Diesel Conversion, 2.47 rear end, ABS -Sold, really should have kept this one
1979 Silver 300D "The Silver Slug" -Sold

Something like this, perhaps?:

R/C Recycle Truck - Sam's Club

I remember how proud I was driving out of the showroom in my new '99...and how disappointed I was every time I brought it around back to the service department.