Dashborad naive question
 

I have always tried to figure why mercedes have different dashboard signs.
anyways could anyone help me with the meaning of all those signs, Uh, and also the signs on the A/C buttons.

Thanks
New to the Mercedes world

providing the year and model of your car would help get an accurate answer. I'm in the same boat, so don't feel bad.

"Icons" is the correct term, and they're ISO.

It's American cars that are different.

model 300e year 1993

i have owned 6 mercedes so far, have 2 at the moment and dearly love everything about them except the dash controls. these are brilliantly designed and engineered cars up to the point when the switches go in and thats when the chimps take over. if you drive the car for 10 years you will still have to dig out the owners manual to get the heater to run on the 1st cold day. to make matters worse my present 2 cars, both the same year but different models have completely different and totally confusing dashes.

I think they all do the same thing. They just put multiple ones in to mess with you. Sick Germanic humor.:rolleyes:

I find the dash controls, or icons, to be extremely easy to use. Across model lines and across model years.

But then again I live in So. California. All I ever have to know is how to operate teh sunroof. Open on sunny days, close on rainy days. Makes it pretty darned easy. :cool:

After driving MB's for so long I am confused when I get into an American car.


Took me 15 minutes to figure out how to turn the AC on in my dads F150.:o

Dashboard lights & meanings:
http://mb.braingears.com/124_DISC2/Program/OM/E320/OM_12.pdf
http://mb.braingears.com/124_DISC2/Program/OM/E320/OM_13.pdf

ACC controls:
http://mb.braingears.com/124_DISC2/Program/OM/E320/OM_22.pdf

You can still purchase your own owners manual from Mercedes-Benz, and it will have all this information in it.

As said before, the nomenclature used on all M.B.s dashes is plain international signing.

European cars tend to rely more on this graphic standard due to all the different languages talked in such a small continent.

It makes it easier for a driver, regardless of the language he/she speaks, to understand the meaning of a buttom or a warning light.

And, as said before also, is American cars which I consider outdated and old-fashioned: labelling every single buttom and warning light with regular English words. It has been proven that international signing is faster and safer to understand than regular words.

Perhaps they should come up with a ....
 

spellchecker button.

JB