I've wondered about this too. Leave it to MB to be overly engineered in one respect, but very spartan in another. While it's not terribly annoying to have to click the stalk once every 10-20 seconds depending on conditions, I wonder about the longevity of the mechanism being manually clicked hundreds (thousands?) of extra times over what an adjustable intermittent setting would do.

Of course I haven't heard of failure of the stalks for wear and we've some pretty high-mileage W123/W124's. Do the w210's have this feature?

Regards,
- Ryan

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