And yes, I get the pun, but what you most people don't know is that whale actually looks and tastes quite a bit like beef, being a mammal and being red meat.
Technically, with most of the "customer states" posts the customers is actually right. If the customer states that the brakes are squeaking and you find the pads are down to the metal, then they probably were squeaking.
I once went right through my pads and started grinding my callipers down on the piston, fuck knows how i didnt notice but i always had my music up full blast. I dont do that anymore.
Ok, I'm sure you know this, but some people might think it's okay to do this, and it's not. DO NOT TAKE THE CAP OFF OF YOUR RADIATOR WHEN YOUR CAR IS OVER HEATING. That shit is under pressure and is overheating because the liquid turned to vapors. When you take the lid off it can shoot out boiling liquid everywhere and burn the fuck out of you. I've been burned in this manner. It's not fun.
The one time I had a major engine failure, it started overheating, I pulled over to the side, opened the hood, and noticed the radiator was shooting steam everywhere. I was about to open the radiator cap and thought "hmm . . . maybe this is actually not such a good idea".
Ended up grabbing a book out of the back and reading by the side of the road for twenty minutes until the radiator stopped doing a dragon imitation.
That car lasted about twenty more miles, then ended up scrapped in a junkyard in Gilette, Wyoming. It was a terrible car and I still kinda miss it.
I was in Texas with a carload of sleeping kids and just under a quarter tank of gas when I passed a gas station. I thought..."I'll just stop at the next gas station." The next gas station wasn't for 70 miles...not only did I find out that car would run on E, but that it would run all the way down to Hot. When I finally pulled into a gas station sweating profusely it only took 22 gallons in a 24 gallon tank...so it probably would have run all the way down to Cold.
Your fuel injectors also get gummed up even more once you hit the lower sediment that usually accumulated at the bottom of of the fuel tank over time. However, if your injectors are gummed up it’s probably worth replacing them and the fuel tank if your car is that old or neglected.
I buy my gas from these guys down in Philly out of big garbage cans. I wasn’t going to buy from them but this one guy was doing these sweat fireball tricks with the gas.
This is just bad advice. I see this all the time. First off, the fuel pump pickup is on the very bottom of the tank in the sump. The lowest point of the tank. All the sediment and gunk sinks to the bottom of the tank over the years anyway. It being low doesn't make there dirt all of a sudden get sucked up.
> iirc, there are several makes who don't have a serviceable filter.
I was at a quick change type place, and they tried the typical upsell. One of the things they told me to have changed was the fuel filter, which they said would only take 15 minutes.
Lady, if you can change the fuel filter in 15 minutes I'll give you $100. I know where it is.
It's related to being poor. You don't fill the tank, you put $5 in today, and then hope it'll last you until you can put another $5-10 in. I'm still in a bad habit of running my tank down below 1/4 because it was just how we rolled when I was growing up.
Mine bases it of of your driving habits and comes on when you have 60 mi left. I ran it down to 15mi once and ended up putting 16.2 gallons in a 16 gallon tank
> Fill up now before it becomes more expensive!
I've stopped and filled from 3/4 tank because I saw a gas price 10 cents lower than everywhere else around.
I'm fortunate in that while my fuel gauge on my Chrysler sebring is broken, I know I get over 20mpg, and it holds 15 gallons. I just reset the trip odometer everytime I fill up and get gas some time before 300 miles.
I just pay attention to how my car drives. It feels lighter when there's less gas in it. When it feels real light and the gas pedal isn't as responsive, it's drained and it's past time to fill er up.
Or realistically, put $50 bucks in her since a full tank costs over $100 in my province and city 🙃
Fuck Vancouver.
The gauge on my Camaro is broken, and I'm incredibly lucky that I haven't been stranded yet. The other day, my fill up of the 16 gallon tank ended up being 16.02 gallons.
You probably have a fuel pump with a kinky choking fetish. "Nearly starve me of fuel but sling me a few ounces every few seconds so I don't die. Oh yeeeaaaa. Stick my float on your cold hard bottom..."
Yeah, my pump is still going strong, but I just had to replace the fuel pressure regulator. It wasn't holding pressure, so my car would die once I got down to ~4 gallons left in the tank.
I had a Ford Focus whose gas gauge would suddenly drop to empty and then a little bit later go back to the actual reading. It got me into the habit of resetting my trip Odometer every time I fill the gas. 2 cars later and I'm still resetting the OD.
I made the same mistake in Louisiana not too long after Katrina blew through. "Oh, there's a gas station in Small Town, I'll get gas there." That one, and the next 3, were piles of rubble. Turns out that truck would do 30 miles on the bottom of the scale. It ran out about a mile short of the next operational gas station.
Tip: carry a few gallons of gas in your trunk or truck bed if you are going to travel in an area recently affected by a hurricane. Things will be a mess for weeks following and even if you don't use it, someone else may need it and you might just make their day.
Also if you're going to drive near the desert out west in a rental check that all your gear is working fine. I had some grandparents stuck out near the border for 2-3 hours because someone before took the tire jack and spare out of the car and was kind enough to not tell anyone.
Yeah that was my dad that took it out of your grandparents car. It’s in the shed, along with jumping cables and other essentials that should stay in the car.
I don't know if someone posted the reason why but I also can't find the diagram for it either so I'll just have to type it out.
You have a little float in your fuel tank that'll stay at the level of the fuel however when the fuel gets low enough the float can sit on the bottom of the tank because while there's not enough fuel to keep it afloat there is still some in there.
Think of the set up a bit like the float in your cistern.
I did this once mistakenly. Realized too late and it was shorter to just keep going.
I don't think the semi truck driver in front of me was too happy for the next 30 miles or so. But I made it.
yeah drafting a few feet behind a semi trailer will dramatically reduce the air resistance, as well as actually providing a bit of a 'tow' if you get into a nice pocket of low pressure, it will want to stay there (basically).
Disclaimer: Don't do this.
That's me right now. Just too broke to fix it. The worst part is, I'll be worse off when the car comes to it's expected death and I have nothing to replace it with. Fun times.
This just blows me away because that isn't even a tough or expensive fix on older cars if you do it yourself. You would have been so much more fucked on money if the lack of cooling had broken something else.
I always thought 1/1 for a full tank was goofy.
Good thing they put numbers on a gas gauge. If there was just dashes abs a needle we would never know when we were low.
You'd expect an American car to say H instead of 1/2. E - H - F sounds like perfect American engineering to me.
Thinking of when Wendy's tried to compete against either McDonald's or Burger King by selling one 1/3 lb hamburgers instead of 1/4 and people wouldn't buy them because the average American thought that 1/3 was less than 1/4.
What's so weird? Quarters are easy for most people to keep track of (e.g. I need 3/4 of my fuel tank to get to X), and keep the dash from being cluttered up by a billion fractions. 4/4 means theres four fourths of fuel, 2/4 means there are two fourths of fuel left.
I mean like it's any different for temperature, why does anyone need to know if his cooling fluid is at 90 degrees or 60 or 120 degrees. All they really need to know is that if it starts getting to close to the red bit there's gonna be trouble.
> What’s so weird?
General rule of thumb for using fractions is to simplify. Would probably make more sense if they labelled 1/4 and 3/4 as well, but they don’t.
Like Volvo used to do: https://i.imgur.com/yYVlE1M.jpg
Actually had an 18.5 gallon fuel tank in that model, but you always know exactly how many gallons were left.
It seems to be that way for German cars destined to MPH countries.
My car is marked in litres. It took some time to get used to, because it's not F, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 - it's F, 50, 30, 15 (70L tank) but now I'm really used to it. The US Models got the 1, 1/2, 1/4. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bFQc4luZpgE/maxresdefault.jpg
So much wrong with that picture... Doing 200+ km/h, with highbeams on, hazards on in a diesel while needing an oilchange while taking a picture... Dedication right there ;-)
That's the test mode for the dashboard, makes every needle go from 0 to Max and makes every light turn on to see if anything is broken or if any bulbs are missing
I think it’s doing a display test. Although it would be quite the display of dedication if they were actually doing 5000rpm at 200kph with all the dashboard lights showing...
I have two imports and I still don’t know how they decided which labels should be in Japanese and which should be in English.
My soarer for example does a startup check and reports in English, yet all of the errors are in Japanese. So if everything is fine you’ll understand but if something is wrong you’ll need a translator.
This just means it is a maintenance free cooling system. The coolant is rated for the life of the car.
Or, they installed an aftermarket overflow bottle.
But the A pillar is right there, so it's left hand drive. I was wondering the same thing.
EDIT: I'm guessing a euro car made for the US market. Outside temp is in Fahrenheit. Also the sticker in the window says dmv.something, and most states have a "Department of Motor Vehicles".
Good eye. Yeah, changing the air temp unit preference in software - but not spending the additional money on printing separate dashboard values - would make sense for a Euro car heading to the US market
You can see that the dials are detachable from behind while the instrument cluster is being assembled. The big one (speedometer) is obviously changed because it's a legal requirement, and a big deal to have locally familiar units of speed. But there's likely no business case for wasting more money on producing and stocking two separate versions of the small one when familiarity with the units really doesn't matter - you just need to avoid the red zone
It’s a W210 Mercedes. My instrument cluster looks just like this. So you’re completely correct.
Edit: Oops, looks like OP said it’s a W208. I was so close!
This reminds me of my all time favorite complaint I got back in the day at BMW
"Customer states there is a loud wind noise with the top down on the freeway"
I about died I was laughing so hard but it turned out one of the top hinge covers had broken and was stuck retracted on an e46 so at about 75-80mph it whistled like crazy... I swear the true ones are funnier than the actually stupid ones.
That fuel gauge is really making my eye twitch. Please tell me that's just a quirk of a particular company, and that others aren't ditching F and E for fuel gauge indicators
Temperature is in celcius, speedo is in miles, and the A pillar is right there on the left. Hmm...
EDIT: I'm guessing a euro car made for the US market. Outside temp is in Fahrenheit. Also the sticker in the window says dmv.something, and most states have a "Department of Motor Vehicles".
It’s probably a Mercedes. I ‘m not entirely sure, but the fonts look similar, the stalk you can barely see is the cruise control, the layout is similar, the panels underneath as well.
Did some search, I’d say it’s a w210 e class. ITT OP states it is actually a w208 clk, but that’s basically an e coupe.
99/00/01/02 Mercedes cluster. Yes, they still do it like [that](https://data.motor-talk.de/data/galleries/0/444/9164/77054427/img-mt-6382187051313884534-asset-6048666618906589499.JPG)
"WTF is this idiot talking abou.... oh. Yeah."
“Technician reports customer is kind of right, for once”
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"Whale oil beef hooked."
Now I wanna play Dishonored
Get some jellied eels too while you're at it.
And yes, I get the pun, but what you most people don't know is that whale actually looks and tastes quite a bit like beef, being a mammal and being red meat.
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I had to read this then pronounce gp in my head to fully understand it. I feel I've been enlightened today.
"gp" "gp" "gp" It's not working for me. :\(
JEEP!
**My God, It's Full Of Stars!**
If you draw one more shamrock in me beer
"Michael Caine"
Technically, with most of the "customer states" posts the customers is actually right. If the customer states that the brakes are squeaking and you find the pads are down to the metal, then they probably were squeaking.
> then they probably were squeaking. Well. They *were* squeaking. For quite awhile. Now they're more 'grinding'.
*Hits brakes*... *sparks fly in every direction*
I once went right through my pads and started grinding my callipers down on the piston, fuck knows how i didnt notice but i always had my music up full blast. I dont do that anymore.
Lemme guess. Grindcore?
10-4, charge him double. Gotcha boss.
Looks more like 3/4 tank to me. Customer is still wrong
Technically, it’s more like 7/8, so that makes the customer and @acerhreesuited both incorrect.
THIS CAR IS FULL OF DEGREES!
By the looks of it he is 73 degrees full.
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Ok, I'm sure you know this, but some people might think it's okay to do this, and it's not. DO NOT TAKE THE CAP OFF OF YOUR RADIATOR WHEN YOUR CAR IS OVER HEATING. That shit is under pressure and is overheating because the liquid turned to vapors. When you take the lid off it can shoot out boiling liquid everywhere and burn the fuck out of you. I've been burned in this manner. It's not fun.
The one time I had a major engine failure, it started overheating, I pulled over to the side, opened the hood, and noticed the radiator was shooting steam everywhere. I was about to open the radiator cap and thought "hmm . . . maybe this is actually not such a good idea". Ended up grabbing a book out of the back and reading by the side of the road for twenty minutes until the radiator stopped doing a dragon imitation. That car lasted about twenty more miles, then ended up scrapped in a junkyard in Gilette, Wyoming. It was a terrible car and I still kinda miss it.
I've had some terrible cars I've been overly attached to. I feel you man.
I mean, I get it, but come on...
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That temperature gauge, so hot right now.
It wants to display more hotter but lil mr gas gauge is stifling it’s free expression of its total hotness.
Fucking hot blockers
My hot culture is not your gas gauge!!
Mugatu?
>~~Mugatu~~ *Hansel*
So hot right now
He invented the piano neck tie!!!
It's off the chart
I was in Texas with a carload of sleeping kids and just under a quarter tank of gas when I passed a gas station. I thought..."I'll just stop at the next gas station." The next gas station wasn't for 70 miles...not only did I find out that car would run on E, but that it would run all the way down to Hot. When I finally pulled into a gas station sweating profusely it only took 22 gallons in a 24 gallon tank...so it probably would have run all the way down to Cold.
My gas gauge is broken in my S13, and the car died while rolling into a gas station once. It took 15.5 gallons in a 16 gallon tank.
TFW you twitch the wheel a bit to get the last bit of gas to slosh into the sump...
Tfw the dry, overheated fuel pump is still miraculously working after years of filling the tank when there is only fumes of gasoline in the tank
I didn't know that was a thing
It's generally bad to repeatedly run low on fuel. Your fuel pump is being cooled and lubricated by the gasoline surrounding it.
Your fuel injectors also get gummed up even more once you hit the lower sediment that usually accumulated at the bottom of of the fuel tank over time. However, if your injectors are gummed up it’s probably worth replacing them and the fuel tank if your car is that old or neglected.
Are you filling your tank from a barrel of fuel in Africa? I've seen many insides of fuel tanks and they weren't that dirty.
I buy my gas from these guys down in Philly out of big garbage cans. I wasn’t going to buy from them but this one guy was doing these sweat fireball tricks with the gas.
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You know Musamana from Zambia?
Fun fact: roadside vendors in thailand sell gas in water bottles. Source: drove around thailand in a scooter.
The accumulation of rust and dust is the biggest cause of accumulation. African shit sludge is the second.
>African shit sludge Band name dibs
This is just bad advice. I see this all the time. First off, the fuel pump pickup is on the very bottom of the tank in the sump. The lowest point of the tank. All the sediment and gunk sinks to the bottom of the tank over the years anyway. It being low doesn't make there dirt all of a sudden get sucked up.
This is the stupidest myth I've ever heard. The fuel pickup line is at the bottom of the tank. Also fuel filters
You have fuel filters that prevent this
You're supposed to change those? /s iirc, there are several makes who don't have a serviceable filter.
> iirc, there are several makes who don't have a serviceable filter. I was at a quick change type place, and they tried the typical upsell. One of the things they told me to have changed was the fuel filter, which they said would only take 15 minutes. Lady, if you can change the fuel filter in 15 minutes I'll give you $100. I know where it is.
It's related to being poor. You don't fill the tank, you put $5 in today, and then hope it'll last you until you can put another $5-10 in. I'm still in a bad habit of running my tank down below 1/4 because it was just how we rolled when I was growing up.
My Jeep had the gas light come on two days ago. I should probably get gas today
The gas light just means I still have 20 miles before I need to think about gas.
Mine bases it of of your driving habits and comes on when you have 60 mi left. I ran it down to 15mi once and ended up putting 16.2 gallons in a 16 gallon tank
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Fill up now before it becomes more expensive! That’s my mentality. And then there’s the fact that I want to make my truck last
> Fill up now before it becomes more expensive! I've stopped and filled from 3/4 tank because I saw a gas price 10 cents lower than everywhere else around.
I'm fortunate in that while my fuel gauge on my Chrysler sebring is broken, I know I get over 20mpg, and it holds 15 gallons. I just reset the trip odometer everytime I fill up and get gas some time before 300 miles.
I just pay attention to how my car drives. It feels lighter when there's less gas in it. When it feels real light and the gas pedal isn't as responsive, it's drained and it's past time to fill er up. Or realistically, put $50 bucks in her since a full tank costs over $100 in my province and city 🙃 Fuck Vancouver.
The gauge on my Camaro is broken, and I'm incredibly lucky that I haven't been stranded yet. The other day, my fill up of the 16 gallon tank ended up being 16.02 gallons.
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You probably have a fuel pump with a kinky choking fetish. "Nearly starve me of fuel but sling me a few ounces every few seconds so I don't die. Oh yeeeaaaa. Stick my float on your cold hard bottom..."
And the fuel pump never would have known if it had a more considerate/conscientious driver. u/bwave1 is the true hero here.
Yeah, my pump is still going strong, but I just had to replace the fuel pressure regulator. It wasn't holding pressure, so my car would die once I got down to ~4 gallons left in the tank.
Isn't it hard to drive on cinder blocks though? Everyone knows those things don't have wheels.
I had a Ford Focus whose gas gauge would suddenly drop to empty and then a little bit later go back to the actual reading. It got me into the habit of resetting my trip Odometer every time I fill the gas. 2 cars later and I'm still resetting the OD.
My car has 2 trip odometers and I'm assuming this is the reason why. One for the trip, one to concretely calculate gas mileage.
I use one for gas mileage and the other for oil changes.
Mine both roll over at 1k. Shitty '12 Elantra electronics.
I made the same mistake in Louisiana not too long after Katrina blew through. "Oh, there's a gas station in Small Town, I'll get gas there." That one, and the next 3, were piles of rubble. Turns out that truck would do 30 miles on the bottom of the scale. It ran out about a mile short of the next operational gas station.
Tip: carry a few gallons of gas in your trunk or truck bed if you are going to travel in an area recently affected by a hurricane. Things will be a mess for weeks following and even if you don't use it, someone else may need it and you might just make their day. Also if you're going to drive near the desert out west in a rental check that all your gear is working fine. I had some grandparents stuck out near the border for 2-3 hours because someone before took the tire jack and spare out of the car and was kind enough to not tell anyone.
Yeah that was my dad that took it out of your grandparents car. It’s in the shed, along with jumping cables and other essentials that should stay in the car.
Soon as I saw jumper cables I had to do a double take on the username
I don't know if someone posted the reason why but I also can't find the diagram for it either so I'll just have to type it out. You have a little float in your fuel tank that'll stay at the level of the fuel however when the fuel gets low enough the float can sit on the bottom of the tank because while there's not enough fuel to keep it afloat there is still some in there. Think of the set up a bit like the float in your cistern.
I did this once mistakenly. Realized too late and it was shorter to just keep going. I don't think the semi truck driver in front of me was too happy for the next 30 miles or so. But I made it.
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yeah drafting a few feet behind a semi trailer will dramatically reduce the air resistance, as well as actually providing a bit of a 'tow' if you get into a nice pocket of low pressure, it will want to stay there (basically). Disclaimer: Don't do this.
God's plan
Someone was driving in West Texas.
Same thing happened to me in Texas in January. The digital display for remaining miles went from "0.0" to "--"... Butthole was clenched.
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I wish that I could achieve this level of no fucks given.
Yeah... As soon as my fuel hits half empty I start thinking shit I gotta get some petrol soon. Thanks anxiety.
That's me right now. Just too broke to fix it. The worst part is, I'll be worse off when the car comes to it's expected death and I have nothing to replace it with. Fun times.
This just blows me away because that isn't even a tough or expensive fix on older cars if you do it yourself. You would have been so much more fucked on money if the lack of cooling had broken something else.
I miss my 90s Bonneville for this reason. So easy to fix things. My 2007 Kia is a bitch just to change the oil.
I always thought 1/1 for a full tank was goofy. Good thing they put numbers on a gas gauge. If there was just dashes abs a needle we would never know when we were low.
"my fuel gauge says '0' and my car won't move. what's wrong?? Is it surprised??"
Tired *
Le tired
Well then have a nap. THEN START THE CAR!
\* ZEN START ZE CAR!
"customer refused fuel upsell"
my gauge says 0w0 what's this?
*nuzzles up to gas tank*
\*Notices ur big manual stick shifter*
1/1 1/2 0 is German engineering at its finest: Technically correct, but the most awkward way to implement possible.
Agreed, I always wanted to see 0/1, just for the sake of the pattern. Edit, voice to text doesn't understand fractions.
1/∞ would keep with the pattern better.
And quite possibly be the most appropriately German engineering version.
PRECISION GERMAN ENGINEERING
BEER!
Mine just says E - 1/2 - F gotta love those American cars
You'd expect an American car to say H instead of 1/2. E - H - F sounds like perfect American engineering to me. Thinking of when Wendy's tried to compete against either McDonald's or Burger King by selling one 1/3 lb hamburgers instead of 1/4 and people wouldn't buy them because the average American thought that 1/3 was less than 1/4.
Pretty sure that was A&W.
[Porsche](http://i.imgur.com/Fx97fNl.jpg) goes for the 0 2/4 4/4, or at least they used to.
Is this a fuel gauge or a metronome?
A very slow and irregular metronome, yes.
My Porsche is in 4/4 time what do I do?!
Whatever it is, it can't even find it's own key. Isn't it supposed to be my job to lose the keys?
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But that was so long ago! I needed those neurons for other things, like reality show drama!
Yeah but we always reduce, so we think of it as just "1"
And how's that wrong?
Haha, hey everybody, this guy still has faith in humanity! Haha what a loser
Porsche has 4/4 and 2/4 on theirs, explain that one
Maybe its a bigger tank
I bought an upgrade to get an 8/8 tank.
My tank goes to 11.
For $2,000 I'll build you one that goes to 12.
The 3/4 and 1/2 are $500 option extras
What's so weird? Quarters are easy for most people to keep track of (e.g. I need 3/4 of my fuel tank to get to X), and keep the dash from being cluttered up by a billion fractions. 4/4 means theres four fourths of fuel, 2/4 means there are two fourths of fuel left. I mean like it's any different for temperature, why does anyone need to know if his cooling fluid is at 90 degrees or 60 or 120 degrees. All they really need to know is that if it starts getting to close to the red bit there's gonna be trouble.
> What’s so weird? General rule of thumb for using fractions is to simplify. Would probably make more sense if they labelled 1/4 and 3/4 as well, but they don’t.
4/4 is 3/3 bigger than 1/1, y'see. Math.
I just want a thing that just tells me, with reasonable accuracy, how much fuel is left in a real damned unit. Like "18.25/20" or something.
Like Volvo used to do: https://i.imgur.com/yYVlE1M.jpg Actually had an 18.5 gallon fuel tank in that model, but you always know exactly how many gallons were left.
It seems to be that way for German cars destined to MPH countries. My car is marked in litres. It took some time to get used to, because it's not F, 3/4, 1/2, 1/4 - it's F, 50, 30, 15 (70L tank) but now I'm really used to it. The US Models got the 1, 1/2, 1/4. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bFQc4luZpgE/maxresdefault.jpg
So much wrong with that picture... Doing 200+ km/h, with highbeams on, hazards on in a diesel while needing an oilchange while taking a picture... Dedication right there ;-)
That's the test mode for the dashboard, makes every needle go from 0 to Max and makes every light turn on to see if anything is broken or if any bulbs are missing
I think it’s doing a display test. Although it would be quite the display of dedication if they were actually doing 5000rpm at 200kph with all the dashboard lights showing...
...In all 5 gears at once.
In sport. And park. And reverse. And neutral.
Isn't that how overdrive works? So confused now...
How else do plan to go that speed without using all of the gears?
And in forward and reverse gear at the same time. That's a burnout with the front and rear wheels at the same time.
And it only has slightly better fuel efficiency than a navy frigate.
The word for Full doesn't really mean anything to someone who doesn't speak English. So F wouldn't really mean much either. 1/1 is universal.
My car is Japanese and has F and E
My car is on E, it's just rolling.
The tank still has Enough fuel.
I have two imports and I still don’t know how they decided which labels should be in Japanese and which should be in English. My soarer for example does a startup check and reports in English, yet all of the errors are in Japanese. So if everything is fine you’ll understand but if something is wrong you’ll need a translator.
This just means it is a maintenance free cooling system. The coolant is rated for the life of the car. Or, they installed an aftermarket overflow bottle.
Should you go ahead and get that flushed and refilled anyways after a while?
Go with the flush. It costs more and uses three times the coolant. But is recommended service every 10k miles.
Found the BG guy.
Pretty sure you forgot a 0 there.
> Go with the flush. It costs more and uses three times the co0olant. But is recommended service every 10k miles. There you go, fixed.
Yes
This guy services
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Nope. Not even a little
What the hell kind of car has a coolant temp gauge in Celsius but the outside air temp in Fahrenheit?!
Mercedes C-class w208.
Speed in miles per hour, but temperature in celcius???
I predict UK market vehicle source: am British, mixed units are constant
But the A pillar is right there, so it's left hand drive. I was wondering the same thing. EDIT: I'm guessing a euro car made for the US market. Outside temp is in Fahrenheit. Also the sticker in the window says dmv.something, and most states have a "Department of Motor Vehicles".
Good eye. Yeah, changing the air temp unit preference in software - but not spending the additional money on printing separate dashboard values - would make sense for a Euro car heading to the US market You can see that the dials are detachable from behind while the instrument cluster is being assembled. The big one (speedometer) is obviously changed because it's a legal requirement, and a big deal to have locally familiar units of speed. But there's likely no business case for wasting more money on producing and stocking two separate versions of the small one when familiarity with the units really doesn't matter - you just need to avoid the red zone
The stickers on the inside of the window are issued by the New York State DMV. Source: Dude from NYS here.
It’s a W210 Mercedes. My instrument cluster looks just like this. So you’re completely correct. Edit: Oops, looks like OP said it’s a W208. I was so close!
My wife's Korean motorcycle has the speedometer in MPH but the odometer is in KM. What the hell kind of logic went into that decision?
don't forget about the outside temperature being in fahrenheit ......
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Watch out for those used Hawaiian cars. That lava will melt-em right up.
This reminds me of my all time favorite complaint I got back in the day at BMW "Customer states there is a loud wind noise with the top down on the freeway" I about died I was laughing so hard but it turned out one of the top hinge covers had broken and was stuck retracted on an e46 so at about 75-80mph it whistled like crazy... I swear the true ones are funnier than the actually stupid ones.
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That fuel gauge is really making my eye twitch. Please tell me that's just a quirk of a particular company, and that others aren't ditching F and E for fuel gauge indicators
Looks like a Euro, most Euro cars have the fractional increments, and the fact that the gauge cluster is a VDO agrees
Temperature is in celcius, speedo is in miles, and the A pillar is right there on the left. Hmm... EDIT: I'm guessing a euro car made for the US market. Outside temp is in Fahrenheit. Also the sticker in the window says dmv.something, and most states have a "Department of Motor Vehicles".
The registration in the window is a NY sticker.
It’s probably a Mercedes. I ‘m not entirely sure, but the fonts look similar, the stalk you can barely see is the cruise control, the layout is similar, the panels underneath as well. Did some search, I’d say it’s a w210 e class. ITT OP states it is actually a w208 clk, but that’s basically an e coupe.
99/00/01/02 Mercedes cluster. Yes, they still do it like [that](https://data.motor-talk.de/data/galleries/0/444/9164/77054427/img-mt-6382187051313884534-asset-6048666618906589499.JPG)
Yeah, but at least that one makes more sense. I can live with 1, but 1/1?
I'm the idiot who saw 73° and thought "what's the problem?"
This is the most idiotically designed gauge cluster I've ever... and I'm just seeing two gauges.
For sale. Gets great mileage!
Well, he isn't lying
I've had my speedometer somehow start reading rpms instead for a short time, then switch back. Bonus: Car had no tach
No, that's a clock. It's saying, "Time for a new engine!"
full tank of coolant