When I listen to my iPod in the Mercedes C300, I choose a play list, hook it up in the glove box, then I can control it on the steering wheel. To advance to the next track I push the down arrow on the left of the steering wheel. It's the opposite in the Cadillac CTS. In the Caddy, you push the up arrow to skip tracks. Either way is fine.
But today I forgot my iPod. To quell my separation anxiety I loaded a CD into the Benz's audio system. But now to advance tracks I need to press the up arrow. What the heck?
Donna DeRosa, Managing Editor
carguy622 says:
07:17 PM, 12/18/08
Good post, very funny. Don't you just love it when interfaces are not consistent.
billt9 says:
07:50 PM, 12/18/08
That sounds infuriating. I hope they can patch that problem in existing cars.
stovt001 says:
08:59 PM, 12/18/08
Weird. My sympathies.
frazier500 says:
11:45 PM, 12/18/08
Perhaps in iPod mode they just wanted to simulate the act of going down a playlist.
dougtheeng says:
06:01 AM, 12/19/08
That's a hideous gauge. The C-class gauge cluster is atrocious.
ddoouugg says:
07:12 AM, 12/19/08
Maybe different teams designed the cd and ipod interfaces and they had different ideas as to how the buttons should work. Maybe MB never really combined them well enough or didn't notice.
MS3lvr92 says:
02:57 PM, 12/19/08
I hate when cars have mismatched functions like that. Especially on rentals. It adds a lot of initial head scratching confusion.
carfreak8394 says:
06:12 PM, 12/19/08
That's one of the things that would bother me if I owned this car. Just like the G8's steering wheel.
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