Yep…

Im surprised my S Class has manual seatbelt height adjusters.

 

This is what I mean about the HUD, kinda pointless with the digital speedometer right there.

 

Even looking down at the speedometer that close takes your attention off of the road more than you think

 

You're not looking down... it's in your eyesight.

That pic wasn't ideal from the driver's POV bc the HUD is hard to see in cameras for pics. But look how nice and high up the digital speed is in the gauge cluster, it's something you can read without diverting your eyes while driving.

 

Theres a reason why they use HUDs in fighter jet applications, the adjustment of your focus increases reaction time.

Now with that said, does it matter in a car? Probably not.

 

It flashes red whether you have HUD on or not if you come up on something, so the reaction time will be minimized anyway.

I do like that feature.

Ah, another observation. The power steering wheel is very quiet, quieter than in the Benz and significantly quieter than my LX. They did sweat the details.

 

Doesn't matter because they are all looking at their cell phones anyway. Haha

 

Lol true. Believe it or not I pull over 9 times out of 10.

 

I think fighter jet engineers know…but like I said it likely doesn’t matter in a car.

Its also much newer. It may not stay that quiet.

Haha, true

 

TIL that radiator caps can break. Was wondering where the coolant was going ever so slowly (to the point of wondering whether I'm crazy or not) for like a year or so. No overheating or anything of the sort - I just noticed that the coolant level hit "low" - in the summer... and then had to disassemble the thermostat housing to get the plunger - use a magnet straight away >_<.

 

Oh for sure. I had a bad coolant reservoir cap on my S560 and couldn't figure out why the coolant was low.

 

At least you didn't have to fish out broken parts (or so I hope, given the design)

 

it’s like why did they overthink it?

 

No, luckily I just saw the seepage finally and replaced the cap. In my car the reservoir is hidden, so until I took the cover off myself I couldn't see the seepage. I would just get a low coolant warning and take it to the dealer and they just put coolant in it and sent me on my way

 

No seepage here, I guess it just... slowly boiled off (edit: away) or something?

Regardless, problem solved, one more thing to add to the "change with the oil" list... or at least every year or something.