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what does this control do?
« on: 19 January 2006, 04:21 AM »
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scroll down to the pictures of the centre consol, whats the additional wood surround and knob for, I've never seen this on an australian W116
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Re: what does this control do?
« Reply #1 on: 19 January 2006, 08:00 AM »
According to the owner from the M-100.cc forum;
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The dial is for the old German traffic radio. You could tune to the channel for the locale where you were driving and you would be notified of any congestion or road problems. Pretty sophisticated stuff for the 1970s!

That is a nice car indeed.
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Re: what does this control do?
« Reply #2 on: 20 January 2006, 07:58 AM »
Good find and nice pics.  It's interesting to note that some 2005 VW vans I drive at work have a "news" mode on one of the multifunction buttons on the cd head unit.  From memory, the manual said something about traffic news.

I thought that was a cool gadgety feature in this day and age let alone being around in the '70s.  Surely there must have been other cars that utilised a presumably free traffic radio broadcast too.

Anyone know if this is a European phenomenon or strictly German?
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