Mercedes G class locking differentials?

"The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123" (mattp123)
12/20/2013 at 14:05 • Filed to: None

Or trying to call somebody in Chicago? Why? Why?! WHY?! would you put them in 312 order? OCD overload.

DISCUSSION (18)

Textured Soy Protein > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 14:08

I don't know what the 3-1-2 means but it's clearly front-center-rear.

MoparKetchup > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 14:09

Kinja'd!!!

This is what a Mercedes G Class owner looks like with the 312 order.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > Textured Soy Protein
12/20/2013 at 14:11

Yea. F C R would have made more sense than 3 1 2.

Hermann > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 14:11

Ordered front to rear

Numbered by rank of coolness if locked.

Textured Soy Protein > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 14:17

Actually, I think I figured it out.

It's the order Mercedes recommends you should engage the diff locks. So lock the center diff first, then rear, then front.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 14:18

people in/from Chicago get upset when you call their beer threehundredandtwelve, so I do.

Textured Soy Protein > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
12/20/2013 at 14:20

My grandma who lives on the south side was pissed when her area code changed from 312 to 773.

She also got pissed when Marshall Field's moved Frango chocolate production out of a Chicago factory to somewhere else, and when Macy's bought Marshall Field's.

And when the Sears Tower became Willis Tower, and when the Standard Oil/Amoco building became Aon Center.

She likes her Chicago institutions.

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > Hermann
12/20/2013 at 14:23

Because FWD is for 3rd place plebs.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > Textured Soy Protein
12/20/2013 at 14:25

Wait? The almighty MB driver has to do that themselves? In order?

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > Textured Soy Protein
12/20/2013 at 14:30

I was a 312. I'm now a 773. I hate Macy's. I still call it the Sears Tower . I still call it the Standard Oil Building. I still call it Comiskey. I feel her pain. Despite having this in common with your grandma, I will probably still clash with her because she is a south sider and I'm a north sider. Suck it Jon Stewart.

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HammerheadFistpunch > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 14:44

I suspect its because of German OCD that they wanted the one most used to be center, then right to left. I.e. you will use the center often, the rear occasionally and the front rarely.

Textured Soy Protein > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 14:46

Think of it this way: when they get high centered on a berm in a mall parking lot, the numbers tell them they should first try locking the center diff, then rear, then front.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > HammerheadFistpunch
12/20/2013 at 14:57

Yea, I get that. But then why bother with numbers. Or being manual at all. Mercedes knows best. They know when to brake for you. They know when to stay in your lane. They even know when you should wake up behind the wheel. Why trust the driver to choose which differentials to lock.

HammerheadFistpunch > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 14:58

Liability - if they lock the front and then you try to turn...good luck with that. At least with buttons its like a little "I accept the terms and agreements" each time.

Cajun Ginger > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 15:06

I refuse to call it anything but the sears tower.

It's a "Porch-uh" > MoparKetchup
12/20/2013 at 15:21

Ha! Many lolz from that.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > HammerheadFistpunch
12/20/2013 at 15:26

I'm sure the all-knowing Benz knows when the lowly driver tries to take control and turns the wheel. Thus as soon as the wheel is off center, it could unlock it?

HammerheadFistpunch > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
12/20/2013 at 16:01

The trouble with mechanical lockers is they don't always do as they're told...at least not right away. So what would happen is the computer would send a signal to the diff but it may not unlock right away, or at all. It takes a little wiggle and jiggle to unlock and lock sometimes.