190E Mirrors - Why?

[Mr Will]

My 190E (and I assume other Mercs of a similar age) has a tall mirror on the passenger side and a wider but shorter one on the drivers side.

Now I'm sure this was done for a reason, but does anyone know why Mercedes designed them like this?

[jdw1234]

Parrallel parking assistance?

I.e. does it give field of vision to spy the curb?

[iluvmercs]

I've heard a couple of suggestions, as to the reason, for this.
One, and I guess most likely, it the parallel parking.
Another one I heard was an attempt to decrease blind spots for the off side while driving.

Darren

[ClassicMercs]

A similar confusion is the rear fog light. Note I use the word in the singular. If you look you think there should be two but only one is operational. I'm told the rational is that folks behind then know its a fog light and when you hit the brakes they don't have an excuse that they have not observed the brighter brake light, clearly evident on the side which hasn't got the for light.
From memory its the offside which has the fog light.

[iluvmercs]

ClassicMercs said:

A similar confusion is the rear fog light. Note I use the word in the singular. If you look you think there should be two but only one is operational. I'm told the rational is that folks behind then know its a fog light and when you hit the brakes they don't have an excuse that they have not observed the brighter brake light, clearly evident on the side which hasn't got the for light.
From memory its the offside which has the fog light.

I'm not 100% which foglight is active, but the space is present in the opposite rear light cluster.
This is for the wrong-hand-drive countries

On my current (and previous) W124 Mercedes, I have had my mechanic patch a wire over from the active fog light and a bulb installed, so I've always had two rear fogs

It certainly seems a little daft that they didn't do this to begin with!

Darren

Edited by iluvmercs on Thursday 11th February 22:06