Thread: Datacard codes - country codes [what differs]

Hello from Down Under,
I notice that Australian delivered MB vehicles have a code 625 Australia version. Other examples of country codes are 623 Gulf States version, 491 US version, 494 California version, 498 Japan version.

I have asked several MB dealer people here, and they don't seem to know precisely what it is.
It makes sense that headlights for LH drive are fitted, and a full size spare tyre, but these are often separate codes in their own right. Probably the engine emission specifications are included in the ECU coding, and any radio/COMAND system would have to work with Australian broadcast frequencies.

Hence the burning question - what precisely is fitted for 625 Australia version?
I hope you can give me an answer

Kind Regards
David

The option codes control lots of parts on the cars. I tend only to look at electronics and the most common things that change via the different country codes are
Audio systems
Map disks
Instrument cluster
Frequencies and range of the remote locking (i.e all the parts relating to that)
Tyre pressure monitoring frequencies (i.e different parts)
Garage door opener frequencies. (i.e different parts)

With 494 and 498 there are lots more changes though (North America and Japan) - I don't know much else about what is different in Australia - perhaps BenzModz knows.

The only way to know every difference is to spend a lot of time with EPCnet (online parts catalogue)

You can subscribe for a year for very little money here:

Daimler AG - Service & Parts net

Richard

Hi Richard,
thanks for the reply. I have more or less deduced a fair bit by comparing option lists from Aust, the UK, and Sth Africa (all in English). A few years ago I was trying to compare C Class prices to see if it would be a proposition to import a UK car, rather than pay the premium at a local dealer.

It seemed to me then that UK cars had folding mirrors as standard (narrow roads and lanes!), but not necessarily heat resistant glass, for example (hot climate stuff). From memory steel wheels and cloth seats were standard in the UK, whereas in Aust anything above the very bottom had alloy wheels and MB-Tex or whatever they call it now, and real leather was an option.

Food for thought
Kind regards
David

The UK keys which open and close the car are on a different frequency. Therefore it can not be easily supplied in Australia as a replacement.

There are some annoying defaults in the cluster sometimes and the other options are relatively trivial differences.