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Genre: Autos & Vehicles
Date of upload: Dec 29, 2020 ^^
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As a german i can help you with the buttons: 1. ABS Button = it's the antiblocking system (while offroading you didn't want the system to intervent). 2. the warning light (as you said, in germany they are mostly working vehicles, most of them have warning lights). 3. heated side mirrors
btw: In germany i have never seen an unimog with automatic transmission, normaly they have at least 2 manual transmissions with at least 12 gears.
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Doug, when reviewing specialty vehicles, do consult someone who actually uses them. Cruise control is quite important if you're driving 20 km/h with a salt spreader attached to the PTO... leaving aside the other oversights in the review of this car-shaped tractor. Also, air brakes. They don't work the same as ordinary hydraulic brakes. The pressure gauges are there to tell you whether you CAN move, as no pressure = brakes applied, and you need to wait for the compressor to do its thing.
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After driving MTVs in the Army, I can only imagine how fun it must be to have a truck this size for personal use. I always loved being able to see literally everything all around me, and the air brakes were so responsive compared to other vehicles with air brakes I had driven, and given the unimog's reputation I have no doubt that it's anything but better.
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The coloured circles on the back and front... they're not electrical connectors, they're hydraulic connectors, that's also what the joystick is for, controlling the hydraulics, the two switches you didn't know, the first one is for a beacon, the one is for the heated mirrors, no rear window because that rear section isn't stock, from stock they would have a rear window. Hope all this helps!
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First of all: Those "Power Outlets" are actually hydraulic ports, not electric ones. You can use them for quite a variety of hydraulic tools, like for example Snowploughs, Mowers, etc... Some of these Tools are specifically made for the Unimog and approved by Mercedes-Benz. You operate them with the Joystick (which starts to quite make sense when you think of driving with a Snowplough), after you preselected the hydraulic ports you want to use.
The "Tire hanging on a Pole"-Switch is simply for heated mirrors, the Rabbit/Donkey-Switch reduces all gears of the normal gearbox about half for better torque when in Off-Road use.
Cruise Control isn't really a luxury feature on an Unimog, in fact you wonât get one without it. Its main use (beside the function as a Cruise Control while driving) is to be able to keep the engine running at a certain speed in standstill. This is very useful when you use those hydraulic tools mentioned earlier (for example a crane), or when you order your Unimog with an front and/or rear output-shaft for direct engine driven tools. (Which this Unimog doesnât have.) Itâll also probably dump a little bit faster if you rev the engine or set it to certain revs with this lever.
All in all itâs quite funny to see Doug being that excited about a vehicle that is very common and seemingly known by heart from every tec-interested child in Europe. :D
Ah and before I forget: you can order your Unimog with an air horn (âĂberlandhorn/Overland-hornâ) in addition to the âcity-hornâ this one has. ;-)
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Another funny thing about this specific UNIMOG-variant (there's two general variants, one for heavy off-road duties and one for communal use). With this communal variant you can usually take off parts of the dashboard and bring the steering column and pedals to the other side â the dashboard fits back in on the previous driving side â in case you are having a mowing arm attached at the front or so and you need to see what it's doing.
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Well this Unimog is really has rather common features compared to duty vehicels here in Germany and basically seems like a fusion between the big trucks we use for delivering loads of material and the back tilts to dump stuff like Sand. Dependig on how accessible the place to unload the truck is, you decide on wich way to tilt it.
The rabbit donky button is also a thing that is common in Power shovels and Wheel loaders, tho sometimes its a rabbit and a turtle, wich let you decide on how fine you can maneuver.
The sunshade and other feautures we got in our Mercedes flat lorrys, the "Pritschen wagen", but they probably originated in the unimog.
Love from cologne Germany, everybody have a good Start in 2023. Peace
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Tons of cheap European hatchbacks used to have power windows in front but not in the back up until pretty recently. Interesting to see that that's so uncommon in the US. Also, as mentioned in the beginning, the rear cabin was added later and by the looks of it pretty custom, so yeah blame whoever added it for having no rear window, not the Unimog itself.
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@MKylander
3 years ago
Unimogs aren't slow pickups, they're fast tractors.
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