that thing on the side

It isn’t an indicator is it ? An optional extra that only gets fitted to one side of the car ?

Or a skirt lifter.

Taxi drivers ariel?

Its for the diplomatic flag

Flag holder? For a mayors or some such official car?
Or a semi covert sight for a rocket launcher.

Aiming sight to assist in knocking over cyclists

Old fashioned parking sensor – when it moves you’ve hit the wall….

All big cars used to have them in Taiwan when I lived there but on both sides. It was because the Chinese people are so small they couldn’t see over the bonnet. I shit you not!

I love the idea that Mercedes might have a flag holder as a factory option 🙂

All big cars used to have them in Taiwan when I lived there but on both sides. It was because the Chinese people are so small they couldn’t see over the bonnet. I shit you not!

Good idea but wouldn’t it be more useful at the very front corner of the car?

It’s a dipstick. Or is that the driver. Maybe it’s the sensor to detect when to open and close the vents on the bumper when the fog lights overheat from continual use.

It’s a corner marker. It doesn’t really matter how tall you are (within reason) because 1) seats are height adjustable 2) you can’t see the very edge of the corner anyway.

I’m not surprised it’s an import (based on the strange square UK spec front plate) as things like this usually make MOT testers all frowny.

These sorts of things are popular in places where ‘more is more’ is fashionable and subtly isn’t.

Parking pole or bumper pole, very JDM.

You see them fitted to a lot of Japanese ‘Kei’ cars as well, which strikes me as a bit odd, ‘cos they’re tiny by definition, and often very boxy, so the corners are right where you expect them to be.
You can even get them with a light on the top, for parking in the dark, Seiko make them!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Seiko-Japan-EW-15-Safety-Bumper-Guard-Corner-Antenna-Pole-Light-Universal-Car-/292341394708?ul_ref=https%253A%252F%252Frover.ebay.com%252Frover%252F1%252F711-53200-19255-0%252F1%253Ficep_ff3%253D2%2526pub%253D5574933636%2526toolid%253D10001%2526campid%253D5337487963%2526customid%253D%2526mpre%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww%25252Eebay%25252Ecom%25252Fitm%25252FSeiko-Japan-EW-15-Safety-Bumper-Guard-Corner-Antenna-Pole-Light-Universal-Car-%25252F292341394708%2526srcrot%253D711-53200-19255-0%2526rvr_id%253D1846950188759%2526rvr_ts%253Dbe0e94b71680ab199644d21efff86771&ul_noapp=true

Is it the ariel for atonomous driving or used to beat the peasants back in the Waitrose carpark?

Upskirt shot gimble.

Along with courgettes,upskirt shot gimbles are banned 😉

Along with courgettes,upskirt shot gimbles are banned

….. especially in the same photo.

Diplomatic flagstaff.

When we had a mazda Bongo Friendee it had a motorised telescopic corner marker with a little green light.
That Benz is not a thing of beauty is it? As an owner of a S205…

You’re all wrong. It’s for locating the car in a car park. There would usually be a huge ball of string on that – it’s a spool. Simply exit the car and grab the string, hence leaving a trail right back to the car after a trip to the shops.

Looks like the fast AMG model

but yeah, needs that corner marker taking off and a proper number plate fitting quickly. wouldnt look to bad then.

With that much power and in white you could do a German remake of the Taxi films.

I wonder if this man has one of those aerials on his car?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47128670

These sorts of things are popular in places where ‘more is more’ is fashionable and subtly isn’t.

My brain hurts.

When posting links like that you can remove the question mark and everything after it like this –

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Seiko-Japan-EW-15-Safety-Bumper-Guard-Corner-Antenna-Pole-Light-Universal-Car-/292341394708

Doesn’t that look much more neat and tidy?

@Mister P – thank you for your kind instructions, it was something about which I was completely unaware, having used the Internet for years, nineteen on here.
“Doesn’t that look much more neat and tidy?”
Yes, but it also comes across as condescending and patronising.

Mister P

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When posting links like that you can remove the question mark and everything after it like this –

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Seiko-Japan-EW-15-Safety-Bumper-Guard-Corner-Antenna-Pole-Light-Universal-Car-/292341394708

Doesn’t that look much more neat and tidy?

I prefer the original

Edit: **** hell! You can quote someone’s name now and it doesn’t add a million lines of html or whatever it was anymore. Is this forum finally usable?

Looks like a genuine W211 E63. Beast of a car. 6.2litre engine. 0-60 in 4 seconds. Produced from 2006 onwards.

it was something about which I was completely unaware, having used the Internet for years, nineteen on here.

And yet you still chose to post a URL ten lines long?

That would last all of a week parked on the streets, soon be adorning some students bedroom especially with it having the little Merc badge atop.

selfy stick

@Mister P – thank you for your kind instructions, it was something about which I was completely unaware, having used the Internet for years, nineteen on here.

Then this will blow your mind