So then guys you've just picked up your Mercedes
and are probably wondering what all the buttons do!
However something that a lot of people ask is....
What are the buttons on the steering wheel?
Well that is exactly what we're going to run through today all the buttons
on the various Mercedes-Benz that you can buy pretty much out there today.
And we're starting off with one that was made a few years ago.
So covering the steering wheel design that kind of
existed roughly it would have been about 2012 to 2016-ish around about that time.
They kind of look a bit like this and basically there's up
down left and right buttons on the left hand side, an ok button and
the back button all for controlling the screen directly in front of you.
Going through like your trip computer to see MPG (miles per gallon) or range
or how you're doing with kind of statistical information you basically just select these
and kind of go through the different menu options like this and of course then you
can go left and right as well and then over on the right hand side you have a couple of
phone buttons so you've got one to answer the phone, one to hang up on the phone or
send people to voicemail then there's a picture of a kind of mouth speaking.
Which kind of lets you give voice commands to the car.
Now this does depend on which multimedia system you have for example this one here
is a Garmin Map Pilot which only gives you commands for the sat nav, but if you have
COMAND spelt with one 'M', this is one of the upgraded multimedia systems at the time.
This will then allow you to do commands for other things in the car as well so
it just depends on what multimedia system you have and then finally you've got the
volume up and down buttons with a mute button over there as well.
There is a hidden actually thing on this type of steering wheel so for example if I go to
Radio just make sure that's turned down if you hold the mute button you can actually put on
the traffic alerts or traffic announcements and hold mute again and then that will go back off.
So quite useful thing is you do make use of those those alerts are the ones that
kind of announce I think it's every half an hour or every hour of the kind of local
traffic where you are just in case you don't want to look at the sat nav live traffic.
But yes that's the steering wheel there some cars also do have flappy paddles behind so
you can adjust gears manually using those this particular car is a manual.
Quite rare in Mercedes actually because
quite a lot of them are automatic and then the stuff behind the steering where you've
got your of course your indicators like normal, wipers just on the end
and then of course your full Beam by pulling towards you and full beam push away from you.
And then underneath on this particular design we have the cruise control and speed limiter
but I do have a separate video on cruise control speed limiter which I will link up above.
So that is this steering wheel lets move on to the next design
and show you what all the buttons do on that one there are a few new ones
on that one and the cruise control has moved to a slightly different place.
So jumping into a newer car with a newer style
steering wheel you'll notice instantly that there are well way more buttons!
Which is kind of a good thing because now you can have both hands on the steering
wheel and literally control virtually almost everything on the steering wheel itself so
there's dedicated buttons to do certain things now if you split a line down the
middle this is where Mercedes-Benz ingenuity and design comes from...
Pretty much the left hand side of this controls things over on the left hand
side of the car and then the right hand side controls things over on the right
hand side so that's quite clever just to kind of have that split down the middle.
So starting out on top left you have a back button a touchpad and a home button those control the
left screen so most of the time you'll use a wheel kind of down in the middle here or a touch pad.
Some models have a touch screen in the middle but you usually do have this up here as well
so you can make use of those buttons to pretty much control everything on the screen as well.
Buttons underneath very similar to the car which I saw we've got the
answer and hang up buttons these like a toggle switch you move them up or down.
So either answer a phone or hang up or send someone to voicemail.
After this we have the volume button so you literally just swipe this up
or down it is also a button it's a little mute symbol just there
on the bottom but yeah volume up and down just like that mute button in the middle.
The one next to this is a picture of like a person speaking so this is the voice assistant.
On some models this then depends on your multimedia system if you
have COMAND like this one there's various commands that you can give.
In fact I've actually done a video on the Top 10 Commands
that you can do on the system so be sure to check that out on the banner
up above if you want to see all the various commands that you can give.
Quite simply just nudge it up and then you'll hear a beep and then
you can give a command to the car based on what's shown on the screen.
Now I'm just going to press the...
Car: Cancel
Back or cancel button because
I don't heard talking at the moment that's why I'm trying to do this.
The star just underneath is the final button on the left hand side this is a favourites button
so favourites button I have covered before but basically it's your own customised menu
and primarily most of the time this is where all of your Sat Nav favourites are saved.
But you can actually make use of this menu and pretty much control and put anything
in here you could put your favourite radio stations your favourite contacts.
But I said most people use it for their favourite
Sat Nav destinations because then it's only a couple of clicks away.
And then finally moving to the right hand side this is where some of these changes
have happened so you have a home button, a touchpad and a back button identical
to the left side but because it's on the right this will do the right hand screen.
So you can swipe this up and down just like this with this touchpad and go through these
various settings press the home button and then you can swipe left or right.
And if you happen to be in a menu that you didn't mean to go into there is a
back button to go back one step so that is how that bit works.
Of course there's various designs and themes and things you can primarily
do especially if this is a digital screen in here
digital instrument cluster you can customise a lot of elements on that!
And then finally underneath this are the cruise control buttons
so we've got cruise control, limiter, set resume and cancel.
Basically in a nutshell and the easiest way of remembering the order of these buttons
from left to right on the left hand side choose cruise control or limiter.
So you choose what you want first and then with the set buttons you kind of choose your
desired speeds you just kind of nudge that kind of thing up or down just like this.
So obviously set plus up puts the speed up down down.
And then RES is resume and then cancel is just underneath.
So basically from left to right you choose what you want, turn it on and
then turn it off just so it happens to be a resume button on the end as well.
The only exceptions to this are cars fitted with the Driving Assistance Package a couple of buttons
will have moved around to accommodate some of the more advanced functions that it offers.
So you'll have Active Distance Assist Distronic here,
adjusting your distance to the car in front, set your speed, cancel and resume on the end.
Basically on cars with this package the back
and the home button here for controlling the screen are combined into one button.
So guys that is a video on all of the Mercedes-Benz buttons on the steering wheel.
So what about if you want to know more?
Well I've got a dedicated video playlist on tips and tricks here so be sure to check that one out
as I guarantee you there's probably a tip and trick in there you didn't know!
There's over a hundred of them!
Guys thanks so much for watching!
Huge shout out to these guys Sandown Mercedes-Benz
as they help provide access to all these awesome cars on the videos!
See you next week!