Hey guys and welcome to the channel! My name is nick O'Leary!
Now today we're having a look at 10 things you didn't know about your Mercedes!
However if this is the first video that you're watching on my channel,
did you know I have almost another 80 videos ranging from reviews,
tutorials, tips and tricks and even walkthrough guides as well.
So if you want to know more about your Mercedes do check out those videos directly after this
one but anyway onwards with today's video...10 things you didn't know about your Mercedes!
Now of course Mercedes-Benz known for their luxury models,
they also do prioritise some other things and one of those things is safety.
Now in some selected Mercedes-Benz they also feature a thing called Active Bonnet just
like this car here. Now of course for safety reasons do not try this at home and I won't
be doing this for safety reasons as well! But basically if you did end up hitting someone,
if your car does feature Active Bonnet, the rear of the bonnet can actually fire up and
act like a spring kind of softening and dampening that impact and it could save that person's life.
As I said it is for pedestrians and things like that just in the event
of an accident but thanks to your EURO NCAP I do have a clip here of in action.
And as you can see it is very very fast, now I mean watch it again in slow motion!
You can see the rear of the bonnet fire up and act like that spring. Only in a Mercedes.
Now next up did you know that every Mercedes-Benz has a thing called Attention Assist? And quite
simply attention assist will monitor your driving for the first few minutes of every journey
and then compare it to how you're driving kind of later down the line.
Now just be aware that this is only active from 37 mph and above, so it's designed for those
long kind of monotonous journeys on like a dual carriage or a motorway or something like that.
But quite simply it will take that driving style of how you're driving when you're fully awake
and then it will compare it to how you're driving potentially when you're tired
and if it does detect any variables it can then suggest up on the screen
you might need to take a break. Pretty neat!
But just remember it's only active at 37 mph and above and it's designed for those long journeys
at high speeds while you're in one lane for the entire time and not at slow speeds in the city.
Ah! Now Active Brake Assist now this is a standard feature found again on virtually all Mercedes-Benz
and it features a kind of radar at the very top of the windscreen or somewhere on the bumper
(depending on the model) and it's looking for objects kind of approaching the car really really
quickly. Now this is the red warning triangle that you may have seen on your dashboard. Yes it does
do that kind of distance indicator but it does do some extra things as well. Now of course for
safety reasons again I can't demonstrate this unless i had like a closed circuit or a closed
track or something but again EURO NCAP have come to the rescue they have of course tested this many
many times as you can see a car traveling here at speed it can stop very very very quickly.
Now as I said it is a safety system, but there are a few stages to this.
So stage one is the visual identification with the
red warning triangle on the dashboard. Stage two is an audible beep like this:
"Active Brake Assist Beeping"
And stage three is when the car can autonomously bring the car to a stop if it thinks you're going
to crash into something. Now of course again please do not try this at home
but it could save your life one day so it's a very very good feature to have!
And then the last of the safety systems before we move on to other things,
Active Lane Keeping Assist is commonly being found on new cars these days. And so for example it's
in this one here and the way you can identify if you have it in your car is by this symbol
just here which is a picture of a car with kind of two line markings going up the side of it.
Now when it's grey, it's inactive but when it's green it is active and on
and the way this works is when it's green and on it's scanning for white lines on the road and
if you veer over one of those lane markings it can actually jolt you back into lane. So
it's only designed as a safety system for that but there again if you use your indicators it
will actually turn that system off like straight away. So it's very very good to know that if you
do have it do make sure you use these because otherwise if you do drift over a lane marking,
it could jot you back and you might not be expecting it. But there again is a safety system
so it's really really good just in case you're distracted talking to someone behind you and then
you accidentally drift over it could jot you back and bring your attention back to driving again.
Now moving away from some safety systems in your Mercedes-Benz let's move onto
the other topics and up next is the HOLD feature which is incredibly useful for every journey.
Now this one always amazes me that hardly anyone ever knows about this one but this is the HOLD.
So yes did you know that your Mercedes-Benz has a HOLD mode? And no I'm not talking about
the one on a hill where the car won't roll back it will only go forward when you're in drive.
No I'm talking about the extra press on the brake pedal
and to be honest it's probably easier if we just jump in this and I'll show you how it works.
Now the HOLD feature is especially useful around town with lots of stop start traffic
mainly because when you come to a stop at travel lights with automatics
normally you have to keep your foot on the brake pedal to stop them creeping forward.
Now you can use this whole feature on practically any modern Mercedes-Benz, it's available on
Plug-in Hybrids, electric, auto and even manual as well. So the way it works is when you come to
a complete stop so here i'm just going to put my foot on the brake pedal, come to a complete stop
now what you'd normally do is keep your foot on the brake pedal because if you take it off
you'll start to go forward. So what you do with your foot on the brake pedal,
while it's on the brake pedal give it a short and very sharp press down to
the floor just like that and then on the screen you will see the words HOLD appear.
And the car will literally hold in this mode, I can take my feet away from the pedals
and it won't move forward of course when you're ready to go just accelerate, and off you go!
Now if you're lucky enough to own a new Mercedes-Benz with the new style key which
is a bit like this one then you're in luck! It's actually got a motion sensor built inside of it
and the reason for this is actually to save power when it's not in use. But also to help
try and prevent those keyless theft attacks that we keep hearing about in the news.
So for example to give a live demo the other key I've got there at the moment
on the inside (the spare key) and I've left it there, so no one's touched it for about five
minutes now and just to be absolutely fair just going to remove this key from the whole
situation and if I lean in and press the start stop button, in theory it shouldn't actually
turn on or do anything it should just say "Key not Detected" so let's give it a go.
There you go: "Place the key in the marked space. See Owner's Manual."
So there we go and as soon as I move that key then of course it would work.
So what happens if you don't have one of the latest keys well Mercedes-Benz of thought
of view as well so if you press the lock button twice on your key just like this,
you'll notice that the red LED flashes twice which then means the whole key is off. Not
only does it save power but also stops against those KEYLESS-GO theft attacks.
Now this one's a nice easy one but it's quite common I believe in most cars but
I thought i'd bring it up anyway just because it's not really written anywhere
as such. And I do kind of classify it as a as a hidden feature but basically it's controlling
the volume of specific things on your sat nav. And the reason why I mention this is because I
do get asked quite a lot on YouTube on how you adjust for example the Sat Nav volume.
But the thing is you adjust the volume, using the two volume controls in the car,
when it's talking to you. So for example if I adjust the volume, now I've got music playing
on the on my phone. But if I go across to the sat nav and then enable the Sat Nav voice.
Car: Please proceed to the highlighted route, then you will have reached your destination
I can adjust that volume up and down but notice the music didn't change. Because the Sat Nav was
talking, I did the volume it did the Sat Nav voice but now the Sat Nav has stopped talking,
I can now do the volume of the music.
Now next up is a hidden feature that you might not know about and this is primarily aimed at
Apple iPhone users. So if you have an iPhone like myself,
when you go to connect up via Bluetooth, it'll ask you for access to the phonebook and then that's
it. However if you connect up an Android it will also ask for phonebook access and text messages.
So iPhones don't do this but they're enabled in a slightly different place. Now it's not
actually done on MBUX it's done on the phone itself so if you grab your phone.
Quite simply just go to "Settings" then go to "Bluetooth" and then tap on the "i" on the far
right hand side and then you can enable a thing called "Show Notifications". This
will then allow text messages to come through to your car's multimedia system
and you can even get the multimedia system to read out you if you have MBUX as well!
So next up on the list is breakdown cover! Now did you know that all Mercedes-Benz in the UK
have breakdown cover for 30 years! And that's 30 years across UK and Europe as well! Sow there is a
slight catch...sadly...So that catch is as long as it's serviced by a Mercedes-Benz so a main
Mercedes-Benz dealership each year, you get it renewed for free. Now honestly I don't know why
Mercedes Benz don't promote it this much, but it is there you know you do have that cover.
And as I said the only catch is, as long as it's serviced by Mercedes-Benz each year it's
renewed for free every time you have a service. Which is great I think it's such a huge plus for
any Mercedes-Benz owner! And the best thing about this as well, the number is located just down here
on the driver's door or if you have a fairly new Mercedes you can phone them by literally tapping
this button at the top here and it will phone the Mercedes me breakdown team. How cool is that?
So for my final one today then guys is how you can get your ambient lighting to change
with your sport mode! Kind of...but let me explain so basically when you change
your Dynamic Select switch and you go to like your Comfort mode, Sport mode
that sort of thing it doesn't change the ambient lighting but wouldn't it be cool if it did.
There is kind of a workaround and it involves using the Themes now I have covered themes in
the previous video before so if you want to know more about those click on the banner up above.
But there's something that I didn't cover in that video
and that involves actually changing the Dynamic Select with the ambient lighting as well.
So for example I will just add if you are going to play around with these themes make sure that you
create a theme first and it's going to save your settings as they are now mainly because the themes
do change lots of things in the car. So if you literally just loaded up one of these right now
it would change all your settings and because you haven't saved them you'd lose them all.
So things like your instrument cluster layouts, ambient lighting,
settings like with your sat nav that sort of thing. So make sure you create a theme first.
So I've actually made a couple! So I've got comfort here at the moment which is your kind
of standard displays here with the blue, however I've also made a Sport mode so when I change this
it's going to change the lights to red and yellow and then also
activate my Sport + mode. So this is one workaround so you can't do it directly on here
but you can do this on MBUX and it basically just involves creating and using the themes.
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