Hey what's up guys and welcome to the channel!
My name is Nick O'Leary and today I've got some Mercedes hacks and
tips & tricks that I bet some of you didn't even know exist!
So for number one and number two we're looking at specifically on
the sat nav and these settings aren't even in the sat nav menu!
So starting at number one is a thing called Audio Fade out.
Now yes as I mentioned this isn't even in the navigation or the Sat
Nav menu so if you go in here, you've usually got 'Where to?', finish,
mute and then some settings over on the right hand side.
It's not even in there either!
It's actually located in the 'System Settings' on the car!
So Audio Fade out basically means that the audio of your radio or the music playing
off your phone will fade out when it gives out an instruction which is quite useful!
Now on some Mercedes this is actually disabled by default so my personal favourite is actually to
enable it so if you go all the way across to 'Settings' on the right hand side,
go in here and then find the menu called 'System' which is usually on the top right hand corner.
And then in here go down to 'Audio'.
In here then go to 'Navigation and traffic announcements' and then
here you'll see a thing called 'Audio Fade out'.
As you can see this one is actually disabled so if you enable this basically when the sat nav
gives an instruction for like a turning the radio or the music playing off your
phone will actually fade down and then come back up when the instruction's finished.
*Car Talking*
Now on number two this is Driving recommendation on a phone call.
So if you just saw it it was actually underneath the Audio
Fade out part but for those of you that just skipped to this tip and trick this
one basically lets the sat nav talk to you while you're on a phone call.
So I don't know, say you're on a motorway or something like that or
dual carriageway driving along, someone rings you,
but then you've got a turning coming up in about three or four miles time.
While you're on the phone call most sat navs actually don't talk
to you just to not interrupt your phone call conversation but then you miss your turning.
So this is kind of user preference if you want the sat nav to talk to you while you're
on a phone call but you can enable this and disable this in the 'System Settings' menu.
So again on this one if you go all the way across to 'Settings' on the far right hand side.
Go into 'System' and then Audio' again in here go to 'Navigation and traffic
announcements' finally and at the bottom here you'll see Driving recommendations during call'.
So if you ever see driving recommendations basically it's the sat nav voice.
So if you enable this while you're on a phone call the sat nav can still talk to you.
Now up next then guys there's a thing called 'Acoustic Lock' now
acoustic lock is especially useful if you kind of just want added peace of
mind that your Mercedes-Benz has actually locked itself.
So basically with it enabled when you press the lock button it will sound a bit like this.
*Car Horn*
It's basically just a little toot from the horn just to give you that audio
element that it has actually locked now that won't happen in every case
say for example you've left a door open slightly.
Look what happens now!
Now you won't get that toot so that toot is basically just a
confirmation that it has successfully locked now of course it does have its
pros and cons you know if you came home late at night and often come
home between two or three in the morning your neighbours might not appreciate it.
So in which case you don't have to have this enabled you could just keep an eye out for the
three flashes from the indicators but acoustic lock adds that extra
audio bit so you can hear it actually successfully lock.
So let's show you how to enable it on the car!
So to do this in the car depending on your preference just press the Home button go
all the way across to either 'Vehicle' or 'Settings' (depending on your model
of Mercedes) then in here find the thing that says 'Vehicle Settings' and then find
'Acoustic lock' then you can toggle this on or off depending on your preference.
Now next on the list then guys I've actually had to come out just before Sunset just to
film this one, this one relates to your lights on the exterior so did you know
you can actually get those lights to stay on for a short while whether you unlock or lock?
So for example here it's a bit dark out...if you unlock it the
lights will stay on just for a little while.
Now this can be anything from 15, 30 seconds, 45 seconds and even 60 seconds,
and this is controlled in the vehicle sub menus 'Vehicle Settings' and then 'Lights'
and keep an eye out for the terminology 'External Light Delay switch off'.
And in here you can choose your preferred preference.
Now for this next one then guys is uploading a profile picture to your Mercedes me account.
Now you don't have to do this, I will add this is mainly if you have multiple Mercedes for a start
and of course multiple drivers who each use the same car in different cars and that sort of thing.
The reason why this might be useful is because then if you have multiple users for example on
your profile selector on your screen, then you can have your pictures all assigned next
to them now the way to do this is to upload your profile picture to your Mercedes me app.
So once it's open just tap the menu button on the top left hand
corner and then you can see your profile picture here and you can add it there.
Now I will also add this is only compatible with kind of Mercedes that have just come out over the
past year or so so it won't be compatible with all of them but yeah that's how you do it all
you do is just go to the Mercedes me app top left hand corner and then you can upload it in here.
And as long as your Mercedes is compatible it will
magically appear there, providing it is linked to your Mercedes me account.
Now in a minute I'll share with you a tip and trick on the parking
sensors but just before that I want to touch on the cup holders so most
Mercedes-Benz do have cup holders in the middle of the car...pretty good!
But some of you may have the no eating or drinking rule like myself especially in maybe a new car,
you want to keep it as new and as clean as possible. So you might not actually use them!
So what you can do is actually in some models of Mercedes is take the divider
or sometimes even the entire cup holder out just kind of giving you
a bit more space to put your phone or other items and things like that.
Now if you have this setup here with a widescreen display and then your kind of cup holders
in the middle here, it's not immediately obvious how you take those cup holders out.
So this is how you do it!
So to remove the divider for the cup holders to maximise that space,
all you need to do is put your fingers on this part here and pull towards the middle
and then for the bottom part move it towards the top and then you can take the divider out
kind of maximising that space just in case you don't want to use them.
Now up next then guys is a thing called 'Handwriting'.
Now I'm sure some of you didn't even know this exists! So this
is found on the 'Where to?' button on the sat nav
and then in here you'll notice at the very bottom here there's a picture of a finger with drawing.
So if you press this this will transform your keyboard into a touchpad!
So then basically you can draw letters and things on the screen here and oh wow....
It actually picked it up! I was going to say that was the worst 'B' I think I've ever drawn!
Obviously this is kind of user preference because you can draw letters and numbers out here for the
sat nav but also remember that you know Mercedes being German the cars are actually designed
left-hand drive when most of us are right-handed so then use your right hand for drawing.
Now I am of course right-handed as well so drawing with my left hand is not the easiest!
I'll try and do a 'H'.
There we go or maybe a '2'?
Oh wow...
It still picks it up so it is quite accurate!
So despite me being right-handed and attempting to draw with my left hand it does pick it up.
Me personally I prefer the keyboard but there is this option down here if you want to do this and
one huge benefit to this is if you are driving you want to keep your eyes on the road you can
draw on the touchpad here without taking your eyes off the road directly in front of you!
Now for this next one some of you may have experienced this before in your
life of owning Mercedes and that is where the window kind of loses its 'One Touch' function.
So if you're not sure what that is if I do this on the back window you'll
notice here when I push this down it will kind of go down with one touch.
And then one touch will bring it all the way back up.
Now I purposely done this on this window here just so you can see but if I push down,
it will go down with one touch but if I bring it
back up it immediately stops and it's kind of lost its 'One Touch' function.
The reason why that can happen is usually if something's restricted it from closing fully
or opening fully. Say someone's hand was there or you know just got caught on something or even
if I don't know you were doing the window up and hit a large bump just directly at the same time.
It could just lose its synchronisation, so the way to fix this basically is just
hold the window switch all the way up until it goes all the way up.
Sometimes it might come down again just like this but then immediately hold it back up keep holding
and it will reset that kind of 'One Touch' kind of procedure so then if I push that all the way down.
And then bring it all the way back up...that whole
thing will have reset and then it'll work just the way it's intended!
Now for this next one guys, this is the 'Search' function now this
search function is such a powerful tool that can save you so much time.
It's literally just here at the top and it lets you search everything!
So say for example you go in here and you wanted to go to a postcode,
literally you don't have to go to Navi you can literally just type it in here and it will come
up and kind of predict what you're typing in and it's found the postcode for literally right here.
Now you don't have to use it for Sat Nav you could use it for information on your car itself,
so I don't know say you wanted to look at AdBlue which you'll find usually on diesels.
There we go notes on refilling AdBlue go in here and then it will literally load up
a digital version of the owner's manual so you can read all about it just like that.
So yes this Search tool literally lets you search everything you can possibly think of.
You can even bring up radio stations as well just literally type it in your preferred thing
of what you're looking for and it will show you all the results on the left hand side!
So for this next one then guys this one relates to your parking sensors.
So by default in most Mercedes-Benz as you approach an object they basically go:
Yellow, yellow, orange, orange, red, red and then hit or crunch!
Which you don't want to do.
Now what it does on the red...that's where it beeps.
Now some people actually prefer it to beep further back and this
is how you can change it on the screen.
So let me show you what it looks like with this option off, so as you get
near an object so I've got some blue cones here as you get nearer it'll come up on the
screen but there'll be no sound so it'll go yellow than orange and then red just there.
Now that's fine if you're used to that but you can actually get it so they beep a lot
further back so let me reverse that and then we'll enable the hidden thing on the screen.
So this is located if you go all the way across two 'Settings' on
the far right hand side then go to the 'Assistance' menu and then in
'Camera & Parking' there's an option there called 'Warn early all-round'.
Personally I think this should be on by default if you tap this on now this
time it's going to beep a lot further back than it did before so here we go!
Just like that!
So guys with those 10 Mercedes hacks and tips & tricks what else is there?
Well if you loved today's ones check out this playlist right here because this
one has even more tips & tricks and hacks to get the most from your Mercedes-Benz.
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Guys thank you so much! Until next week! See you then!