Hey Mercedes!
Car: How may I help you?
Activate Ejection Seat...
Car: Okay I will start the ejection seating
Wait what?
Car: 10, 9
Wait what?
8...
No? I'm just joking...
So then guys you may have owned your Mercedes-Benz for a while or maybe you've just picked one up!
Well in this video today I'm going to cover 10 insane tips & tricks on your Mercedes that you
should be using today and some of them are so well hidden like the one you just saw
that I didn't even know exist until a few weeks ago.
So I've been reading the manual cover the cover and trying to find out the most hidden
ones you can possibly find and there are a couple that I only recently just found so
we've got ten to go through today let's start with number one!
So starting at number one we're starting off with a very easy one with the Mercedes me buttons in
the roof so one is called Mercedes me and one is the SOS button basically in a nutshell in
the event of emergency if you need to ring police, ambulance, fire, mountain rescue, lifeguard just
like if you need help at all...literally there's a little switch under here.
If you tap that button it's basically going to ring the
SOS team effectively almost dialling like 999 or 112.
Now as well on top of this there is a "Me" button, on some cars basically that is a roadside
assistance or breakdown cover say you need to ring them for example if you had like a tyre
puncture at the side of the road or for anything else you can just press that and it'll ring them.
Now this also does transmit the car's location as well only of course when
you press these buttons and as long as you've got it enabled on Mercedes me.
But again it can just help kind of pinpoint where you are on a map
just in case you are a bit stuck but yes that's those things so let's move on to number two!
Now up next is backing up your Mercedes so if you didn't know
you can actually back up all the settings on your car and restore them to your new car.
Although that does depend you do need to make sure
it's the same multimedia system so COMAND to COMAND or MBUX to MBUX.
So say you are purchasing a car and it has the same multimedia system just grab a memory stick
and if applicable get a USB-C adapter link for one of these is down below in the description and
yeah quite simply plug it into the relevant USB or USB-C ports.
So I'm just gonna plug mine in that one there
and then on the actual screen itself just press the Home button
go all the way across to 'Settings' or 'System' depending on the model of Mercedes you have.
And then go all the way down to the bottom and you'll see a thing that says 'System Backup'.
Go in here and then from here you can export or import so if I export this...
Do you want to continue? Yes
and then after a few minutes it will have backed up your entire settings,
ambient lighting and all that sort of thing that you would save typically throughout the ownership
of your car and then when you get a new one you can plug it in and restore all of your settings!
Now for this next one I bet you guys didn't know this!
This is a hidden feature that not many people know about
and to be fair it's only going to be used in emergencies and to date I haven't had to use
this but it's there as a precautionary measure so it involves a thing called a 'Soft Reset'.
Now soft reset is basically just like a restart it's almost like going to
Windows or a Mac or something like that and just rebooting it.
Now you can do this just natively in the car by locking it and leaving
it for 10-15 minutes and then it'll reboot all the systems.
Which you'll see when you turn it on each day or reboot but you can do an instant reboot and it's
called a 'Soft Reset' and it's done by a hidden combination of buttons down here in the middle.
So if you hold star and tell both at the same time and just keep holding for a few seconds and the
whole screen will go blank just like that and then literally it just reboots with the Mercedes-Benz
logo there's a very quick way to reboot it just in case of any issues or anything like that.
Now a few of you in the comments section have asked what do I do
if my key battery is out of power if it's dead...
How do you start the car?
Well you can still do it on most Mercedes-Benz.
And the way to tell if you can around in this area here in the middle if you have a
look it's usually in a cup holder or something like that in this car it's on the right hand
cupholder in there there is a picture of a key with like some kind of Wi-Fi symbols.
That's the emergency key starting procedure and just to demonstrate this of course I've got the
key for this car here and just to prove it works...I can unlock and lock the car.
Now what I'm going to do i'm going to take the battery out of this key
to really make this key dead so let me just take the battery out the side...there we go.
As proof I'm going to put the battery up there and just put the cover back on.
Yeah no power in there at all!
Now it does take a little bit longer to start so it's usually just a few extra seconds.
Now I think the chip for this is in the very top of the key just above the lock
button so I'm going to pop that in there facing down we're going to start it so
takes just a little bit longer so I'm going to click the button now and then any second...
(Car Engine Starts)
With no battery! Look at that!
Just going to turn that off.
So yes you can start the car with the key without a battery
but of course it does need to be in that specific area and I said it looks like this symbol here.
So just locate that in the car and then you know how to start it in an emergency!
So guys for my next tip & trick is make use of the limiter!
Not all manufacturers can do this however on Mercedes-Benz cars when you use the limiter it
actually stops you going over that speed even when you go down the hill as well.
So I've got the limiter currently set to 15mph which you can see on the screen.
My foot is actually flat to the floor at the moment however as I go down this hill,
my foot is flat to the floor...
It will not go over.
Some manufacturers do actually let you go over that and it will just beep at you but no
in Mercedes it will keep you under that speed limit on what you've set on the dashboard!
Now for this next one guys is a bit of troubleshooting so you
connected your phone up and the contacts aren't syncing across.
Well in Mercedes-Benz cars number one make sure if you
have like an Android for example that the contacts are on the phone itself.
If they are stored on the SIM card or even your Google account they will
not copy across the car so make sure they're on the on the actual phone.
However if you have an iPhone like me, a common problem I have seen sometimes
so when you connect your phone up for example so I'll just get this connected now.
If this message pops up 'Allow Contacts'
say you pressed 'Don't Allow' or say you had a call come through that exact
time and that message disappeared the contacts will never work with this pairing.
Even if you went into the MBUX and tapped on 'i'
and turned on 'Sync Contacts' here it will not work you have to do it in that initial menu.
So the way to get around this is just 'Forget the device' and just make sure
you do the same on the car so I'm just going to delete this off here very quickly
and then you basically start again from scratch.
But just make sure that that allow button is pressed especially on iPhones
because iPhones I guess can be a little bit funny with getting a contact synced.
But it is an automatic process if you have an iPhone
just make sure you tap here and allow everything 'Allow Contacts'
and then that will then sync and then all of your contacts will go through to the car.
Now for this next tip & trick guys it's something that's been requested quite
a bit in the comments section and that's how you can start your multimedia system silently
as in when you get in the car each day to not have the radio start.
Now as this is a very complex multimedia system you know it houses your
Sat Nav, your Radio, Music off your phone and all sorts. You've got your telephone,
calls, settings various other things as well, it does of course need to be on.
Now you could argue yes I could just have the whole thing switched off like this
but then if you get a phone call you're not going to be able to accept that your phone
will ring but then it won't come through the car because well you switched it off.
So how would you start the system silently without the radio in the morning well that is quite easy!
So if I switch this back on basically all you've got to do is just make sure that it starts on
something that doesn't have any audio, so for example I've got it on radio at the
moment and yes it would normally be playing but I've got it turned down for this video.
If you go on to Media just leave it on one of the USB ports for example so I doubt you probably have
anything plugged in overnight or anything but for example here if I leave it on the one of the USB
ports basically when you turn it on next time it's going to start completely silently with no radio.
So that is one way around and there's kind of also a way of turning the radio off I guess
because sometimes I've had a few comments asking about how you can turn the radio off if you're
on the radio tab it's going to be on so if you leave it on media with SD card or USB as long as
you've got nothing plugged in then it won't play anything so that is one way around on that one!
Now if you have an electric car did you know that with Pre-Entry climate control of course you can
pre-heat or pre-cool the interior but it also actually does some things to the battery as well.
So this is especially important
as the winter months set in you might want to be making use of this more so make sure
you use your pre-entry climate control because it will actually pre-heat the battery as well!
So that'll give you as much range as possible just kind of getting as close to the manufacturer's
kind of WLTP that's printed in the brochures and things like that so make sure you use Pre-Entry
Climate Control because apart from keeping you nice and warm and toasty on the inside
it'll make sure your battery gets the same treatment as well!
So for my next one guys it's how you can copy a profile so basically
if you have set up all of your settings so I've got all mine set up here with
Red Moon light, so blue and red and I've got the progressive dials here
maybe all my eq settings are the way that I want them but there may be some similarities
to the other person who might be driving and you might want to just copy the settings across...it's
very easy to do all you need to do is just go to the profile selector on the top right hand corner.
And on this page here will show you all the profiles that you've made on your car.
So all you do is just go to 'Create Profile'
then give them a nice profile picture without being too rude...
Let's go for the rockstar look and say the person's name was Tom for example.
Just pop that in...this is the screen that you want here so
factory settings will literally start the profile from scratch from factory settings.
But if you do current settings then that will load all the settings from
your current profile and copy it across to the new one i.e on this one Tom.
So tap continue then just follow the steps all the way through and it will create a new
profile with all of the settings on the currently loaded profile.
So for the final one today then guys it's how you can adjust the volume for specific
things on the multimedia system so let me explain.
This is for things like if you think of all the things the multimedia system
can make in terms of sound.
You've got things like your phone, sat nav then you've got radio or music playback...all
these different things have their own individual volume
and you basically adjust the volume on the steering wheel or kind of in the middle here
when it's making a sound and that will adjust that individual thing on its own.
So let me give you an example if I get some music playing for example so let's get that going.
There we go that's playing and then if I go to the
sat nav screen and let's just type in a destination for I don't know the next town across.
Car: Your route is being calculated
There we go that's her talking on top of the music.
So just to show this in action I'm just going to move the volume button up and down.
You can hear the music going up and down like that which is fine
but if I then mute and unmute the so sat nav just get the sat nav to specifically
talk at that moment in time so I'm going to mute it and then unmute it.
I'm then going to change the volume.
Car: Please proceed to the highlighted route
See I'm changing the Sat Nav voice because it's making sound at that time but then it doesn't
change the music so it changes one of these few things that you see on the screen here.
When you adjust the volume it will adjust the volume for the
sound that's making sound at that current moment in time.
So there we have it then guys that is 10 insane tips & tricks for your
Mercedes-Benz however if you want to know more tips and tricks...
Check out this playlist here as this one has over 100 and this video today has just added to that!
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 you see in the videos!
Until next week see you then!