Hi guys and welcome to the channel my name is Nick O'Leary.
Now it's that time of year again where I think we should cover a topic that everyone loves...it's
Tips & Tricks on your Mercedes!
Right then guys so Tip & Trick number one for today, this is sending an address from
Mercedes me to the car, but not the way that I've covered previously.
So before if you open up the Mercedes me app and then go to the location on the bottom, I think
most of you know you can send the address from this little box here type in where you want to go
and then ping it to the car. Now I've got a different way you can send it, so say for example
you don't use the Mercedes me kind of maps inside here, let's say that you used Apple Maps instead
or maybe Google Maps. If you go to that relevant app I've got my apple maps open here, so let's
scroll down and find I don't know the nearest city Southampton and let's go to their cinema here.
So if I tap on that, normally you can press directions which will then give you directions on
apple maps, but you can share that location with Mercedes me which will then send it to the car!
So if you scroll down tap, on share and then just swipe these apps across there's a Mercedes me icon
here. Tap on that one and that will load up like a sub app of Mercedes me and then you tap on the
car you want to send it to so in this case the EQC 400 on the showroom plinth, tap send and
that will send it straight to the car and there it is on the screen! Literally as simple as that!
Right guys so my next tip and trick is themes on MBUX, now I haven't actually covered this in any
of my previous videos. I have however covered profiles so profiles and themes and designs of
the screen are slightly different so i'm sure a few of you may know obviously with MBUX you can
customise these screen layouts so much. And so much so you can have your own layouts for
each different profile each different user which is pretty cool! However if it's just you driving
you don't need to have different profiles to save different kind of styles of screens and things.
So for example on the MBUX screen here this is the home screen so I use the touchpad in the middle,
now I have covered virtually everything on here but if you swipe down which I haven't ever shown
before, this goes to a thing called themes. Now these themes save virtually all of your settings
and layouts including DYNAMIC SELECT functions as well now I've just spent the past few minutes
creating a couple. So for example if this was my car, I'd probably have a normal theme which has
Comfort and kind of just like normal displays so you've got the kind of turquoise look here
big speed, digital speed in the middle if you then change this to the next theme obviously sitting in
an AMG quite fitting. If i go to Sport+ theme this is going to create a completely different theme.
So if I have the ignition on for example this is going to have the kind of engine output,
engine torque on this screen here it's changed the mode to Sport+ as well
and then I've also got kind of a different screen on the right hand side here as well with digital
speed on the left horsepower, newton meters in the middle and then revs on the right hand side.
So that's one theme let's go back to the home screen and go down again
to my other theme and this is road trip here which i've made this is going to load
up the sat nav here and then also change this screen layout over here on the right
so we've got Bluetooth music playing for the music on the road, a map in the middle and
a map there but obviously you can kind of swap it around and choose what you'd like.
And I've also got the horsepower & newton meters over there so
you create your own themes on each screen so different designs of the screens save them on here
this is kind of like very very similar profiles but of course the themes are for just one user.
Next up guys is the parking light function on Mercedes-Benz now
I'm sure many people don't really use this function
but I'm sure as you know of course most Mercedes-Benz have automatic headlights.
So this refers to the dipped beams they come on automatically if you drive through a tunnel or
it's night time or it starts raining they just work and you kind of leave it in the
12 o'clock position and you never need to touch it. If you spin this round to the left so you go
anti-clockwise you can adjust the parking light functions so basically what this will do
if i spin this round you'll notice that it will illuminate one side of the car.
So you can switch between the two here now of course we do drive on the left hand side in
the UK and in most instances should be parking on the left-hand side because obviously if you
parked on the right and then turned your car on at night you'll blind everyone coming towards you.
So ideally parking on the left-hand side what you'll do is leave a light on this side
to let people know here's the edge of your car so it's especially useful at night time
just to illuminate to other people letting you know that you're parked.
Now for my next Tip & Trick is a very very simple one so some
of you may already actually do this anyway but this is the air
conditioning and AUTO button found on Mercedes-Benz climate control systems.
So I've seen countless times many people start adjusting where the air comes out
whether it be from the front down to the vents here and down to your feet
and then adjusting the fan speed and then adjusting the temperature as well
but that AUTO button which also incorporates A/C (air conditioning) actually does all that for you!
So when you have AUTO on if you have it on warm it's going to come out primarily down at the
bottom because warm air rises. Now if you have it on cold that's going to come out of these vents
here like it is just at the moment. But what's also really good as well is the A/C button. Now
we always kind of associate Air Conditioning with cold but actually it removes moisture from the air
so in the winter for example if it's been raining and you've got a wet coat and then for example
you get into a car and if your air conditioning is off, you'll notice all that water starts to
come off and then go on to the windscreen so not ideal and I've seen people so many times
just get a cloth and start wiping away at that windscreen or the windows.
If you have your A/C on, it does all that for you so pretty neat!
Next up guys is a Tip & Trick that hopefully you'll never need to use
however if you've left the car for a long period of time then potentially that battery
the 12V battery may have been depleted meaning that when you unlock it it won't do anything.
So what you'll need to do is actually gain access to the car manually
and get some power to that battery either through charging or you can do a jump start.
Now if you're not comfortable doing this don't worry the Mercedes-Benz breakdown team or also
known as Roadside Assistance will come out in this scenario but in case you want to do it yourself,
on your key you'll find there's a button on the new style the bottom and when you
press it you can pull out what's called or what's also known as the blade key.
So with that blade key what you'll need to do is go to the driver's side and there's
a little hole just underneath here to take off this piece next to the handle. So what
you have to do is just carefully pop that in there and give it a bit of a wiggle
and then what you do is kind of just prise up from the bottom, again they are quite tough.
Eventually it will come off just like that so that's that piece there that's just come off,
so pop him at the top and then what you can do of course
this is the bit where you just unlock it like a normal key
and you pop this in and then turn it all the way around and that has now unlocked it.
Now of course this car at the moment is charged so if I did open the store it would set the alarm
off. So at this precise moment of time I won't do that because I'm sure some people might get angry!
Next up on the list guys is a thing called the Rest Mode or Rest Feature
now this isn't on all models of Mercedes-Benz but basically what it does say in the winter it's I
don't know -5°C outside for example so it's pretty cold. And you would normally have your heating on
so it's nice and warm in here, it's drawing heat from the engine keeps it nice and warm.
Now when you go to the shops of course when you switch the engine off all the climate
control goes off and then eventually the cabin in here cools back down again because it's so
cold outside. So what you can do with this rest mode is press the Rest button it does
vary from model to model and not all models do have it but what it will then do is draw heat
from the engine bay based on your previous climate control settings so if i'd set this
to 25°C it's going to try and keep this in here 25°C ready for when you finish shopping.
For my next tipTip & Trick guys is the driver's door
only unlock so this is particularly useful if you're concerned about security or
anything and you don't want anyone else getting in the car until you say so.
So normally with a car when you unlock it,
it'll unlock all doors so driver's door, passenger doors everything's all unlocked.
Now in the instance where you only want the driver's door unlocked you can change this on the
key. Now if you have multiple keys you have to do this per key, but let's do this to this key now.
So using the unlock and lock button you just press and hold both together at the same time
and keep holding for quite a while and pay close attention to the LED...it's just flashed twice
which means it's been done so now when you go to unlock the car it will only do the driver's door.
Now for my next Tip & Trick guys is the voice assistant found
in most Mercedes-Benz or should I rephrase that and say voice assistants!
So I'm sure most of you know with cars that have MBUX there is of course the Hey Mercedes!
voice assistant and there she is there! I'm just going to press the cancel button for a second.
Now if you have COMAND there is the voice button on the steering wheel so you can activate it by
pressing that up. But did you know? That if you hold that button up either on COMAND or MBUX, that
will actually activate the voice assistant on your phone! So for me for example I have an iPhone,
if I hold this button up it's going to activate Siri. So for example if you're going to turn on
Spotify you can't do that normally but if you hold this button up you can give Siri a
command and change a track on Spotify so just adds a little functionality here and there.
Now for my next Tip & Trick guys is how you can clean your reversing camera.
Now in most Mercedes-Benz it does pop in and out automatically but there could be some scenarios
where there could be a bit of residue left on that lens and you notice it when you go to reverse.
Now in this particular car for example it's actually located in the Mercedes-Benz badge
and the problem being when you open it it just kind of swings up because this all
being electric it just goes up on its own. And then if you close it you can kind of
stop it halfway but then if you try and open that badge it's just going to open up again.
So there is a button on your multimedia system to actually open up that badge
so if i close that back up basically what you'll need to do is press Home
on your multimedia system go to "Settings" which is on the far right then go to "Assistance" and
then in here there's a menu called "Camera & Parking" and then tap on "Open camera cover".
This will then open the Mercedes-Benz badge and you can get a lint-free cloth
and just quickly wipe that lens over making it nice and clean again.
Now guys for my final Tip & Trick is the HANDSFREE ACCESS function found on selected Mercedes-Benz.
As I said this isn't on every single model but it's quite useful if you have like a
large item in your hands or something or like a box and you need to put something in the boot.
So the way this works, in line with the Mercedes-Benz badge,
just literally pop your foot underneath here and it'll open just like that and you can
also do the same for closing on selected cars as well just do the same thing
and it'll close just like that just remember to have your key in your pocket.
And there we go guys that concludes this week's video on Tips & Tricks on your Mercedes-Benz!
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