Are you going to lock someone or something in your car and need to turn your alarm off?
Or maybe you're about to travel on one of these and need to switch the alarm off for a ferry?
Hey guys & welcome to my channel my name is Nick O'Leary and today we're looking at just that!
How to switch off your Interior Motion Sensor and a thing called Tow-Away Protection
also known as the exterior alarm.
And if you wait to the very end there's a little kind of shortcut almost like
a hidden tip & trick on how to access these functions faster!
So first up why?
Why would you need to turn your alarm off?
Well quite simply your Mercedes-Benz has two alarms one for the interior to
detect movement on the inside and to alert in the event of a theft.
However as it is quite sensitive to movement you'll probably want
to deactivate this if you leave a pet in the car
or if you were to lock anyone in the car while I don't know for example you went to the shops.
Of course the usual safety points make sure you don't leave a dog in the car during hot days,
as the interior of a car can become extremely hot!
And the second is the exterior for example if someone is about to tow the car away
or if you're about to travel on a ferry, the boats movement could set the alarm off.
Or if you are transporting the car it may be best to turn off
both to prevent any unnecessary triggers.
Now as always guys this does vary from model to model so I'll try to cover all the variations
in this video today however if you do get stuck just get in touch with your local Mercedes-Benz
retailer who will be able to give you personalised instructions on how to do it on your own car.
So then guys to determine how to do this on your car have a look at your
dashboard but more specifically have a look next to your centre mirror up here.
Now in most modern cars there is an
SOS button and either side of that you'll find the buttons to turn the alarm off.
Now don't worry if you're looking at your car and you don't see those buttons there, some cars you
can turn the alarm off using the screen in the middle which I'll show you how to do in a minute.
But just to show you how to do it in this one...on the left hand side there's a picture
of a car with kind of some wavy lines in the middle, this is the Interior Motion Sensor
of course if you're going to lock anyone in the car or any pets or that sort of thing.
On the right hand side is Tow-Away Protection, that's for the exterior alarm just in case the
car is nudged or hit or say you went onto a boat or something like that and the kind of boat was
moving with the waves, that is the one you want to turn off for the exterior.
So to do these quite simply as you're about to get out and when you open your
door and your course or your ignitions off and everything just tap the button
as you leave and the red light will flash a few times to say the alarm is now off.
Of course the left one for the Interior Motion Sensor
and then the right one for the Tow-Away Protection which is the exterior alarm.
Now don't worry if your Mercedes-Benz doesn't have those buttons either side of the SOS button
you'll actually be turning off using the screen in the middle of the car.
So using the wheel if you press the 'Home' button and scroll across to a section that says
'Vehicle' go into here and find a thing that says 'Vehicle Settings' and then in here
you'll find the relevant buttons 'Tow-Away Protection' & 'Interior Motion Sensor'.
Again for this example I've got them unticked, ticked means they are on and
when they are unticked it means it's off but just remember by the time that you've
unlocked the car and started again they'll default back to on anyway.
And last but not least is for anyone who has
MBUX with that famous 'Hey Mercedes!' voice assistant and there she is right on cue.
I'm going to press the back button just to turn her off at the moment
but most importantly the alarms for this car are in a similar place but they're actually
found in the 'Settings' menu which is on the far right hand side so if we go into this.
You'll immediately be presented with a thing called the 'Quick Access' menu.
Now in here you can clearly see on the bottom left that is the
'Interior Motion Sensor' so you can toggle this on and off just like this
and then the right hand side there you can see the car with the hook that's the Tow-Away Protection.
So a little bit easier than the other one but I do have a little tip & trick for
owners of MBUX and COMAND.
Now one would argue that the first method the one of the buttons in the roof
is actually the easiest out of all them because you just press the button as you leave.
But Mercedes have thought of that and they allow you to actually assign
these two buttons to a thing called the 'Favourites Menu'.
Now I have made a dedicated video on the 'Favourites Menu'
so if you want to know more about that that is the star on the steering wheel
and the star located just down here so I'll link that up above if you want to know more about that.
But you can actually assign the Interior Motion Sensor and the Tow-Away Protection
kind of toggles on and off to that Favourites Menu.
So to access this all you do is press the star and you'll see in this menu
Tow-Away Protection and Interior Motion Sensor among a few other things.
Now I know most people use this Favourites menu for the sat nav
destinations like your home or work or places you might visit.
But you can put these two toggles in here for the Tow-Away Protection & Interior Motion Sensor.
So just to show you how easy it is say you're driving along,
come to a stop and you're parked up and you want to turn the alarm off tap the star and then you
can turn off the Interior Motion Sensor just like that in literally less than five seconds.
So that is a very very quick workaround for models of COMAND & MBUX.
And just to cover all basis just in case you have deleted all the shortcuts in your favourites menu,
don't worry you can actually reset it back to default so on the very very top right hand
corner go to your profile selector where it says your name or the word 'Guest' and then go to the
relevant profile that you want to modify so if you see here this says 'Guest' at the moment.
If i go to the menu button with the kind of dots across, you can actually reset the favourites
to factory settings then you can get those buttons back just in case you deleted them.
And there we go guys that concludes this week's video on how to turn off
the alarms for your Mercedes-Benz for the interior and of course the exterior as well.
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But as always huge shout out to Sandown Mercedes-Benz as they help provide access to
all these awesome cars you see in the video so it would be very tricky to do it without them!
But guys thank you so much for watching until next week Friday 4pm...see you then!