Hey what's up guys and welcome to the channel my name is Nick O'Leary and today we're having
a look at something that we use every day and that is your parking sensors!
Now you may be wondering I know how my parking sensors work you know they
beep when they get near objects but did you know the distances that the yellow,
orange and red lines show on the screen? And there is a setting that I recommend
almost every Mercedes-Benz owner change to take advantage of I'll show you that in a minute...
So focusing on most new Mercedes models after approximately 2018,
most now show the parking sensors up on the multimedia screen.
So the second you get near any objects it will fade out any audio
and show you the parking sensors so you can see how close you are to objects.
Now these distances.
So the yellow starts at about a meter to 0.6 m
The orange is 0.6 m to 0.3 m
And then the red of course is very very close this is 0.3 m or less
And that's just about close enough on the red.
How much is this car?
£50,000?? Okay!
Now for those of you watching and listening really really closely did you notice when it beeped?
It beeped literally last second on the red and on the red it's about actually
the width of your steering wheel so for kind of point of reference when you're sat in here
about the width of the steering wheel is how far away it is when it's on the red.
However these are different to the rear so have a listen to the rear.
Notice how they beep a lot further back now have a listen to the front again.
Now these two variances can be changed if you wish and is my personal
recommendation on the setting that you should change with your parking sensors mainly because
with most other manufacturers you'll find the parking sensors are the same for front and back
But they are slightly different on Mercedes so to change this all
you do is head over to your settings menu on MBUX.
So to change this so they match with the rear sensors all you do is swipe
all the way across to the right hand side to "Settings" on your MBUX multimedia scree,
go in here and find the menu called "Assistance".
Click on this one and then find the menu called "Camera & Parking"
and in here will be an option called "Warn early all around".
This is my number one suggestion for maximizing and making use of the parking
sensors mainly because it's going to mimic the same kind of variables as what the sensors do
in the rear so instead of beeping last second which was about the width of the steering wheel,
it will beep a lot further back giving you a bit more indication as to what's actually going on.
And while you're in this menu as well you can also adjust the volume of the parking sensors
so if you want to make them a little bit quieter click on this one and you can swipe left or right.
And make them louder or quieter.
You can also adjust the pitch as well so click on this you can then swipe left and right.
You can almost play a tune on that one!
But yeah you can of course change the parking sensor volume pitch
and of course that "Warn early all round" to maximise and make use of all the parking sensors.
Now on some selected models of Mercedes-Benz there are a couple of options underneath these
so of course "Warn early all round", Volume & Pitch are the most common ones
but then on some models you've got settings for adjusting audio fade out during warning tones.
So this is if you have your radio or music playback off your phone for example,
this will fade that music down so you can hear your sensors
just a little bit more clearly which I think everyone should have on anyway.
Underneath this is Auto reversing camera, quite simply does what it says on the tin when you pop
it into reverse the camera comes on but underneath is a thing called "Manoeuvring Assistance".
Manoeuvring Assistance is actually a slightly new thing found on selected Mercedes-Benz models,
basically it's a red warning triangle very similar to Active Brake Assist
but it's for the parking sensors but it's for slow speeds.
So if you think Active Brake Assist is of course for on the move the red warning triangle you see
on your dashboard, Manoeuvring Assist is for when you're parking basically if there's any objects
or things near the car when you're parking, this can autonomously apply the brakes if
it thinks you're going to have a severe impact with them or at least it will reduce the speed
anyway so it's very very similar to Active Brake Assist but it's just for slower speeds.
And there we have it guys that concludes
this week's video on maximising your parking sensors in your Mercedes-Benz!
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as they provided all these awesome cars that you see in the video today.
Until next week we'll see you then!