Hey what's up guys and welcome to my channel!
My name is Nick O'Leary and today I'm doing something
slightly different...for those of you who are regular viewers to my channel you'll
know that every now and again I post some tips and tricks videos and they certainly do well.
Because with all of my tips and tricks videos combined
they total about just over a million and a half views which is insane so thank you so much!
Of course couldn't have done it without you
so what I'm going to do today is add to that but with a twist...
And that twist is almost like a two-part special so Adam from AB Auto and I have been chatting
behind the scenes and as he's recently just purchased a very nice Mercedes-AMG CLA45 S,
we're going to offer like a kind of two-part video.
So in my video I'm going to run through the Mercedes-AMG
10 tips and things you need to know and then Adam's going to have a look
at some of those tips and see which ones apply to his specific car.
Which I won't lie I'm slightly jealous of because it looks amazing!
So let's start off with number one!
So then guys starting at number one, did you know that even today in 2021 that Mercedes-AMG
still deploy this tactic and it is the One Man, One Engine philosophy.
And if you've never heard of that before basically on the highest performing
Mercedes-AMG engines so vehicles like the 45's, 63's and 65's,
when they're being assembled and built in factory it's only being done by one person.
And when they finished they put a plaque on top of the engine bay to signify their work.
There is one just over here let's take a look!
So this car right here is a Mercedes-AMG vehicle and this one is a Mercedes-AMG GT 4-door coupe
and it's actually the fastest production car that Mercedes-Benz make.
But it's not just on these you can find these AMG plaques on A45's,
CLA-45's, C63,s, G63's that sort of thing.
But this is what it looks like, so if I open it up
you can see that plaque literally right here in this massive great slab of an engine.
I apologise in advance I'm probably going to ruin this person's name by the pronunciation
because pronunciations are not my strong suit but handcrafted by 'Reynard Strauss' 'Straouss?'
I've probably ruined your name...I'm very very sorry!
But having said that the plaque is still really really cool even in 2021 today!
So yes as Mercedes-AMG engines are hand built, they do have a very strict running in period
and if you purchase from a main Mercedes-Benz dealership or showroom they will of course explain
this to you in detail what you can and can't do (just for the first thousand miles anyway).
It is all detailed in the manual as well but you can also find it on a sticker up here on the top
right hand corner of the windscreen and basically it states 'Notes on breaking in a new vehicle'.
So for the first 1k miles, it states no full load operation no kick down so if you don't know what
the kick down is that's the accelerator pedal where you push it all the way down you've got
that kind of 'clicky bit' at the bottom. So it's advised not to go to that for the first 1k miles.
Also not above 85 mph and then also not above 4,500rpm over on the right hand side here,
so it's only for the first 1k miles or so and then it says to increase the load slowly
after that and then of course you can get on to race starts which are launch control!
So once you've completed your running in period
what you'll then be able to do is a launch control or what Mercedes-Benz call a 'Race Start'.
Basically launching the car from 0 - 6-0mph in its fastest possible time.
Now sadly at the time of producing this video I don't have my hands on one to actually
show you all on YouTube however I will do this probably next year so make sure you
hit that 'Subscribe' button down below and that way you'll be notified when I do upload
and produce a video on that particular topic. But anyway on to the next one!
So while we're on the topic of high performance and Mercedes-AMG engines,
did you know that if you've purchased a Mercedes-AMG
brand new in the UK, you may get an invite for a track day at Mercedes-Benz world.
Yes you can literally take one of these Mercedes cars round a track and put it through its paces.
Now I have done this myself and I can't recommend it enough, it is an amazing day out ! They've got
a skid pan, there there's a high performance circuit, high performance straights and there's
even an SUV off-roading section as well. But yes you can take some of these high performance
Mercedes-AMG's around the track and have a fun day out and even check out their museum as well!
Now on some selected AMG's you can view some engine data so if you're a true
AMG enthusiast and you love your high performing cars, this is definitely the menu for you!
Now it can vary from model to model sometimes it's on the left screen but
then sometimes it's on the right screen so in all honestly you just have to have
a look just because it can vary from year to year model to model, that sort of thing.
So if it is on the left screen press your home button and then go to vehicle and then
you may see some AMG engine data in here and that's how you can view it on that screen.
Now this particular car is on the right hand side so
if I press the home button swipe this across to the left you'll see 'AMG Performance'.
Now this is a unique menu to AMG's you won't find this on any other Mercedes-Benz.
So if I go in here you can view things like your 'Boost' your engine temperature,
gearbox temperature and handily enough actually you see the blue where it says 16 and 20 degrees
that's the kind of ambient temperature in here at the moment.
When the engine has warmed up successfully so obviously when you get to operating temperature
these actually turn white and you can only do a launch control or a 'Race Start' when these
two figures are white. So that's one good thing to note if you do a lot of kind of racing and
that sort of thing on a track this is definitely something that's really really important to note.
Now swiping the touchpad down will go through different things so you can view things like
what mode you're in now this particular car has these circular buttons on the steering
wheel that I can spin around and it will control the 'Comfort', 'Sport',
'Sport+' & even 'Race' modes as well and if you're really creative you can even make your own mode.
Now there is one called 'Slippery' I'll cover that in a minute on the next one
but continuing on just swiping down you can see some other things like
G-Force readings? So yes you can literally see how many G's you're pulling almost. Even with
acceleration, braking turning around corners so this is all the kind of telemetry data
you'd even see on like Formula One cars so it's quite cool it's all built into the car.
Now on some selected AMG's you'll also find lap times, so again it's kind of hit
a miss on what side it's going to be on most commonly on some newer ones you'll find it on
AMG track pace which is on the left hand side. Now sadly it's not available on all models just due to
chip shortage and things like that so I won't go into too much detail on that but
hey if you do have it that's pretty cool but even if you don't have it you've got some of the
functions on there which is quite cool to see when you're
driving around an AMG as you go to accelerate you'll see it'll go boost that's your turbo.
And it'll just kind of increase or decrease depending on how heavy your right foot is really!
Now one very unique thing with Mercedes-AMG's is I have covered many times before on the
kind of walkthrough guides of COMAND or MBUX and customising your instrument cluster
these are all videos I've done before however AMG's have a trick up their sleeve!
So before I've mentioned you can customise your kind of instrument cluster and change
the design...in this you have a special one which is reserved for AMG's only so let's have a look!
All you do is press the 'Home' button swipe all the way across
to 'Designs' click in here and then you've got the usual 'Classic' so
it's kind of traditional dials with the mph on the left and revs on the right.
Then you have 'Sport' which is very similar but it has dark yellow and green and as you rev the
car you'll see these lights here will kind of trail up and down with the with the red.
And then of course everyone's eye has just been drawn to the words
'Supersport' now this again as I mentioned is unique to AMG's
and to be honest if you have an AMG, definitely one you want to go for because it looks amazing.
You've got your central dial with your speed in the middle there and of course as i mentioned
before in previous videos you can customise your instrument cluster, so if I swipe this across
this way and let's put those AMG stats over there on the left and then hey on the right let's change
this to G-Force readings so you've got every bit of information here that you'd fancy.
And say if you get lost as well you can even put your Sat Nav over here as well so
so much customisation across the board...I think I'm going
to leave it on that one because that one definitely looks the best in my book!
So of course it's not all about 0-60's & lap times and track times and that sort of thing,
sometimes you need to drive the car sensibly well should I say most of the time anyway!
So in most cars you'll find the 'Dynamic Select' switch
over here on the top left somewhere. Now in this car it's kind of a special one not a
very common car this one just because of its price and performance and that sort of thing.
It's actually on the top right and you can do it on the steering wheel as well
so when you spin this round you've got these different modes or if I toggle this up and down
same thing you've got 'Comfort', 'Sport', 'Sport+' & even 'Race'.
Comfort being the the normal one, sport faster,
sport plus fastest and then race is all out with a bit of traction control off
and you can kind of drift it around tracks and all sorts so yes proper proper powerhouse this car!
Now this does extend to other AMG's as well so they also do
feature sometimes a 'Slippery' mode just like this here!
Now slippery does what it says on tin there with the picture, it is for slippery conditions
so it could be torrential rain to snow or ice or something like that.
Purely it does depend on the car that you have so if you have 4MATIC it will make
use of the four-wheel drive system a bit more but certainly for like C63's that are rear-wheel drive
it will basically reduce that power a lot because obviously there is a lot of power from these
engines! There can be four, five, six hundred horsepower some of them so
anything that welcomes a bit more traction especially seeing as I live in the UK,
it does rain quite a lot so yeah! Very very welcoming! Now next up is 'Emotion Start'!
Now I guess there's no way of putting this lightly but this is definitely a
way of showing off and definitely a German thing!
So of course when you turn on Mercedes-AMG engines no matter what AMG it is whether it's a 2.0L,
3.0L, 4.0L V8 or even on some of them a 6.0L V12!
They all do sound really really good when you turn it on but emotion starts basically turns it on
with a little bit more noise because well why not really? Maybe you just want to show off!
So to do this basically you just hold one of the paddles so you've got your down
paddle here on the left to go down a gear and then this one over here to go up a gear.
You basically just hold one of them as you turn it on
and yeah basically turns the car on with the valves open and revs it slightly more
so you get a bit of poppling and crackling from the back...Yeah!
Very German Mercedes-AMG thing to do there! That's uh no complaints on that one! Because
yeah if you can turn your car on makes a little bit more noise I'm all for that!
So this is what it sounds like without an 'Emotion Start'.
And this is what it sounds like with an 'Emotion Start'.
Now of course if you didn't know how it works with Mercedes-Benz.
Daimler who own Mercedes-Benz also owned some sub-brands as well.
So you've got Daimler at the top Mercedes-Benz, then there are Smart,
then there's EQ and then there's Mercedes-AMG
so not a separate company they're just kind of sub brands within the same company.
But the reason why I mention this is because there is another sub brand
not kind of owned by Daimler as far as I'm aware but it's called BRABUS. So BRABUS are actually
backed by Mercedes so if you wanted to increase the horsepower of your Mercedes-AMG even more!
You can do that and say you want to put a body kit on it you can do that as well and the best
thing about this it is backed by Mercedes-Benz! Now my knowledge on BRABUS isn't too high however
there are a few models that you can customise and upgrade to give you even more power!
So you can even do that for standard A180 engines to A45S's, C63's, G63's. I remember one time there
was a G63 that was 585hp, which is crazy as is but BRABUS came along and tuned it to 800hp.
I mean that is just crazy but hey if you wanted to have even more power than what
a Mercedes-AMG engine already produces then that is a route you could go down.
There's a link in the description down below on BRABUS's website
so if you did want more and you don't have to go all out with a body kit.
You could just have the engine you could just have a spoiler they can do it all basically!
So for my final one today guys is did you know that most AMG's
can take advantage of a higher octane fuel?
Yes if you check your fuel filler cap you'll see on most AMG's the wording 'RON 95' and 'RON 98'.
If you see 'RON 98' then your car can actually accept a higher octane fuel
resulting in increased performance.
Of course it costs more than normal fuel but it is entirely up to you to see if it's worth it.
My recommendation if you're wanting every inch of performance out of your car then I'd go for
a 'RON 98' or higher but of course it will quite happily 'RON 95' which is your normal unleaded.
And there we go guys that concludes this week's
video on 10 Mercedes-AMG tips and things you need to know!
Let me know what you guys think in the comments section down below hit that
like and of course that subscribe button if you want to see more future content just like this!
Again as always huge shout out to Sandown Mercedes-Benz for allowing access to all the
cars you see in the videos as it would be very tricky to do it without them!
So guys if you wanted to see the reactions to some of these tips and the Mercedes-AMG
things you didn't know! Go check out AB Auto's channel where Adam himself will be
going through the things I've run through today on his own car!
So go check it out and see what he has to say about all the things we've run through today!
Until next week we'll see you then!