Hey guys & welcome to my channel my name is Nick O'Leary and
today after popular request from you guys
in the comments section on YouTube we're exploring your climate control on your Mercedes-Benz!
Now as always guys this does vary from model to model so if you're not entirely sure
get in touch with your local Mercedes-Benz and they can
give you personalised and tailored advice on your own specific car.
However in this video we're going through a walkthrough guide of all the buttons
and if you wait to the very end I'm going to do my famous Tips & tricks but specifically
on climate control on your Mercedes.
So let's have a look at what all the buttons do!
So then guys an overview of all the buttons now as I said your climate control will either look
something like this one just here so you can see it's just this bank of switches across.
Now if you have another model it could look a bit like this one
or you could have digital kind of dials along the bottom with kind of a display
in the dial or even if you have like one of the newest Mercedes that come out this year
then it could be all digital on the screen at the very very bottom.
Now most of the buttons are going to be very very similar so some of the
terminology I use in this video will be exactly the same just have a look
because a button might be in a slightly different place to what i'm showing here.
So in this particular car these two buttons here
are your temperature control for the driver and passenger.
Quite simply just adjust the right hand side to do the driver's side
and then the left hand one for the passenger side.
Now in some cars Mercedes-Benz have got a nice little neat trick that when
you adjust that temperature you'll make the ambient lighting go red to indicate
you're making it warmer on this side and then of course blue for cold. Now
I have got them set to blue at the moment, so you won't see that but
a nice little neat trick there to show you what's happening when you adjust your temperature.
Now the next one across here on the left hand side is a "MENU" button now I'm going to leave
that just to the very end so I'm going to skip that button just for now and you'll see why later.
So the one after this is the fan speed so this is how you adjust your fan speed up or down
and you'll notice that as you use these buttons
because there's no display on here including the temperature you'll see that it'll adjust
that temperature just on here on the screen like this including the fan speed just like this here.
So you can increase that intensity or lower that intensity just like that.
The button after this is "AUTO" so that is an automatic fan speed.
You can of course control that fan speed manually if you want to but the car can do
it automatically as well so say it's really cold outside I don't know like -5 outside or something
and you want it nice and warm in here 25 degrees.
So if you make that change the car if it's on AUTO fan speed
is going to put that fan speed up fairly high to get it to the temperature you've asked it
and then when it gets to that temperature it'll kind of settle off
but if you don't want the fan blaring away and blowing in your face or anything then you
can just adjust that on there and turn off the AUTO and then adjust that fan speed manually.
Or even turn it off so that's what that does.
The next one across is a MAX button for the front windscreen so this is a front de-misiting
button for the windscreen so very very useful if it's icy outside or it's just a bit
misty from kind of morning dew or something like that
but if you tap that one that'll put everything to the front just like this.
And tap it again to turn it off so that is Max Demisting for the front.
The next one across is the only odd one out on this bank of switches and that
is your hazard switch so of course that's your hazards just tap that on to turn it on
and tap it again to turn it off.
The button after that is the rear window demister so if you tap that one on
you'll get a little orange light there to indicate it's on so that will demist the rear window just
in case it's a little bit misty or even icy and that sort of thing so that's that one.
After this we have a recirculation button so
this is if you want to stop any outside air coming into the car.
So that could be one or two things maybe you're driving behind a smelly car or something or
driving past some smoke from a bonfire or maybe you're driving past some sewage works or something
like that and you don't want the exterior to come in. Can be quite useful as well in the summer
say it's really hot outside you don't want to draw any warm air in you just want to keep the cool
air in here you can tap that and it will shut off all the vents to stop any exterior air coming in.
Speaking of the summer air conditioning....Now
air conditioning doesn't just have to be used in the summer to cool the interior of a car down.
Believe it or not it can be used in the winter as well
so air conditioning doesn't just cool an interior of a car it also boosts the heating as well and
it also does a third thing it actually removes moisture from the air a bit like a dehumidifier.
So have you ever noticed before when you get into like a car when it's been raining
outside and you've got like a wet coat on and suddenly all of your windows mist up...if
you put your air conditioning on it will demist all of your windows on the inside.
And then finally the button after this is Auxiliary Heating now
this is only found on Plug-in Hybrids and All-Electric cars mainly because in
most internal combustion engines so like a petrol or diesel they have an engine and
the way the heating works it extracts heat from that engine and brings it in here nice and clean.
However with an All-Electric car they don't have an engine so they have an Auxiliary Heater to
make its own heat for the occupants on the inside.
So the way this works is if I switch this off and say it's nice and warm in here and you're
about to go into the shops or something if I tap this button it can put that heating on or cooling
and keep it nice and cool or warm on the inside ready for when you come back again.
Now this is also operated via the Mercedes me App so
say you...I don't know woke up in the morning it was really frosty you can actually de-ice your car
before you even get to get it nice and toasty or even pre-cool your car if it's really hot outside.
So that's what this is that's your Auxiliary Heating
or cooling for basically Plug-in Hybrids or All-Electric cars.
And then finally guys is that MENU button I mentioned that we would cover at the end
so tapping MENU puts all of those buttons up there onto the screen.
Now it doesn't do that for all models I do remember some models a few years ago that I'd
sat in that it doesn't do that it it was mainly for kind of Rear Climate Control which I'll cover
in a second but basically what this does it puts the climate control up to the screen.
So you can adjust the temperature here up and down just like this.
Now in some cars actually it does also show you
this button here called SYNC which on this car isn't here.
What SYNC does is actually synchronise both sides of the car.
So for example here I can set the climate control to
22.5 degrees for this side but then the passenger side is 20 degrees.
Now if I want it to be exactly the same I can tap the SYNC button & then it's
going to mirror both sides and then the driver side here will
kind of do both sides quite useful if you're on your own in the car.
Now if you're lucky enough to have rear climate
control then you may find a control panel in the back of the car as well.
So this actual car here is quite unique it's actually got Quad-Zone Climate Control meaning
the driver, passenger & two rear passengers have their own climate control as well.
Sadly the middle passenger will just have to make do I guess!
But yeah Quad-Zone Climate Control!
So in here you can actually adjust the where the air comes out so you've got
to your face to your feet mixture of the two or AUTO, let the car do automatically.
Then you've got the actual temperature control here so you can make it colder, warmer just
like this and the fan speed as well make that a bit more less or just turn the whole thing off.
So each control for this side and this side all controlled here
and of course you've got the vents you can move those around there just like that.
Now if you're up front then you may also want to change the climate control for the back
this is where you'll use that MENU button that I just mentioned and in there you'll
see the rear climate control, which you can adjust and of course change to your liking.
So say your passengers in the back for example have left it really really hot
and say it was 25 degrees in the back here and you're the only person in the car,
it's probably unlikely you're going to want this wall of heat in the back that's why you'll use
the SYNC button up the front to make sure it's all the same for the front and back.
So then guys on to the Tips & Tricks on the climate control now if you're lucky
enough to have one of the later multimedia systems called MBUX which kind of first
came out in 2018 on some models and kind of rolled out to a few more after that.
This has MBUX so it also features that "Hey Mercedes" voice assistant!
So did you know you can actually get that voice assistant to change
the temperature while you're on the move?
"Hey Mercedes!"
Car: "How may I help you?
"Can you change the temperature to 20 degrees please?"
Car: "I have set the temperature to 20 degrees"
Now next on the list is make sure you use your Air Conditioning!
I've seen countless times where people turn Air Conditioning off and of course then it's
been raining they have a wet coat and they get in the car and then all their windows mist up.
So did you know if you have your Air Conditioning on, it actually removes
moisture from the air and will actually demist all of your windows at the same time and yes you
can use it with cool and heat as well you don't have to just use it on cool which I know a lot
of us refer Air Conditioning too you can use it with heat as well and it acts as a dehumidifier!
Now here's a hidden tip and trick for you and this involves your recirculation button here!
So as I just mentioned in the previous section you can tap that and it stops the exterior air
coming in so nice and easy but there is a hidden feature on this particular button!
So say you put your windows down....
Maybe to about there for example?
And say you're about to drive through a tunnel and you want all of your windows up,
or say you're about to drive through an area where
it might be a bit smelly or I said the smoke outside or something.
Yes you could put all your windows up over here...but watch this!
If you hold the recirculation button all these windows will go up!
And when you've driven past said object or say the smoke or whatever like that
when you've got through the tunnel, if you hold that button again...the
windows will go back to exactly the same place they were before!
And did you know that on the heated rear window, if you put that on of course it
heats your rear window and de-mists that one but it also heats your mirrors as well!
So not many people know that if you've got lots of
condensation or kind of water residue on them from when it's been raining or something
if you put your heated rear window on it also puts your mirrors heated element on as well!
Quite a hidden feature because there aren't actually any actually symbols
in here that indicate that they're heated but
from pretty much every Mercedes-Benz I've sat in they always are so that is really really good.
Saves you have to wipe your mirrors off as well!
Now for my next one guys is for Plug-in Hybrid and All-Electric owners!
Did you know that you can set timers for your auxiliary heating so whether it be a
one-off timer for one day a week or even if you want to do a weekly kind
of set of different times and that sort of thing.
It's especially useful as well if it's really icy outside you can actually have your car
effectively de-ice itself ready for when you want to go.
Now yes you can just turn this manually on the app just like this here
flick the switch and then it will turn the heating on.
This one actually stays uh with the heating on for up to about 50 minutes but if you wanted
you can set weekly profiles different times for maybe when you leave for work in the morning!
And then finally guys my final tip & tick today is rest mode!
Now rest mode is quite rare it's not on every single Mercedes-Benz and
sadly it's not written in any of the brochures or anything
like that so you'll literally just have to have a look on your climate control.
And look really closely for the word "REST" and on this car it's just underneath the A/C button
so the way this works it's like a temporary residual heat thing so say you went to the
shops for example and you got it nice and warm in here because it's really cold outside
and what you do when you turn everything off and open the door
press the REST button as you get out and it will retain the heat in here for up to 30 minutes.
Now just remember that plug-in hybrids and all electric cars
won't have this because they have an auxiliary heater, theirs will work up to 50 minutes because
they have a high voltage battery and no engine so it's a little bit different.
But if you have that rest mode and you have a petrol or diesel
have a look and tap that when you want to keep it nice and warm here in the winter and
yeah it definitely works because I've had it on the car before and it's actually really
nice to get back into a nice warm car rather than have to heat up the interior again.
So that concludes that tip and trick there and there!
And there we have it then guys that concludes this week's video
on your Mercedes-Benz climate control.
Now this particular video was a suggestion from you guys in the comments down below
so if you have a suggestion yourself!
Let me know and I might just consider it for the future but as always huge shout
out to Sandown Mercedes-Benz as they help provide access to all the cars you see in
the video so it'd be very very tricky to do it without them so huge shout out to them!
But guys as always thank you so much for watching until next week Friday 4pm!
We'll see you then!