7 Hidden Features You Didn’t Realize They Exists in Your Mercedes-Benz!

Today, in this article we’re going to cover 7 Hidden Features that you didn’t realize your Mercedes had!

Let’s Start At #1: Assign a Family Member to “Hey, Mercedes!”

So, for the first one is for anyone who has a fairly modern Mercedes-Benz with that MBUX multimedia system and it’s famous “Hey, Mercedes!” voice assistant. Did you know that you can assign family relatives to the voice assistant for the people who are kind of most important to you. People like your brother, parents, grandparents, and you can basically ask the voice assistant to call that specific relation. If you say the magic phrase “Hey, Mercedes, call my Brother” then it will call the person you’ve saved on that relation.

#2 Hold Feature

Now for the next one, guys, did you know about the HOLD feature on Mercedes-Benz? This is present on virtually all MBs. It is such a good tip and trick, so we have to put in a top of our list, thou. Here we go: when you come to a stop, in all automatic you put your foot on the brake pedal, car comes to a stop. The next thing you’d normally do is keep your foot on the brake pedal and just wait till the traffic lights or whatever until you’re ready to go, and as soon as you take your foot off the brake pedal, you’ll start to go forward again. Now the HOLD feature is built into this brake pedal, so if I hold my foot on the brake pedal again, come to a stop but using the brake pedal give it a very ‘Short’ & ‘Sharp’ press down to the floor and than it will show “HOLD” on the screen. And when this feature is on you can take away your feet away of the pedals and literally it will stay here, until you are ready to go. And to release it just tap your foot on the accelerator pedal and you are heading on!

#3 Sunroof Auto Close

Now another hidden feature on Mercedes-Benz is that if you’re lucky enough to have a sunroof on your vehicle it may include an auto close feature! For example, in case of rain onto the rain sensor it detects the rain and the sunroof closes automatically for you. That’s such a cool safety feature to prevent a flooding of your interior. Not all MBs have this, but it is found on pretty much MBs over the past few years or so.

#4 Next Track Button

Now for the next hidden feature today, guys, is the ‘Next Track’ button. This is something you can use every single day and you’ll find that with some manufacturers they have like a previous track or next track button on the steering wheel. Because MB are all digital and they have digital displays and futuristic looking, they don’t actually have that on the actual steering wheel. Yes, you could press the ‘Home’ button and then change this and put that section to ‘Media’, but than you lose that vital information the big digital speed. Most people are like to keep that Speed cluster in the middle. So there is an easier way to changing your track, in the middle on the touchpad is a next and previous track button. If you click this in it will bring up a sub menu on the screen. For example you are on the nav screen and you are navigating somewhere and you want to change to the next track, just click that button in and then you can swipe that left or right to change the track without losing the Nav screen.

#5 Haptic Feedback Settings

Now while we are on the topic of the touchpad you can actually adjust some of the more finer settings of the touchpad and its haptic feedback and sensitivity and that sort of thing. If you ever want to change this just swipe the touchpad all the way to the right hand side and go to ‘Settings’ and then in here go to ‘System’ and then the menu called ‘Controls’. In here you can adjust things from the ‘Touchpad Sensitivity’. You can even turn on the thing called ‘Touchpad tap’, so that enables you to literally tap the touchpad instead of actually forcefully clicking it in and on top of this. As well you can even adjust the ‘Haptic Operating Feedback’. Its just a few customizations there of the actual touchpad itself.

#6 What3Words

Now next up, guys, is a feature that is definitely underrated in the Mercedes-Benz world and that is a thing called ‘What3Words’ integration. If you haven’t heard of What3Words before, basically it’s a separate company who have literally mapped out the entire world with 3x3 meter squares. When you trying to navigate in the specific point this is where What3Words comes in. So you’ll not get lost!

#7 Full Beam Manual Control

Driving a MB at a night time is definitely an experience, especially if you have adaptive headlights like Intelligent Light System, Multi Beam Led or even Digital Light. These sophisticated systems kind of adapt your full beam automatically at night time. When cars come towards you it can dip those headlights down, but most importantly giving you full beam everywhere else apart from that car. Such a cool tech!

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Anatoliy Rachinskiy, BMP Autoservice Founder & CEO.

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