Great. Thanks for sharing.12 months or 15k miles, whichever comes first. Alternates between Service A and B, brake fluid every 2nd year, air and fuel filter every 4th year, ATF and filter at 37k miles (or ?4 years old, not sure on this one).
The car will tell you when it needs a service
Great thanks. I will have a checkIf you want to know before it pops up on the dash, go into the menu system and click on assyst.
It should show which type of service is next and how many days until it's due.
A brain written by humans.Does the brains of the car use some sort of algorithm to calculate time of service from usage and time?
A brain designed and written by humans.Does the brains of the car use some sort of algorithm to calculate time of service from usage and time?
According to the handbook for my S203 which is on ASSYST (and therefore decides when it wants to be serviced) it analyses the oil in iorder to do that.
Does it actually analyse the oil or work it out from miles done, temeratures min/max and how long the journeys are?
My uneducated opinion is that ASSYST is all smoke and mirrors to 'show' a higher level of servicing intelligence.
I do hope there's more to it than I'm thinking, I'm just a doubting Thomas.
According to the handbook for my S203 which is on ASSYST (and therefore decides when it wants to be serviced) it analyses the oil in iorder to do that. I've always considered the oil the most important item to maintain a healthy engine and coupled with the facts that my annual mileage is reducing and we do a lot of local stop/start trips, I normally have the car serviced way in front of any expected mileage requirement and for the first time ever, it's just started showing "B Service due in 30...29... 28 etc days" in the OBD window.
Older ASSYST systems actually did measure oil quality and would deduct miles/time remaining depending on idle time, engine revs, journey times etc.
NEW ASSSYST just bases it on mileage/time as it makes more money for MB. MB have no reason to extend the service interval as long as possible.
I think mines just done on miles and time 2008 W204, for years I paid a set monthly fee for a service plan and only did around 4000 miles a year.
As I was paying the same as everyone else I would expect the same work to be done at the same intervals. They never offered a discount for the date extending and I suspect I got fewer parts fitted as some service parts would show as not needed due to low miles.
Hence my opinion of ASSYST not being a good thing from my point of view.