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- Apr 10, 2007
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- Bedfordshire
- Your Mercedes
- E300 Hybrid 2013
I have an E300 Hybrid.
Some months ago Mercedes contacted me and offered a free upgrade to ME.
This was installed, finally by myself after useless dealer support, and all seemed fine until about three months after installation TMC disappeared, or at least the onscreen info disappeared but the TMC indicator still showed a signal.
I contacted Mercedes support to be told that this is correct as I didn’t have a subscription, all new cars have TMC as a subscription but mine was bought before the days of subscription. However they could not sign me up for a subscription as my car was not equipped etc etc. Would I send a picture of the screen which I did including TMC showing active but no traffic displayed.
Many weeks later I was told to take the car to the dealer for an update which I did and bingo TMC reappeared but seemingly with less info than before but hey ho it worked.
That is until yesterday when I had Bluetooth unusually switched off on my phone and no TMC was displayed. Turned Bluetooth on and TMC reappeared.
Bottom line is that when bought TMC came through I guess the Highways Department and radio which worked best of all. I would dump ME if this provided a return to the original status.
Is anyone else in this situation? It would be good to exchange info as we all did in the hybrid battery fiasco.
Thanks.
Richard
Some months ago Mercedes contacted me and offered a free upgrade to ME.
This was installed, finally by myself after useless dealer support, and all seemed fine until about three months after installation TMC disappeared, or at least the onscreen info disappeared but the TMC indicator still showed a signal.
I contacted Mercedes support to be told that this is correct as I didn’t have a subscription, all new cars have TMC as a subscription but mine was bought before the days of subscription. However they could not sign me up for a subscription as my car was not equipped etc etc. Would I send a picture of the screen which I did including TMC showing active but no traffic displayed.
Many weeks later I was told to take the car to the dealer for an update which I did and bingo TMC reappeared but seemingly with less info than before but hey ho it worked.
That is until yesterday when I had Bluetooth unusually switched off on my phone and no TMC was displayed. Turned Bluetooth on and TMC reappeared.
Bottom line is that when bought TMC came through I guess the Highways Department and radio which worked best of all. I would dump ME if this provided a return to the original status.
Is anyone else in this situation? It would be good to exchange info as we all did in the hybrid battery fiasco.
Thanks.
Richard