C350e owners club

[Dodgy]

Ah, OK. Apologies. A bit of rooting around says full voice control is part of the Command package. If you have the Garmin sat nav, you can only voice control that.



Seems a bit of a swizz. I had voice dialling in a 2006 Alfa!

The MB sport spec is loaded compared to the Audi I had before it. I needed the black edition (half a step up from s-line) to get Bluetooth phone and cruise control.


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[Jonathon555]

-3.0 deg c this morning and I needed to cover 127 miles and I was late

Pumped it full of freezing cold super unleaded .

Needed to use some twisty back roads to beat the traffic chaos to reach the motorway

Used sport mode

The c350e earned its stripes , this car can really cover ground when needed.

The grunt making gaps on the outside lane is brilliant , you can feel the electric boost

I have had some fast cars but this is effective for everyday use

 

[Jonbar123]

Tomorrow is the long awaited day...

 

[Jonbar123]

Tomorrow is the long awaited day...

 

[Mat147]

Hey all, finally received mine today - quick question, when i go into traffic subscriptions (premium plus) it says the traffic is supported by TomTom but will expire in March 17 .... does anyone else have this or know how to extend?

Any other tips for a new owner also welcome


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[barnabylee]

yes, Ive noticed it to, and am pretty sure its the aircon.

Add me to the list for experiencing this noise. I would say it sounds like a relay chattering around the glove box area. As others have said, it seems to be first thing and stops after a couple of minutes.

Good news for me is I have just changed to a new C350e after 35000 miles in the first one and the new one doesn't do it.

 

[DDL]

Hi all

I took delivery of my c350e in April this year.


At about 1700 miles an error message appeared saying "Only Emode available, power limited, refuel immediately. The car had almost half a tank of fuel remaining (petrol). The car then suffered a total loss of power, which was quite scary. It went to the dealers, they did a load of checks, drained the fuel tank, checked sensors etc.


It has now happened again at 4700 miles. The car had been at the dealers for the last 3 weeks and surprise surprise they cannot find a fault.


Has anybody else suffered anything similar?

I've had this happen in exactly the same circumstances approaching a roundabout. Switched the ignition off then on again, engine fired up and never had it happen again. Now got approx 6k on the clock.

 

[KirkA]

From one dirty girl to a nice clean girl.

 

[KirkA]

Foamed up.

 

[KirkA]

Won't stay clean for long though.

 

[Jonbar123]

Love the new car. Sat nav is shocking though. But hey first world problem if ever there was one

 

[doh69]

I've had my C350e estate for 8 days now and really enjoying it. I share a couple of 1st world gripes that seem quite common - only one place you can see the outside air temp, and telephone "speed" dials take about 15 steps to get to - both of these seem to be poor design of the on-board computer system user interface. Other than that, It's really good.

I'm curious though about the cost of charging the battery compared to buying petrol. Does anyone know roughly what the cost/mile is for petrol compared to charging and using the battery? (assuming average petrol and electricity prices, etc)? I can charge the Merc at work for free, but as it's a 40 mile journey home, the battery doesn't last the whole journey so I always need to re-charge overnight at home.

 

[doh69]

I've had my C350e estate for 8 days now and really enjoying it. I share a couple of 1st world gripes that seem quite common - only one place you can see the outside air temp, and telephone "speed" dials take about 15 steps to get to - both of these seem to be poor design of the on-board computer system user interface. Other than that, It's really good.

I'm curious though about the cost of charging the battery compared to buying petrol. Does anyone know roughly what the cost/mile is for petrol compared to charging and using the battery? (assuming average petrol and electricity prices, etc)? I can charge the Merc at work for free, but as it's a 40 mile journey home, the battery doesn't last the whole journey so I always need to re-charge overnight at home.

 

[Dodgy]

I've had my C350e estate for 8 days now and really enjoying it. I share a couple of 1st world gripes that seem quite common - only one place you can see the outside air temp, and telephone "speed" dials take about 15 steps to get to - both of these seem to be poor design of the on-board computer system user interface. Other than that, It's really good.

I'm curious though about the cost of charging the battery compared to buying petrol. Does anyone know roughly what the cost/mile is for petrol compared to charging and using the battery? (assuming average petrol and electricity prices, etc)? I can charge the Merc at work for free, but as it's a 40 mile journey home, the battery doesn't last the whole journey so I always need to re-charge overnight at home.

40 Mpg / 10 Miles per battery
£1.20 Price per litre / £0.10 Price per kWh
£5.40 Price per gallon / 5.58 Usable battery kWh
£0.14 Price per mile / £0.06 Price per mile

Sorry the table looks rubbish. Not sure how to format it...

Most of my electricity is nighttime @ 5.3p per kWh, so I'm closer to 3p per mile on electric. There's a bigger variation in electric costs between summer and winter than there is on petrol costs.

 

[AlanMulrine]

Car was meant to be delivered 20th now possibley put back until jan :-(

 

[AlanMulrine]

Just more out of curousity, ivopted for the premier pack and it claims to giveambient lighting what colour choices sre available on this?

 

[Pmg102]

, and telephone "speed" dials take about 15 steps to get to -

Have you looked into using the Favourites? The star near the controller knob? I can phone my wife in 3 steps....

 

[Pmg102]

Hopefully I can help...

The data that is being sent from the Mercedes website to the web app looks like this:


"liquidconsumptionreset": {
"value": 6.6,
"ts": 1475125942,
"status": 0
},
"liquidconsumptionstart": {
"value": 1.6,
"ts": 1475239280,
"status": 0
},

The TS is a TimeStamp - and the value is litres per 100 km.

Their code running in the browser to convert to mpg, looks something like this:

MILES_TO_KILOMETER:1.609344
KILOMETER_TO_MILES:.621371192
LITER_PER_100KM_TO_MILES_PER_GALLON_UK:282.4809363
LITER_PER_100KM_TO_MILES_PER_GALLON_US:235.2145833

MPG_Value = 282.48 / value

so for me... 1.6 litres/100km = 176.55 (the value it shows in the app is 176.6)


Then there is this curious piece of code:

b.constant("USER_CONSUMPTION_COMBUSTION",
{L_100KM:{// [l/100km] id:1,value:"UNIT_METRIC_CONSUMPTION_COMBUSTION_LONG",upperLimit:20},
MPG_UK:{// [mpg] (UK) id:2,value:"UNIT_IMPERIAL_CONSUMPTION_COMBUSTION_UK",upperLimit:80},
MPG_US:{// [mpg] (US) id:3,value:"UNIT_IMPERIAL_CONSUMPTION_COMBUSTION_US",upperLimit:80},
KM_L:{// [km/l] id:4,value:"UNIT_METRIC_CONSUMPTION_COMBUSTION_PER_LITER",upperLimit:40}}),

The important bit being: "upperLimit:80"

So... I would expect if they changed it from upperLimit:80 to upperLimit:999 then all would be well with the world

It seems an 'easy' fix - however I don't know what the knock on impact of changing this value is without full access to their code. But it seems pretty black and white.

Hope this helps

I haven't passed this onto Mercedes - so feel free to send it across on my behalf, and PM me if they want me to send more details of how to fix their system

Not sure anyone will be that interested. But the WebApp is now showing up to 99.9 mpg on the trip page. And looking at the code, it looks like they've updated it as I suggested

b.constant("USER_CONSUMPTION_COMBUSTION",{L_100KM:{
// [l/100km] id:1,value:"UNIT_METRIC_CONSUMPTION_COMBUSTION_LONG",upperLimit:20},MPG_UK:{
// [mpg] (UK) id:2,value:"UNIT_IMPERIAL_CONSUMPTION_COMBUSTION_UK",upperLimit:99.9},MPG_US:{
// [mpg] (US) id:3,value:"UNIT_IMPERIAL_CONSUMPTION_COMBUSTION_US",upperLimit:99.9},KM_L:{
// [km/l] id:4,value:"UNIT_METRIC_CONSUMPTION_COMBUSTION_PER_LITER",upperLimit:99.9}})

Although still not sure why they couldn't have made it 999 - my journey this afternoon would have been 170 mpg.

 

[Pmg102]

Although still not sure why they couldn't have made it 999 - my journey this afternoon would have been 170 mpg.

and yes - this is actually a bit disappointing... I managed about 9 miles on E-Mode from a fully charged car (100% -> 9%)

But hey - still love the car!

 

[derekthetree]

Just more out of curousity, ivopted for the premier pack and it claims to giveambient lighting what colour choices sre available on this?

White, blue and orange.

But the button highlights all remain orange so blue looks a bit odd. I run white