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Mercedes Me GRRRRRRRR !

keith of kent

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Kent
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E212 350 sport night edition estate , GLA 200 Sport Premium
Wife went to our local town to go swimming. About 45 mins after she got there Mercedes Me app on my phone notified me that her car was unlocked.
Obviously I cannot contact her so I drove a round trip of 22 miles with the spare key to lock it.
It was locked. The stupid app still said it wasn't evern though I unlocked and re locked it. Not amused. At least it gave the E350 a trip out and me a chance to see all the muppits driving in the fog with no lights on
 
Could you not send a lock request from the app??

Sometimes there are delays in the app showing the latest status/data. Completely shutting the app down and re-starting it sometimes helps.

Obviously if the car is parked in an area with poor phone signal (underground car park etc.) it may not be able to send updates.
 
This is happening a lot because of the 3G shutdown. Before about 2019 the cars had 3G comms modules that were linked to Vodafone 3G which is dead and gone. They drop back to EDGE or GPRS and thats slow and often the cars can't find a network as a result.
In many cars it is possible to replace the 3G hardware with 4G, but it is an expensive outing - unless you really want remote locking etc to be working particularly (or have a hybrid that you can turn the heating) etc
 
Have similar issues with the Porsche App which cost £100 pa for the privilege to get things monumentally wrong.

Oil level went from 100% to - TOP UP NOW , even though the car had not moved , luckily i had retrofitted a dipstick rather than relying on some digital measurement - others may have added a few litres of oil and damaged something internally.

Location is plus / minus about ten miles and updates whenever it feels like it.

Shows unlocked / locked at will .

Service / oil change dates fluctuate.

The only thing that is 100% accurate and never changes is the day they take the payment for their shoddy service.

K
 
Mercedes Me thinks my driver’s door is open, and all doors and boot are unlocked. It’s not. I think it’s just lost the signal and so shows an old status.
 

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