HAWKiS63

Strange............since a few weeks it seems not possible anymore to send Google Maps locations to your car (using Mercedes Connect ME): https://www.google.com/maps/sendtocar

Mercedes was always one of the car brands supporting this, now more and more car brands support this, but.........Mercedes stopped doing this?!

Pity, since I used it quit a lot. Now I have to use the workaround on my smartphone, but using it with Google Maps on my desktop was very convenient.

Any idea why they stopped this?

HAWKiS63

Found more info about this here

Unbelievable that Mercedes and Google (for political / corporate policy reasons!) stopped with this service. Used it for many years in my Audi, and since a few months in my (first ever) Mercedes.

Because of the connection of Mercedes with HERE, I assume Mercedes is the cause of this, not Google, but who knows.

"Great" welcome experience that more and more online features are withdrawn from modern Mercedes cars: fuel prices, free parking places, etc were also removed recently from the Mercedes Apps, but still work on every Audi from a few years old and more to come.

Apparently now you have to use HERE (https://wego.here.com/ , then select Share, the Car and then you can choose Volvo or Mercedes and fill in your details),. but who will use that in a market dominated completed by Google?

Let's see how Mercedes officlals can "explain" this to her customers ("because we did invest in HERE, you must use it now, whether our customers want it or not").

HAWKiS63

Some new information about the stakes of Mercedes (and BMW and Audi) in HERE.

Beemie

Has anyone successfully used wego.here.com? I have not been able to get it to recognize my vehicle (2015 E350) by entering the VIN.

I'm now without any sort of desktop workaround. This is hugely disappointing, and I used Google Maps Send to Car so frequently I would pay to bring this service back. The "Send to Benz" feature is worthless for searched addresses, and I can't stand using my phone for these sorts of things.

pjw1967

"You vill do what you are told, and you vill like it" (Colonel Klink).

Beemie

I've been hearing that a lot lately. Must just be another part of The Upside Down.

HAWKiS63

Yep, for me the wego.here.com variant works using a desktop (Windows 7 and Windows 10, both with Chrome browser).

Be sure that your Car ID indeed is your chassis number or something else (has to be set once in the Mercedes ME App config).

BTW, free parking places and fuel prices will be back soon, as well as some cool new features, I understood from Mercedes sources.

pjw1967

I have a '14 ML350 but no mbrace. It looks like I need mbrace to use sendtobenz. Is that correct?

Thanks.

Beemie

HAWKiS63, what year is your car, or are you in the US? I still cannot get wego.here.com to work. I've logged into MercedesMe and see no info for an ID other than my VIN. This is extremely frustrating and when I called Customer Service (via Mbrace) they had never heard of wego.here.