Sent Benzninja an email through his website, no response? Has he closed down?

 

Nope. He's still in business and available. What email did you send to? How long ago?

I know he stays pretty busy. I'm sure he'll respond.

 

Hello, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, at this moment, we will have to decline your application to our Club for now unless you could recommened directly by a current BenzNinja Club member that you know personnally. In that case we can sometimes make exceptions.



As a private Club, we have a zone-related membership policy that might change in the future accepting more.



Hoping that you will understand this.





Kind Regards,



BN

 

I think Peter now is being more selective towards new member.

 

Replaced and coded my faulty left headlight module. No regrets signing up. Also my GLS is done., highly recommended!

 

We were out of the country for 3 months so the Kraut didn't have a chance to fail but I had ordered a radar prior to leaving. Xentry was showing a failed right radar so I swapped the new one in but still no joy. Peter responded almost immediately and then spent about an hour which included updating the firmware on the unit. Eventually he determined that the left unit was in fact the bad one. I swapped in the one I had just removed from the right side and sure enough all was good. I can barely keep the marvel of German engineering on the road with Peter's assistance - I wouldn't dream of trying to do it alone.

 

He never sleeps I think

 

I recently purchased a 2002 C240 2.6L automatic sedan.

I have an Innova 3210RS and the Repair Solutions 2 app on my phone. That was fine to quickly scan the car at purchase for any issues. No codes after 2 weeks and runs fine. It has been a well looked after car, dealership visits every 10k km for service and now has 113k km.
I'm mechanically inclined and prefer to do my own servicing.
Would the BenzNinja membership & software be of significant value for this era of car or should I be looking at something different? Is it SDS/Xentry based?
Are the laptops listed on the BenzNinja site still the recommended ones to use? What else would I need to purchase and where from?

Thanks in advance for any useful comments.

 

Thanks for your comment. Seems to be very highly regarded both in product & support.

 

He definitely is!

 

I filled out the form and hope to get in.

New to me E63S.

Mods have started but I'm gonna need a ninja on my side!!

 

Good luck with the 63.

Ninja is also a wizard, he will make your car do all sorts of magic.

Enjoy

 

Hello, I've tried to order BenzNinja, I asked them few questions, for example, does the price include the VCI multiplexer or not, all they said is just pay the money then we will discuss the package later. I need a full working package (laptop, multiplexer, cables, software) if its only about software, I can download it online without the need to ship any thing, which saves time and money.

Any one have past experience with Benzninja, I would like to know what exactly are they, just software or hardware or even just a scam!

 

It is not a scam,
Subject to your geographic location, he will accept you.

You pay for membership to the Benz Ninja club.
He will then assist you with the purchase of the kit. (He guided me to an EBay site and I get everything that I paid for)
He will check that you have a suitable laptop, that you will dedicate solely to your car. No other software or games on it.
If you don’t, he will give you the specs for a suitable laptop.

Once you have the kit, he will log in to your laptop and set up all the necessary software and systems that allow you to inspect and work on your
Car. He will then guide you and help with connections and setup when connected to your car.

Some things are included in your membership and some other special modifications are restricted to certain models and some are charged a little bit extra.

I am a happy customer. He is available, I have got excellent results, like a replacement ECU, which he remoted in, backed up the old one, and reprogrammed the new one, once I fitted it.

Very happy and can confirm he is an expert in the field and knows more than many MB techs at the dealerships…

Be patient and go one step at a time.

 

This club is amazing!. You probably didn't read their FAQ before getting in touch. Reading reviews before posting is advisable, and your chances of being accepted into the club are probably close to zero now.

 

I'm in!

Waiting for all the hardware to arrive before moving to next phase. Super easy, quick responses. I'm happy so far!!

All in about $1380. Laptop $150, membership $540, hard drive $90 and C4 unit $600.

Simple dedicated laptop, mostly I assume that it's a known single point device so they don't ever get into laptop issues during install or whatever AND they send a standard SSD drive that's easy to install by enduser. $100-250. Doesn't need a hard drive as you buy the benzninja hard drive from them and it gets sent preloaded with OS and all software.

Benzninja membership price is slightly up due to tariffs. "Trump fees". Only around $40 more than the advertised $499. $460€ or ~$540US

Then his buddy messaged within a couple minutes, before I even finished the previous step, to introduce himself and let me know about the hard drive. Sent me a PayPal request, $89.

And finally, I paid top dollar for the C4 doip vehicle interface, but only because I wanted to make sure I got everything, in new condition etc. I didn't search at all, I purchased the link he sent me from fee bay, $543 plus tax etc. = $601

The hardest part is trying to find a reasonable cost on the laptop. It's a simple device but old. Not many to choose from and I was against spending $250 on that just on principle. Took a couple hours searching feebay but finally found one that accepted my offer when I told them I didn't need the hard drive. $135 plus tax.

I didn't ask the pricing on the custom stuff through benzninja but based on others responses, it seems reasonable compared to driving to a shop and paying someone, plus I get all the other perks of having something in hand AND I have a resource just a click away.

To be clear, I'm only buying for simple things, like ILS, coding out the SOS error message, drive mode memory etc. I have a warranty for the next 6 years so any real issues it can go to the dealer. I typically purchase whatever first line product is available and seems best for each vehicle I own. I have nanocom for my D2's, iiD Gap for my LR4 and VAG/VCDS on the Audi and VIDA/DICE on the wifey wagon. Anyway, I've used them all to some level or another and definitely below dealer pricing even just diagnosis pricing. And the Mercedes so far, seems like I'll use it the most. So $1400 is a no brainer. Example, dealer quoted $431 just to diagnose the SOS error message. And that's after I paid $1800 for 5 years of mbrace and they can't get the message to go away or some of the features to work, like remote start. What a scam. If I pay $1800 for something, it should work. I shouldn't get a response from the dealer that says that's a third party issue and they don't get involved other than diagnosis and repair. mbrace says they can't resolve and it needs to go to dealer. But I paid for a service and it's not working, now I have to pay for diagnosis?!? WTF? That's another story for another thread though.

Anyway, a reasonable cost for Benzninja membership and one click away help. Super excited to get started in a could weeks once everything arrives.

 

I have spent more hours repairing both my S211's with the laptop than handtools. Once up and running with my Benzninja laptop I had a self induced window and lock fault resolved within 20 minutes and that was the first time I had seen Xentry let alone used the system.
I try to solve problems without asking Peter if possible and so far l have succeeded and not needed him to dial in other than setting up the PC and unlocking Agility/Manual modes on my gearbox. Great peace of mind having Peter a text message away though.

 

C4 already arrived. Dang that was fast!!

 

Check the socket mounting screws on the C4 unit, mine had been overtightened splitting the socket plastic and eventually broke both sides.

 

Looks ok. Brand new unit, no issues visible

 

Anyone can install all software for a few bucks, native, no need SSD, Virtual Machine, nothing., no need to use his chinese crack and spybots. All his software is stolen chines crack of the crack.

The C4 is completely waste of money, nobody use C4 anymore. Openport for 15$ is much more stable. Ninja it;s just a scam, he force his lifetime members to bring other clients as he has to pay coders.

Also he post here under 58 acronyms praising his own name.

It's a very big scam.

It's abnormal and illegal to let your AMG to be coded under chinese crack and nigerian "knowledge". Sometimes the road has a left turn...

 

My understanding is that the C4 is the most reliable and stable when used with a wired connection. The C6 may be OK with a genuine Mercedes provided tablet, etc., but I have never had a problem with my C4 device using the @BenzNinja software. I won't even mess with OpenPort. You get what you pay for.

 

Yes because you use ninja meaning that you can't read Xentry's decent English.

So your opinion about Openport is meaningless

C6 C5...and all that is just Chinese generic names for nothing related with Mercedes

Openport is a replica of Tactrix and this has a driver so good as the Bosch original VCI became 0 value.

Is not about Openport HW, is only about the driver

I am a professional coder and I am also trained at the highest level at MB, you.... only forward ninja stolen copyrighted solutions and software and because of that you are in corporate complicity

 

Dude, everyone’s had enough of your crap. You’re not fooling anyone — you’re in Romania, not where you claim. Stop spamming people with your sketchy services through PMs. Your lies don’t fly here. Get a real job and quit being a scammer.

 

Not sure why you're so rude. If people like to use BN let them be. The avg DIY would be using C3-4 just for standard maintenance and repairs. If somebody is offering to set up well functioning software with warranty and does discounted coding on the side, what's it to you? It saves people alot of $ by DIY w/o the dealership for the majority of repairs. My cars are '99 and '02 so not interested at all in tuning.

Is Tactrix freeware? If not wouldn't that make Openport copied software as well?