Zavato

I received the text today while I was in my car, a few minutes after I started off to work. No alarm actually went off. Anyone ever had experienced that as well?

Thanks all

RNajarian

Does your car have M-Brace? Tele-Aid? Where did the email come from? (Who sent it?)

EDIT:
Answering my own question, likely you have M-Brace, here is the description of the service from Mercedes.

"Automatic Alarm Notification provides the customer with real-time alerts when the anti-theft alarm in their parked vehicle has been triggered. This gives the customer the extra measure of peace of mind by not having to worry about the vehicle’s safety when they are away from it.

Should the alarm trigger, the in-vehicle Telematics Control Unit (TCU) sends a signal to
the Mercedes-Benz mbraceTM Response Center. Upon receipt of the signal, the mbraceTM Response Center automatically alerts the customer via his or her preferred communication method: e-mail, text message or phone call.

How it Works:

1) The alarm system senses that someone is tampering with the parked vehicle.

2) The TCU sends a signal to the Mercedes-Benz mbraceTM Response Center that the anti-theft alarm has been triggered.

3) The mbraceTM Response Center notifies the customer via his or her preferred method of communication."

So IF you have M-Brace, it is POSSIBLE the email was Generated from the TCU which for some reason erroneously identified the car being tampered with, likely before you unlocked and started the car, you bumped into it, the car identified itself being tampered with, the TCU sent the signal to the M-Brace service center, that then generated the text. As you know sometimes texts can take minutes to be received.

Of course this theory is based on the assumption you have the M-Brace Subscription.

Zavato

I do have m-brace. The text came Within a minute or two after pulling away from home