I'm sure this must have been asked before.

I have a 2022 GLS and have two profiles and two keys.

Simply put I want to be able to open the car with one key and that linked to one profile and the other profile linked to the other key!

Also the easy entry/exit function does not seem to work.

Basically my wife has the seat way more forward than me! When I go to the car I can't actually get onto the car until I move the car seat backwards using the door controls. Then I can get in the car choose my profile from the centre screen .then finally I can press the relevant memory setting to get the car sear into the correct position!

My old 2017 volvo. I would open the car with 'my key and as soon as the door opened the seat would move to my position and everything done for me! Simples!

 

sorry, not possible. MB is key agnostic. only when you select the profiles, after you start the car, it assigns custom settings.

 

As said above, profiles can't be linked to keys, also the seat position is not part of the profile, only the stored memory positions, so the seat doesn't automatically move to your last position. As far as the easy entry/exit is concerned, make sure it's enabled in both profiles, so that the seat moves back when your wife gets out of the car.

 

our seats are linked to our profiles.
mirror settings, steering, seats, dash configs, climate settings.

 

This might have changed in recent years and I just checked the owner's manual. The highlighted part is probably the key. Seat won't move if the driver's door is open.

 

the manual is correct.
if you keep your driver door ajar, while calling up the profile, the seat settings won't get applied.
if you change the profile, while the door is closed, it recalls the seat settings.

my '18 S560, '20 GLS580, '21 GT, '22 GLB, all link the profiles with seat settings.

 

Thats sooo last century. I have the easy entry exit on both profiles - still does not move

Also stupid - the whole point is i cant get in and sit in the car seat to close the door UNTIL the seats have moved!!!

 

hahaha. I totally can relate to you.
my GT has rather deep seats with very aggressive side bolstering.
at least the memory seat setting has my setting linked and I can hit that button on the door.

yes, it would be so much better if MB was linked to the keys like my BMW or Porsche.


every time after my wife drives it, I can't even get in to select my profile. haha

 

I'm assuming you have set it to steering wheel and seat. Does the steering wheel move up? I've read that the seat moving is disabled in some markets for some models because of the risk of a rear passenger getting their feet crushed by the sudden moving of the seat. I suppose there are conceptional issues with this feature.

As far as assigning profiles to key fobs goes, that's also not straight forward as generally the association happens when the car is locked, so you always have to make sure you lock the car with your fob and your wife locks the car with her fob and you never keep it unlocked in between, otherwise it could happen that suddenly your wife's key fob remembers your seat position and vice versa. My previous Audi had this feature. I was the only driver, so it didn't matter to me, but I've read several reports of where the settings got confused between two fobs for folks who did share a car, and I found it annoying that when I grabbed the spare fob for some reason, all my settings were different.

Yeah, this won't help you either. Again this is back to the previous point where if somebody gets in the back first before you open your driver's door, their feet could get crushed. I suppose they could be smarter about it and use the weight sensor in the rear seat to determine if somebody is in the back and not move the seat, but move it if nobody is in the back.

Honestly, sharing a car between people with significant height differences is never w/o pain. My wife is a tiny Asian woman who sits almost on top of the engine and needs an additional seat cushion, whereas I have the seat almost all the way back. I solved this by getting her her own car that's more her size and I have my car. She never drives my car, but I occasionally drive hers and I just accept that I have to move the seat back first and when I'm done I move it back to her position.

 

[QUOTE=superswiss;8797560]I'm assuming you have set it to steering wheel and seat. Does the steering wheel move up? I've read that the seat moving is disabled in some markets for some models because of the risk of a rear passenger getting their feet crushed by the sudden moving of the seat. I suppose there are conceptional issues with this feature.

As far as assigning profiles to key fobs goes, that's also not straight forward as generally the association happens when the car is locked, so you always have to make sure you lock the car with your fob and your wife locks the car with her fob and you never keep it unlocked in between, otherwise it could happen that suddenly your wife's key fob remembers your seat position and vice versa. My previous Audi had this feature. I was the only driver, so it didn't matter to me, but I've read several reports of where the settings got confused between two fobs for folks who did share a car, and I found it annoying that when I grabbed the spare fob for some reason, all my settings were different.


Are we sure about the profile assignment to key fobs?
I went through (and still have) four recent model MBs and none of them are able to do that.
I spoke with services advisors at three different dealerships and MBUSA custermer support. and they all told me that MB only controls it via Profiles and there are no correlations to the fobs. they intentionally did this so any family members can grab any keys and drive the car the same way.

I don't know about Audis, but my BMW and Porsche do what you're saying above and associates the settings to the fob used.
but as far as I know, and have experienced, MBs do not have that capability.

let me know if you are 100% what you're saying is confirmed. I'll ping up my MB service guys again.

 

If you read my first post, I'm clearly stating that MB doesn't associate profiles with key fobs. I'm just elaborating on how it works in cars such as Audi etc.

 

aha. my fault.

 

Well it was painless in my 2017 Volvo XC90. As soon as unlocked the door and opened it the seat started to move. A short wait and seat ready for me to sit.

Maybe once in 3 months it would get confused and it was just a matter of selecting the correct seat memory and locking un locking the door a couple of times.

Also you could remote start the car engine engine to preheat the cabin or spin the fans in summer to a least take some of the heat out of the cabin.

Strangely MB cant manage to do that and claim local regularity issues (uk/europe). Strange how volvo didnt have the issues.

It's annoying as the car is soo much more refined (and quieter to drive) just some basic comforts that let it down.

 

Each car manufacturer makes their own decisions. Perhaps a Volvo is a better fit for you overall. MB has gone a different route with the profiles. The latest models now switch profiles based on facial recognition or fingerprint, but obviously that doesn't help if you can't get into the car in the first place or reach the fingerprint reader. First world problems I suppose. We used to have to manually adjust seats, oh horror!

As for remote start, I don't know what the regulations were back in 2017 in the UK, but it is 2023 now and remote start is illegal in Europe. Don't know when the regulations went into effect in each country, but remote start can't be offered in Europe anymore. Volvo's current marketing material also says "Certain markets only". Idling an unattended vehicle is illegal these days in Europe. MB does have remote start, though. We have it here in the USA, because it's still legal at least in most places. It's technically illegal in some municipalities, but not at the federal and state level. It requires a subscription, though, and I didn't renew it last year, because I never used it. But they now consolidated the a-la-carte subscriptions into a single subscription package, so when I renew in September I will have remote start again.

 

What's curious is that they have this technology, or very similar, already on the car. Both the windows and the trunk lid have "safety stop" features. Would it be that difficult to apply it to the front seats.

 

same…I just use the door memory button now

 

yeah, it is just the typical reminder for me for why I think Mercedes nowadays is a very inferior product to BMW in terms of daily use and technology. Not only BMW would recognize the physical key for each driver, but it would also recognize the phone, and it can also recognize two phones at the same time depending on which phone is closer to the driver door as we both get into the car. The vehicle could tell if it’s me or my wife who’s driving just using our phones.

Meanwhile, not only that Mercedes does not have phone as a key, It does not even have physical key recognition for the driver. I don’t understand what’s going on with Mercedes on the technology side of things for the past 10 years. Not even wireless CarPlay in my GLS even for 2023 model year? Sorry guys I’m just frustrated about my own car and a brand that’s becoming hard to understand.