Hello family. how are you. I hope it's ok. a technical question. Yesterday I went out with the car on the highway and when I passed 120 km per hour, which is the maximum speed allowed in Spain on the highway. I get a message in yellow on the instrument panel that says. YOU HAVE EXCEEDED THE PERMITTED SPEED LIMIT OF 120 KM PER HOUR. and there it stays until I give the OK button on the steering wheel and it goes away. but if I slow down again and go over 120 km per hour, it goes back out. and so always. Does anyone know why this happens to me??? I didn't get out of that before, I'm sure. I have looked at all the settings on the box and there is nothing there that I have activated. also in command. and nothing. I have the device connected to the OBD port. MERCEDES ME ADAPTER. and I've also looked at all the settings there and nothing is activated. it may be that you have inadvertently activated something in XENTRY/DAS. in. KI. but I've looked and I don't see any of that information. or I don't see it. Has anyone else had this happen to them??? . which feature in DAS/ in instrument cluster. KI. I have to look to see if I have activated it in some carelessness. Thank you, good Sunday to all, greetings from Spain.

 

Highly likely with your drive to play with cluster features - you have enabled the winter tyre nag to stop your snow chains trashing your wheel arches - should be a menu in the user section to turn it off - I think it sits lower down and have to scroll wheel buttons to see it

RTFM

 

thank you sir for your reply. I will look more carefully to see where I have to click to disable this option. Thank you.

 

settings menu - you can:

....
set the speed limit for winter tyres
turn on the silly other speedo
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thank you very much

 

was that it ?

in the cluster stuff u aren't supposed to know about, I think they buried another iteration of this in there and some taxi driver BS - and user memories for temp units, temps set points alongside the seat and mirrors - or do the first two actually work anyway? but if so why 4 memories when they only give three to play with ? I think it was a step in play they never bothered with?

 

Hi sir. following this topic. I still haven't solved it. in the KI instrument cluster. I've looked at the winter tire settings and it's off. so all that remains is for me to connect DAS to the car and calmly see what I have inadvertently activated to get this warning and deactivate it again. I'll look at DAS SIMULATION first. And if I solve this problem, I'll let you know here to give the solution in case a colleague happens to them one day. thanks friend. a greeting.

 

so it would seem you were playing with stuff you don't understand

coding level - the standard setting Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung aus - Speed limit off

I'm guessing a sick joke for markets where drivers aren't allowed to think for themselves - like USA and Japan

 

hey maybe you can help me - please check this setting for your car

Ölstandanzeige nicht vorhanden - or - vorhanden ?
Engine Oil level warning not available, aka OFF - or - available, aka ON ?

 

Hello BOTUS. You are right that there are things I don't understand. but I make an effort every day trying to learn to use XENTRY/DAS only for my car and private use. I had to make the decision to get a diagnostic kit. XENTRY / DAS version 2016 with offline programming with SD FLASH database from 2008 to 2016 and I had to make this investment because here every time I went to the Mercedes house in my town it was impossible to receive decent attention I always listened comments that my car was my old one and that they were no longer interested in wasting time on such old cars. Of the 15 times I went to make a simple diagnosis, I only managed to get them to attend me once and they charged me 100 euros for a diagnosis. and I told myself it's over if I want to keep this car and that I love it. I have to get a diagnostic kit. And it's been a year since I've been with my team doing my diagnoses on my car and with the little I've learned in activating and coding many things and all with success and without any problem. Before activating something, I always look for all the possible information and videos on how to do it and then I practice at home in DAS SIMULACION. and when I have it clear I go to the car and do it. I know that I still have a lot to learn but with dedication and with great care I can master this program in such a way that I can do what I want to my car whenever possible. I also have to say that thanks to this great forum and to people like you and many other forum members I have learned a lot and I thank everyone. I'm trying to encode two options that I can't do: 1. I would like to activate the message that the key is in the box when I turn off the car and open the door. I have activated it in KI but I cannot get this option to be activated. and the 2 is to activate in the instrument panel that it remembers the last menu when I turn off the car. It always appears in the km menu. I don't get this option in KI I don't know why. I do not have this option to activate. however in DAS SIMULATION when I put another variant of KI if I get this option. I guess it will be because my box is very old even if it has the latest update. I don't know if there is any way to activate it. I'm still looking for solutions for this. The same thing happens to me with the fuel consumption graph. I would like to have it but I can't activate it, although I know of other forums of colleagues who have it activated in a car like mine from 2005. In short, it's all these little things and many more. that I want to activate and they force me to learn and investigate whether or not they can be done with XENTRY /DAS. Dobre du question if I have activated the oil level in my car. Yes. if I have it activated. I activated it on its day but I did not see any change in the instrument panel or any information about it. anything i can help you with. I will be happy to do it. thanks always for your help. a greeting.

 

I get why you want dealer tools - shame they make them so user unfriendly - like a muddled mess of English and German, and at times grammar that isn't suitable in either language

there is a level in Xentry that lets you get further - most main dealers have this OFF as they don't train garages on the fact it exists let alone how to use it - developer mode - is a deeper level - but you can wreck the car - this is really a tool used during "development" aka build of the car by the engineers making them.

there are people that flash mix and match files at the cluster - likely discovered when hacking the mileage - but its risky and I don't know anyone that adds the features - and the early cars have limited storage to write larger files without it going pop

the best way to get much more support and can help with lots of stuff - benzninja knows lots about mercedes and how to use all the features of the software packages that can get at these vehicles - you need to re-invest in your software package

 

get the Ninja and never stress

 

Hello friend, I forgot to tell you that I have DEVELOPER MODE AND SPECIAL FUNCTIONS activated on my XENTRY/DAS. in fact all the coding i have done on my car has been in developer mode. But as I told you before, I still have a lot to learn. and I know that our friend and colleague BENZ NINJA is a true master in this matter. In fact, if my economic situation improves, he is the one I will go to to improve my diagnostic equipment. I know that with Dts monaco and Vediamo you can do a lot of encoding but you also have to know how to work very well with these programs since they tend to be more complicated. At the moment with my XENTRY/DAS I am keeping my car up to date and every day I spend some time reading and getting information in the different forums and YouTube videos. about encodings. greetings friend and greetings to BENZ NINJA.

 

the way I see the cluster options is

dealer level (temps speed units and not much else)
developer level, add this toy or that option, but the choices available are hardware and of course software dependant
what seems to go wrong is the saving and rebooting so it wakes up using the changes can be inconsistent

but of course that's not it for everything - lots of feature like more involved displays of fuel consumption, a coffee cup, high beam assist etc.all came with far later builds and higher option levels

my thoughts why you can't have all those by just ticking a box
the gateway would need to be able to understand what it is and where to send it,
the data actually needs to exist - and this is linked to features inside modules of later cars, which comes from hardware, software and sensor changes of any relevant modules or indeed more modules, cameras, etc.
the brain of the cluster would have to be big enough to programme and even then the hardware must able to cope (and the early ones were a bit naff)

 

Thank you for your advice and all the information you share with me. I appreciate it so much. You have all the reason. My car, being one of the first to leave the factory in 2005, is very limited. I will have to settle for everything that I have been able to code and that was not there before. I thought that by being able to activate many options that I did not have before, I could continue coding everything else to my liking, but I see that it is not possible or at least I cannot do it with xentry / das. it may be possible with vediamo or monaco but they are knowledge that I do not understand. So I'll settle for what I've been able to achieve. once again a thousand thanks. a greeting. Thank you.