​​​​​​Idk might just be me, but I think his entire company is ran through a AI program, from the YouTube vids to his website and communication. I made a account and all, but have no clue what I am suppose to do or who I am paying

 

Still, he is selling a product. You are bootlegging it. I guess as you are in Illinois I should not be shocked.......(note: I was from there most of my life, got the he11 out)

 

Well paying full price to enable 1 thing doesnt sound to appealing unfortunately especially when everything being marketed has amg tax added on.

 

So, if you feel you are not getting a good value...stealing is okay. Hmmmm.

 

No one is stealing anything. If he got the software from another source, he is selling his own services to someone else for less money. Sounds like the person has star diagnostics, which is mb software, but just calls it benzninja

 

No matter how you cut it, it is theft of intellectual property and product. For instance, my tools at my work....they are worth nothing with out our TRAINED staff using them. If our staff used our devices and did not bill, or did a private pay thing - they would be arrested. That is THEFT. There is no way for you to justify theft. Theft is theft. Hell, you are not even a hungry person stealing food (I give that a pass). Seems to me you are trying to bribe friends to meet you at Woodfield in exchange for bootleg work product from @BenzNinja

 

You mentioned your work tools who your EMPLOYER bought are useless without trained workers(again employer trained workers) , so clearly it's not the same as someone who purchased the software full price for themself with their own money, and are now offering the service to others to recoup. If I bought a Mercedes Benz scan tool and used it to scan other people's cars, is that also theft or is that a service I am providing because I am not a trained mb tech?

 

You said "BenzNinja Mods".....so, you admit that BenzNinja provided them (at a cost). So, if I go to Chicago ever again (I wont, what a ghetto dump)....if I go to House of Blues again...can you sneak us into the side door, or, would that be dishonest?

Simply, you are not an honorable person. I hope it is just youth.

(Oh, HOB a few weeks ago). I paid full price...gladly.

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Glad you enjoyed your show. Il continue saving money, seems to be working well for me and others

 

Are you sure you were on the right site? There is no online account to make unless you join the BenzNinja Club. And then, it's only to communicate with Peter via WhatsApp. How did you set up an account?

 

Sorry, but you're not making any sense. Clearly you have not joined the BenzNinja Club or you would realize that.

All the software provided to club members are not re-branded. XENTRY, DAS, HHT, DTS Monaco, Vediamo, etc. are labeled exactly what they are.

 

What I am saying is someone who has already bought mb software for coding, does not have to be Benz ninjas software or anything associated with him, I beleive they can choose to do whatever they want with that software, even if it means coding other people's cars for less money.


Example : I spent 600 dollars on bmw coding software 7yrs ago for my bmw I used to own. I use it till this day to program, code and do other stuff on bmws only to make some side cash. Just last week I coded a x3m to be rwd, made 150 bucks for 45min of my time.

 

That's hardly the same thing. I've used Ross-Tech VAG-COM (a.k.a, VCDS) in the past to code configuration changes on my Audis and VWs, and while VAG-COM/VCDS fully emulates the Audi/VW official diagnostic tool, it comes nowhere near the complexity of using XENTRY/DAS and other programming tools to make changes to a Mercedes. Why call out and attack @BenzNinja and imply that he is something that he is not? If you have ever actually used BenzNinja you would know and appreciate his depth of knowledge with regards to diagnosing Mercedes and configuring/enabling hidden features. No one would suggest that Uwe Ross is something he is not or try to undermine his genius.

By the way, you never did answer the question about how you "created an account" with BenzNinja.

 

I am in no way calling out any vendor or benzninja at all. If it sounded like it I apologize, maybe a miscommunication somewhere.

I went through his website, looked at his YouTube links that was on his channel with that AI man talking. Flashy screen and all.

 

I'm not sure if he does his own website and videos, but if so, they are not representative of the work he does on our cars. If he uses AI, then good for him. AI makes my intelligence seem artificial.

 

I saw that AI dude on the website too. I didn't care for it. I also agree it was difficult to make the leap to buying benzninja because it's not clear what you're buying. Now that I did I'm happy. He has looked at my car a few times but hasn't actually fixed anything because, so far, since I was 16, if I can't fix it it seems nobody can. Not that I'm a super expert, I just tend to attract unfixable problems. Since most all problems are now electronic, it makes this issue much more pronounced. I think all the MB I've got rid of were because they were unfixable. Not undrivable, but they get an unfixable CEL so I can't pass smog, despite there being nothing wrong. No smog means no registration, so I drive dirty or get another car. My current car is unfixable too, but I have a trick get it past the **** checkpoint. Otherwise it would be yet another parts car, or maybe they all go to Mexico, who knows.

Having the Xentry and other programs is nice. I don't really have much need for them, but it's nice to double check that part xyz is broken and not even Xentry can see the problem. Or xyz is fine, but misc scanners, including Xentry, say it is broke. On this forum you may get pushed into a corner where people insist you need a "certified MB specialist" to diagnose it before they will talk to you. Horse sht imo, but ninja qualifies as said expert and his lifetime service probably costs less than one trip to MB.
Btw, here's the list of things Xentry, or the MB dealer has fixed for me:

 

So, you are a member of the BenzNinja Club?

What is the unfixable problem you have?

XENTRY is a diagnostic tool, and sometimes a repair tool if the problem is electronic in nature. I have found that one of the values of XENTRY is that it includes step-by-step diagnostic procedures. It can't replace broken parts. And it's not intended to be a programming tool. But it is the standard that other scan tools are measured by.

With the BenzNinja Club you get a full suite of tools including dealer-level diagnostic tools, engineering tools, manuals, and parts catalog. All of the tools @BenzNinja will use to try to diagnose and repair any non-physical problems. And these are all applications that run natively under Windows and don't require kludgy VMs.

Beyond that, there are customizations available from BenzNinja, such as ILS activation, brake light flashing, AMG menus, enabling transmission modes, disabling ECO Start/Stop, etc. Of course, some of these things can be done with some third-party scanners, but not all. And, if you don't know what you are doing, you can easily brick a controller.

Lastly, BenzNinja is now a full-time banner advertiser on MBWorld forums.

Hope this answers some of your questions.

 

As the owner of five MB cars...if I was in the the club, I pay more for membership for five cars than just one then, right? But, can I have all my buddies meet me at the mall and use the membership for their cars too?

 

Old man, you buy one membership, all cars covered for life, and new cars covered, your friends and familys cars covered. At least that's how I understood it, someone correct me if I'm wrong.
It's worth it, imo. And you don't need him to play btw. You have all the software to do whatever you want, but he's there for when you're out of your depth. That may be right away, or whenever, but he's there.
You need a laptop, with Windows for him to load the software on. I suggest a new or newer laptop so years from now when you need it, it'll still work. You also need hardware to talk to the car, which I think I spent $400 on? So yes, it's adds up a bit, but compared to how much you'd spend at the dealer for misc bs, it's cheap. Plus consider things like towing to the dealer if the car won't run. Everyone thinks it's well worth it, which is what pushed me over the edge to try, and I don't regret it.

Red; yes, I bought in maybe three years ago? He's great, and the software is great, but you can't fix what you can't see and the onboard diagnostics leave a lot to be desired imo.
My first issue with my current car was was maybe two months into buying it, so off to an early start down the problem rabbit hole. This was a power issue, going from 400+hp to maybe 250, and nobody, ninja or the dealer could fix it because Xentry says nothing is wrong. If Xentry says it's good, the dealer is done, it's fixed, the end. Ninja can't do much more remotely, but he did reload the ECU once, which changed nothing. I redneck fixed it, but never found the actual problem. Since then the Keyless-Go died and Xentry says it's good, so what can a guy do? I have also collected a variety of codes that I cannot fix because nothing is actually wrong so nothing to fix.
My CLK had P0400, if I recall correctly, but the EGR worked perfectly. There is no EGR sensor so it was guessing, and guessing wrong. I couldn't figure it out so I took it to the dealer. They gave up and returned the car, which I drove dirty for maybe four or so years.
ML320 would die when put in gear, until warmed up. Dealer gave up and returned the car. I redneck fixed it but never found the problem.
ML55, again, misc issues which I can't remember, but I do recall the dealer sending it back, not fixed.
I had an older E class, but I forget what it's deal was, and sold as a parts car.
My E350 had a variety of issues, and classic CEL preventing smog cert. I've since forgotten because I started hating the car and lost interest. I traded it in with all it's issues.

If I were to brick an ecu I could probably fix it in a few minutes. If not, I have a spare in the trunk ready to go :p
You mentioned flashing brake lights, so I have to comment how much I HATE those F-ing things. Everyone once in a while I see some A-hole with that and it's so incredibly annoying I want to run the car off the road. All I can think of is that is one car in a sea of cars, and it's that annoying, what would it look like if everyone did that? Imo it should outlawed. When I become dictator it will be on my list Vote for me!

 

https://benzninja.com/get-benzninja/

 

One membership for all the Mercedes you own now or ever will own. You can do whatever you want with your buddies. You're getting a service with the Club. The software is secondary and only needed so @BenzNinja can fix, update, configure, or modify your car.

 

Definitely interested in your "redneck" fixes. That would be interesting.

The flashing brake lights are an existing factory function that just needs to be enabled. You could probably do it with something like the LAUNCH Creader, but I don't know if more than one module needs to be changed. So, that's why I had him do it for me. On Mercedes, they only flash when going above 35 mph and coming to a sudden stop -- borderline the ABS activating. They do not flash with normal driving and stopping.

You're right that if every car had flashing brake lights every time someone touched their brake pedal it would lose its effectiveness, not to mention the potential for causing an epilepsy event in some people.

 

Red; misc redneck fixes would include tuning my E550 to force it to make the power it lost. I bought a tune, but with the problem it still made less power than stock. So I had to bump it up a lot to make run like I want.
A smog fix for my car, thanks to error codes and CEL, is loading the ecu data from three years ago before it started collecting error codes. Nothing that actually affects smog, but the default rule is any CEL is a fail. So I load the old file, which is clean, and drive straight to the smog station before it goes south. If I had that option on my older cars, like the CLK, I would've been able to smog it. Instead I drove it for about 4 years unregistered.
The ML 350 fix was feeding the intake with hot air from the ex manifold. Whatever the reason, air temp was the problem and that was the fix.
I recall a few things with the ML55, but I can't remember the fixes since it's been too long. Left front brake, the shifter electronics and some electronic issue with the big black box by the brake booster.
Then a ton of redneck fixes on non-MB cars since I was 16. My truck is about 80% by weight rednecked, meaning about 20% is oem. It has Toyota, Chevy, Ford and Mopar parts, plus a bunch is aftermarket and a bunch I made myself.

My next redneck fix is manual thermostat heater control because my "new" stat runs ~15F hotter and it's super annoying imo. I don't think it's hotter than stock, I think the oem unit ran 15F cooler, for whatever reason. The control for it is in the ecu somewhere, but apparently nobody knows where, so that means I'll go manual control. Rather than cut the wire to the heater, I ordered a new plug for it. Eta inna week or so. Then I should be able to dial it in to a set #F I want and it should also stop the temp fluctuating all over the place. It's that or I make an old school stat fit in there, which is on the table but it's more work.

From what I've read, my brake lights don't flash, ever, but it will trigger the hazard lights if you brake hard enough from xx speed to zero? I think it was >35 to 0? I've never triggered it, but I rarely brake hard all the way to a stop, which I think is a prerequisite? I'll try to remember to see if I can trigger it next week. Hopefully it's broke, or I can disable it. I hate features like that.

 

You do need to be going faster than 35 mph and stop suddenly, you know, where you spill your coffee and things slide off the front seat. I was able to verify mine do flash one night by adjusting my external mirror toward the ground and hitting the brakes. No one was behind me.

 

I believe it is called adaptive brake lights?