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Activating the start-off assist
&
WARNING Risk of skidding and having
an accident from wheels spinning
When you use start-off assist, individual
wheels could spin and you could lose control
of the vehicle.
If ESP
®
is deactivated, there is a risk of skid‐
ding and accident!
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Make sure that no persons or obstacles
are in the close vicinity of your vehicle.
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Deactivate ESP
®
(/ page 160).
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Move the steering wheel to the straight-
ahead position.
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Depress the brake pedal firmly with your left
foot and keep it depressed.
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Engage the h drive position
(/ page 141).
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Select the sportiest available drive program
B or C(/ page 138).
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Rapidly depress the accelerator pedal fully.
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Take your foot off the brake, but keep the
accelerator pedal depressed.
The vehicle pulls away at maximum accelera‐
tion.
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Switch on ESP
®
once the acceleration proce‐
dure is complete. ESP
®
will otherwise not be
able to stabilize the vehicle if the vehicle
starts to skid or a wheel starts to spin.
Canceling the start-off assist
#
Remove your foot from the acceler ator pedal.
#
Reactivate the ESP
®
.
Function of adaptive damping adjustment
Suspension with adaptive damping adjustment
continuously adjusts the characteristics of the
suspension dampers to the current operating
and driving conditions.
The damping is tuned individually for each wheel
and is affected by the following factors:
R
The road surface conditions
R
Vehicle load
R
The drive program selected
R
The driving style
The drive program can be adjusted using the
DYNAMIC SELECT switch.
Parking Assist PARKTRONIC
Function of Parking Assist PARKTRONIC
Parking Assist PARKTRONIC is an electronic
parking assistance system with ultrasound. It
monitors the area around your vehicle using six
sensors
1 in the front bumper and six sensors
in the rear bumper. Parking Assist PARKTRONIC
shows you the distance between your vehicle
and a detected obstacle visually and audibly.
Driving and parking
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