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Driving 207
Safety First Operating instructions Practical tips Technical Data
Changing gears with Tiptronic*
The Tiptronic system allows you to manually change gears in vehicles with an
automatic gearbox. When you change to the Tiptronic programme, the
vehicle remains in the currently selected gear. This is possible as long as the
system is not changing gear automatically due to a traffic situation.
Using Tiptronic with the selector lever
x Press the selector lever from position D to the right into the Tiptronic
selector gate in “Automatic gearbox*: Selecting gears” on page 205.
x Press the lever forwards or backwards to move up or down a gear
fig. 141.
Using the Tiptronic with the steering wheel paddle shifts
x In D or S, move the steering wheel paddle shifts fig. 142.
x Pull the right-hand side paddle fig. 142 towards the steering
wheel to step up a gear.
x Pull the left-hand side paddle fig. 142 towards the steering wheel
step down a gear.
If the paddles are not used for a period of time, the vehicle leaves Tiptronic
mode.
Caution
x When accelerating, the gearbox automatically shifts up into the next gear
shortly before the maximum engine speed is reached.
x When reducing speed manually, the gear box only shifts gear when the
engine can no longer exceed the maximum engine speed.
Driving with an automatic gearbox
The gearbox changes gear ratios automatically as the vehicle moves.
Fig. 141 Selector lever in
Tiptronic position (left-
hand drive vehicles). The
lay-out in right-hand drive
vehicles is symmetrically
opposed.
Fig. 142 Steering wheel
with two paddle shifts for
Tiptronic.
A
+
A
–
+ OFF
–
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