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Driving
Changing gear in Tiptronic mode*
Fig. 244
Lever in the Tiptronic position
Fig. 245
Steering wheel: automatic transmis-
sion l
e
v
ers
Tiptronic gives the driver the option to
change gears manually.
When you change t
o the T
iptr
onic pr
o-
gr
amme, 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
It is possible to change to Tiptronic mode,
both when the vehicle is stopped and while
driving.
●
Starting from the D/S position, move the
lever to the right. The instrument panel will
show whether the lever is in manual or Tip-
tronic mode (e.g. M4).
●
Push the lever forwards
+
or backwards
–
to move up or down a gear
›
›
›
Fig. 2
44
.
●
To exit Tiptronic mode, move the lever to the
left.
Using Tiptronic with the steering wheel
paddles*
The gearshift paddles can be used when the
selector lever is in the D/S or M (Tiptronic)
positions.
●
Press the gearshift paddle
+
to select a
higher gear
›
›
›
Fig. 2
45
.
●
Press the gearshift paddle
–
to select a
l
o
w
er gear
.
●
T
o exit the Tiptronic mode, pull the right-
hand lever towards the steering wheel for ap-
proximately 1 second or move the lever to the
left.
If the paddles are not operated for some time
and the lever is not in the Tiptronic selection
position, it will automatically exit from Tip-
tronic mode.
CAUTION
●
When accelerating, if a higher gear is not
selected, it will aut
omatically change
shortly before reaching the maximum per-
mitted RPM.
●
Also, if a lower gear is selected, the sys-
tem will not change until it detects that the
engine will not reach its maximum RPM.
Driving with an automatic gearbox
The gearbox changes gear ratios automati-
cally as the v
ehicl
e mo
v
es.
The engine can only st
art with the selector
lever in position P or N. At low temperatures,
below -10 °C (+14 °F), the engine can only
start with the selector lever in position P.
Driving down hills
Under certain circumstances it may be ad-
vantageous to use the Tiptronic mode to se-
lect the gear manually according to driving
conditions
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