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Vehicle features and options

Low beams.

This chapter describes all standard, country-spe‐

cific and optional features offered with the series.

It also describes features and functions that are

not necessarily available in your vehicle, e.g., due

to the selected options or country versions. This

also applies to safety-related functions and sys‐

tems. When using these functions and systems,

the applicable laws and regulations must be ob‐

served.

Instrument lighting.

Parking lights, low beams and

roadside parking lights

Overview

General information

Position of switch:

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Switches in the vehicle

If the driver's door is opened when standby state

is switched off, the exterior lighting is automati‐

cally switched off.

Parking lights

Position of switch:

The vehicle is illuminated on all sides.

Do not use the parking lights for extended peri‐

ods; otherwise, they might drain the battery and

it would then be impossible to switch on drive-

ready state.

The light switch element is located next to the

steering wheel.

When parking, switch on the one-sided roadside

parking light, refer to page 125.

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Function

Automatic headlight control.

Cornering light.

Low beams

Position of switch:

The low beams illuminate when standby state is

switched on.

Lights off.

Daytime running lights.

Roadside parking light

Parking lights.

Concept

The vehicle can be illuminated on one side.

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Switching on

Pathway lighting

General information

The low beams stay lit for a short while if the

headlight flasher is switched on after the radio-

ready state is switched off.

Setting the duration

Via iDrive:

1. "My Vehicle"

With standby state switched off, press the lever

either up or down past the resistance point for

approx. 2 seconds.

2. "Vehicle settings"

3. "Lighting"

4. "Exterior lighting"

5. "Pathway lighting"

6. Set length of time.

Switching off

Briefly press the lever to the resistance point in

the opposite direction.

The setting is stored for the driver profile cur‐

rently used.

Welcome lights and pathway

lighting

Automatic headlight control

Concept

Welcome lights

The low beams are switched on and off automat‐

ically depending on the ambient brightness, for

example in tunnels, in twilight or if there is pre‐

cipitation.

General information

Depending on the vehicle equipment and the

ambient brightness, individual light functions may

be switched on briefly when the vehicle is un‐

locked.

General information

A blue sky with the sun low on the horizon can

cause the lights to be switched on.

Activating/deactivating

Position of switch:

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Activating

Via iDrive:

Position of switch:

1. "My Vehicle"

The indicator light in the instrument cluster is il‐

luminated when the low beams are switched on.

2. "Vehicle settings"

3. "Lighting"

4. "Exterior lighting"

5. "Welcome lights"

System limits

The automatic headlight control cannot serve as

a substitute for your personal judgment of light‐

ing conditions.

The setting is stored for the driver profile cur‐

rently used.

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For example, the sensors are unable to detect

fog or hazy weather. In these situations, switch

the lights on manually.

When driving in reverse, the cornering lights may

be automatically switched on regardless of the

steering angle.

Daytime running lights

Adaptive headlight range

control

General information

The adaptive headlight range control feature bal‐

ances out acceleration and braking processes as

well as the vehicle load conditions in order to

avoid dazzling oncoming traffic. Illumination of

the road is optimized.

Position of switch:

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The daytime running lights light up when

standby state is switched on. After standby state

is switched off, the parking lights light up in posi‐

tion

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Activating/deactivating

In some countries, daytime running lights are

mandatory, so it may not be possible to deacti‐

vate the daytime running lights.

High-beam Assistant

Concept

The high-beam Assistant detects other traffic

participants early on and automatically switches

the high beams on or off depending on the traffic

situation.

Via iDrive:

1. "My Vehicle"

2. "Vehicle settings"

3. "Lighting"

General information

4. "Exterior lighting"

The high-beam Assistant ensures that the high

beams are switched on, whenever the traffic sit‐

uation allows. In the low speed range, the high

beams are not switched on by the system.

5. Select the desired setting.

Settings are stored for the profile currently used.

The system responds to light from oncoming

traffic and traffic driving ahead of you, and to am‐

bient lighting, for instance in towns and cities.

Cornering light

General information

Position of switch:

The high beams can be switched on and off

manually at any time.

In tight curves, for instance on mountainous

roads or when turning, an additional, cornering

light is switched on that lights up the inside of

the curve when the vehicle is moving below a

certain speed.

The cornering light is automatically switched on

depending on the steering angle or, where appli‐

cable, the use of turn signals.

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wagons; when driving close to train or ship

traffic; and at animal crossings.

Activating/deactivating

▷ In tight curves, on hilltops or in depressions,

in crossing traffic or half-obscured oncoming

traffic on highways.

▷ In poorly-lit towns and cities and in the pres‐

ence of highly reflective signs.

▷ When the windshield in front of the interior

mirror is fogged over, dirty or covered with

stickers, etc.

Position of switch, depending on the vehicle

equipment:

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Instrument lighting

Press the button on the turn signal lever.

The indicator light in the instrument clus‐

ter is illuminated when the low beams are

switched on.

Functional requirement

The parking lights or low beams must be

switched on to set the brightness.

The headlights are automatically switched be‐

tween low beams and high beams.

Adjusting

Adjust the brightness with the

thumbwheel.

The blue indicator light in the instrument

cluster lights up when the system

switches on the high beams.

The high-beam Assistant is deactivated when

manually switching the high beams on and off,

refer to page 105.

Interior lights

To reactivate the high-beam Assistant, press the

button on the turn signal lever.

General information

Depending on the equipment, the interior lights,

footwell lights, entry lights, and courtesy lights

are controlled automatically.

System limits

The high-beam Assistant cannot serve as a sub‐

stitute for the driver's personal judgment of when

to use the high beams. In situation that require

this, therefore switch off manually.

The thumbwheel for the instrument lighting con‐

trols brightness of some of these features.

The system is not fully functional in the following

situations, and driver intervention may be neces‐

sary:

▷ In very unfavorable weather conditions, such

as fog or heavy precipitation.

▷ When detecting poorly-lit road users such as

pedestrians, cyclists, horseback riders and

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To deactivate the ambient light: "Off".

Overview

With a color scheme selected and welcome

lights activated they illuminate in blue when vehi‐

cle is unlocked.

Setting the brightness

Depending on the equipment, the brightness of

the ambient light can be adjusted via the thumb‐

wheel for the instrument lighting or on the Con‐

trol Display.

Via iDrive:

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2

Interior lights

Reading lights

1. "My Vehicle"

2. "Vehicle settings"

3. "Lighting"

Switching the interior lights on/off

4. "Interior lighting"

5. "Brightness"

Press the button.

To switch off permanently: press the button and

hold for approx. 3 seconds.

6. Adjust the brightness.

Switching the reading lights on/off

Press the button.

Reading lights are located in the front next to the

interior light.

Ambient light

General information

Depending on the equipment version, lighting

can be adjusted for some lights in the car's inte‐

rior.

Selecting the color scheme

Via iDrive:

1. "My Vehicle"

2. "Vehicle settings"

3. "Lighting"

4. "Interior lighting"

5. "Ambient lighting"

6. Select the desired setting.

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