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Vehicle features and

options

Parking lights.

This chapter describes all standard, country-spe‐

cific and optional features offered with the series.

It also describes features that are not necessarily

available in your vehicle, for instance, due to the

selected options or country versions. This also

applies to safety-related functions and systems.

When using these functions and systems, the

applicable laws and regulations must be ob‐

served.

Low beams.

Instrument lighting.

Parking lights, low beams

and roadside parking lights

Overview

General information

Switches in the vehicle

Position of switch:

If the driver's door is opened when the ignition is

switched off, the exterior lighting is automatically

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 start the engine.

The light switch element is located next to the

steering wheel.

Canada: when parking, switch on the one-sided

roadside parking light, refer to page 136.

Symbol

Function

Front fog lights.

Low beams

Position of switch:

Automatic headlight control.

Cornering light.

The low beams light up when the ignition is

switched on.

Lights off.

Daytime running lights.

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3. "Lighting"

Canada: roadside parking light

4. "Exterior lighting"

5. "Welcome lights"

Concept

The vehicle can be illuminated on one side.

The setting is stored for the driver profile cur‐

rently used.

Switching on

Headlight courtesy delay feature

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:

With radio-ready state switched off, press the

lever either up or down past the resistance point

for approx. 2 seconds.

1. "My Vehicle"

2. "Vehicle settings"

3. "Lighting"

Switching off

Briefly press the lever to the resistance point in

the opposite direction.

4. "Exterior lighting"

5. "Pathway lighting"

6. Set length of time.

The setting is stored for the driver profile cur‐

rently used.

Welcome lights and

headlight courtesy delay

feature

Automatic headlight

control

Welcome lights

Concept

General information

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.

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:

Via iDrive:

The low beams always stay on when the fog light

is switched on.

1. "My Vehicle"

2. "Vehicle settings"

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Activating

Position of switch:

Adaptive headlight range

control

The indicator light in the instrument cluster is il‐

luminated when the low beams are switched on.

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.

System limits

The automatic headlight control cannot serve as

a substitute for your personal judgment of light‐

ing conditions.

For example, the sensors are unable to detect

fog or hazy weather. In these situations, switch

the lights on manually.

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.

Daytime running lights

General information

Position of switch:

General information

The daytime running lights light up when the ig‐

nition is switched on. After the ignition is

switched off, the parking lights light up in posi‐

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.

tion

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

The high beams can be switched on and off

manually at any time.

General information

Position of switch:

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.

Activating/deactivating

The cornering light is automatically switched on

depending on the steering angle or, where appli‐

cable, the use of turn signals.

When driving in reverse, the cornering lights may

be automatically switched on regardless of the

steering angle.

Position of switch, depending on the vehicle

equipment:

Press the button on the turn signal lever.

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The indicator light in the instrument clus‐

ter is illuminated when the low beams are

switched on.

Fog lights

Front fog lights

The headlights are automatically switched be‐

tween low beams and high beams.

Concept

The blue indicator light in the instrument

cluster lights up when the system

switches on the high beams.

The front fog lights work alongside the low

beams to illuminate a wider area of the roadway.

Functional requirement

The low beams must be switched on before

switching on the front fog lights.

The high-beam Assistant is deactivated when

manually switching the high beams on and off,

refer to page 104.

To reactivate the high-beam Assistant, press the

button on the turn signal lever.

Switching on/off

Press the button.

System limits

The green indicator light lights up if the

front fog lights are switched on.

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.

If the automatic headlight control, refer to

page 136, is activated, the low beams will come

on automatically when you switch on the front

fog lights.

The system is not fully functional in the following

situations, and driver intervention may be neces‐

sary:

When the high beams or headlight flasher are

activated, the front fog lights are not switched

on.

▷ In very unfavorable weather conditions, such

as fog or heavy precipitation.

▷ When detecting poorly-lit road users such as

pedestrians, cyclists, horseback riders and

wagons; when driving close to train or ship

traffic; and at animal crossings.

Instrument lighting

Functional requirement

The parking lights or low beams must be

switched on to adjust the brightness.

▷ 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.

Adjusting

Adjust the brightness with the

thumbwheel.

▷ When the windshield in front of the interior

mirror is fogged over, dirty or covered with

stickers, etc.

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Ambient light

Interior lights

General information

Depending on the equipment, the interior lights,

footwell lights, entry lights, and courtesy lights

are controlled automatically.

Depending on the equipment version, lighting

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

rior.

The thumbwheel for the instrument lighting con‐

trols brightness of some of these features.

Selecting the color scheme

Via iDrive:

1. "My Vehicle"

Overview

2. "Vehicle settings"

3. "Lighting"

4. "Interior lighting"

5. "Lighting design"

6. Select the desired setting.

To deactivate the ambient light: "Off".

Setting the brightness

Interior lights

Via iDrive:

Reading lights

1. "My Vehicle"

2. "Vehicle settings"

3. "Lighting"

Switching the interior lights

on/off

4. "Interior lighting"

5. "Brightness"

Press the button.

6. Adjust the brightness.

To switch off permanently: press the button and

hold for approx. 3 seconds.

Switching the reading lights

on/off

Press the button.

Depending on the vehicle equipment, the read‐

ing lights are located next to the interior lights in

the front and rear.

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