The Remote Parking Pilot parks the vehicle for you while you are outside your vehicle. Once you have selected a suitable parking space, you then exit the vehicle and guide it into the parking space using a suitable mobile phone. Remote Parking Pilot accelerates, brakes, steers the vehicle and changes gear. You can cancel the parking manoeuvre at any time using your mobile phone.
You can also use your mobile phone to move your vehicle backwards and forwards in the straight-ahead position (exploration mode). This is useful for example, if a garage is so narrow that it is difficult or impossible to get in and out of the vehicle after it has been parked. Parking Pilot automatically performs any minor steering corrections that are required.
Remote Parking Pilot is only an aid. It is not a substitute for your attention to the immediate surroundings. The responsibility for safe manoeuvring and parking remains with you. Make sure that no persons, animals or objects are in the manoeuvring range.
You switch off Parking Pilot.
You press a button on the key.
You move more than (3.0 m) away from the vehicle.
ESP® intervenes.
Further information on cancelling the function can be found in the operating instructions for the Remote Parking Pilot app.
For the Remote Parking Pilot function, you require a mobile phone and the Remote Parking Pilot app.
Android™
Apple® iOS
If the connection between the vehicle and the mobile phone is interrupted while a parking manoeuvre is being performed, the manoeuvre can be continued if the connection is re-established within two minutes.
Parking in a parking space parallel to the direction of travel.
Parking in a parking space at right angles to the direction of travel.
Parking in a garage (exploration mode).
If technical problems arise during a parking manoeuvre (e.g. the permitted downhill gradient is exceeded), the following actions are performed automatically:
The parking manoeuvre is cancelled.
The vehicle is brought to a standstill.
Transmission position
is engaged. The vehicle is switched off.
If the parking manoeuvre is cancelled, a corresponding message is displayed on the mobile phone. You can then take over and park the vehicle in the parking space yourself. Alternatively, you can move the vehicle back to its original position.
You can cancel a parking manoeuvre at any time and direct the vehicle back to its original position.
Whilst the vehicle is being parked with Parking Pilot, you can interrupt the process to take control of the vehicle with Remote Parking Pilot and manoeuvre it into its final position.
In the course of a parking manoeuvre, the direction of travel can be changed during one move. The system then re-calculates the entire vehicle path.
Once the parking manoeuvre has been completed, the system offers to make adjustments to the vehicle's final longitudinal direction. The availability of this function depends on the size of the parking space.
Further information can be found in the operating instructions for the Remote Parking Pilot app.
Snowfall or heavy rain may lead to a parking space being measured inaccurately. Parking spaces that are partially occupied by trailer drawbars might not be identified as such or be measured incorrectly. Only use Parking Pilot on level, high-grip ground. The parking space must be at least 2 ft (0.60 m) wider than the vehicle without the outside mirrors.
In extreme weather conditions such as ice or packed snow or in heavy rain.
If you are transporting a load that protrudes beyond the vehicle.
If you have installed snow chains.
If the parking space is on a downhill or uphill incline.
To enable the system to search for a parking space, the vehicle speed must not be more than 22 mph (35 km/h).
During the parking manoeuvre, you must not stand more than 10 ft (3.0 m) away from the vehicle. Otherwise, the procedure will be interrupted and a corresponding message will be displayed on the mobile phone. If you move closer to the vehicle, you will be able to continue the procedure.