Mercedes-Benz

Notes on the rear seats

Your vehicle may be equipped with the following bench seats in the rear compartment:

Standard rear bench seat
Comfort rear bench seat
Seat/bunk combination

Bench seat anchorage

WARNING Risk of accident and injury as a result of rear bench seat not being engaged

If the rear bench seat is not engaged, it may be flung around during travel.

Always make sure that the rear bench seat is engaged as described.

Keep the seat anchorages in the vehicle floor free of dirt and objects at all times to ensure that the seat engages securely.

If the indicator tab of the seat anchorages is not retracted into the seat leg, the seat is not correctly engaged. Engage the seat again.

Example: seat rail system with quick-locking mechanism

Guide rails

of the seat rail system can be used for the following purposes:

For mounting up to two rear bench seats in two rows
For mounting both rear seat rows facing one another
For moving the rear bench seats

Vehicles with seat rail systems: When you remove a rear bench seat, the seat slider may slide into a guide rail. The seat sliders will then no longer be parallel in the guide rails. In this case, you will no longer be able to fit the rear bench seat. The seat sliders must be moved only using a special tool or at a qualified specialist workshop in order to prevent the risk of damage. The tool is available as a Mercedes-Benz accessory.

Seat anchorages with quick-locking mechanism (example: three seat anchorages per row of rear seats)

You can secure rear bench seats in seat anchorages . If your vehicle is equipped with four seat anchorages on the first rear seat row, the rear bench seats can be mounted facing one another.

Seating variants

WARNING Risk of injury due to incorrect installation of the rear bench seats

Incorrect installation of the rear bench seats means that the integrated safety precautions in the rear bench seats cannot protect as they are designed to do.

Install the rear bench seats only as described.

Use only rear bench seats approved for your vehicle.

Depending on the type of seat anchorage in the vehicle floor, you can install the following seating variants:

Rear bench seats with two or three seats
Seat/bunk combination with three seats

Depending on the vehicle equipment, you can fit the rear bench seats on the first and/or second rear seat row.

The seating variants shown are permitted only if the conditions specified below for safe rear seating are met. Other seating variants are not permitted and may endanger the occupants.

Seating variants facing in the direction of travel

Seating variants in the face-to-face position

Easy entry and exit feature – EASY-ENTRY

S/L

Seat/bunk combination

Bed extension

If a rear bench seat is marked with EE in the illustrations, a rear bench seat must be fitted with the EASY-ENTRY easy entry and exit feature in the position indicated.

If a rear bench seat is not marked, a rear bench seat can be fitted with or without the EASY-ENTRY feature in the position indicated.

Please observe the following conditions for safe rear seating:

Use only rear bench seats approved for the vehicle.
A rear bench seat with three seats without the EASY-ENTRY feature may be fitted only if there is no other rear seat row behind it.
A rear bench seat may be fitted facing the rear only if each seat has a seat opposite it – face-to-face position.
Vehicles with individual seat anchorages in the vehicle floor:
- Either only standard bench seats or only comfort bench seats may be fitted. Mixed fitting is not permitted.
- Passengers may use the seats only if the rear seat and/or rear bench seat has engaged correctly More.
Vehicles with a seat rail system in the vehicle floor:
- Either only comfort rear bench seats or only the seat/bunk combination (S/L) may be fitted. Mixed fitting is not permitted.
- Passengers may use the seats only if the rear seat and/or rear bench seat has engaged correctly More.