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  • E-Class
  • Estate
  • 03/2020
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Setting the vehicle level
WARNING Risk of accident because vehicle level is too high

Driving characteristics may be impaired.

The vehicle can drift outwards, for example, when steering or cornering.

Choose a vehicle level which is suited to the driving style and the road surface conditions.
WARNING Risk of entrapment from vehicle lowering

When lowering the vehicle, other people could become trapped if their limbs are between the vehicle body and the tyres or underneath the vehicle.

Make sure no one is underneath the vehicle or in the immediate vicinity of the wheel arches when the vehicle is being lowered.
WARNING Risk of becoming trapped due to the vehicle lowering

Vehicles with AIR BODY CONTROL or level control system: when you unload luggage or leave the vehicle, the vehicle first rises slightly and then returns to the set level shortly afterwards.

You or anyone else in the vicinity of the wheel arches or the underbody could thus become trapped.

The vehicle can also be lowered after being locked.

When leaving the vehicle, make sure that nobody is in the vicinity of the wheel arches or the underbody.
NOTE Damage due to vehicle lowering

Parts of the body could be damaged when the vehicle is lowered.

Make sure that there are no obstacles such as kerbs underneath or in the immediate vicinity of the body when the vehicle is being lowered.
Requirements:

  • The vehicle has been started.

  • All vehicles except All-Terrain vehicles: the vehicle must not be moving faster than 60 km/h.

  • All-Terrain vehicles: the vehicle must not be moving faster than 35 km/h.

Raising the vehicle
Press button .

Indicator lamp lights up.

The vehicle is set to the high level.

Your selection is saved.

In the drive program, the vehicle cannot be raised further by using button .

The vehicle is lowered again in the following situations:

  • All vehicles except All-Terrain vehicles: when driving faster than 80 km/h.

  • All vehicles except All-Terrain vehicles: when driving between 60 km/h and 80 km/h for approximately three minutes.

  • All-Terrain vehicles: when driving faster than 35 km/h.

  • After changing a drive program using the DYNAMIC SELECT switch.

The vehicle is adjusted to the height of the last active drive program.

Lowering the vehicle
Press button .

Indicator lamp goes out. The vehicle is adjusted to the height of the active drive program.

Operation with a trailer or bicycle rack

Requirements:

  • The electrical connection to the trailer or bicycle rack is established correctly.

All vehicles except All-Terrain vehicles:

  • Up to approximately 30 km/h: the high level can be selected regardless of the drive program.

  • From approx. 30 km/h: the vehicle is adjusted to normal level, regardless of drive program.

All-Terrain vehicles:

  • Up to approximately 35 km/h: the high level can be selected regardless of the drive program.

  • From approximately 35 km/h: the vehicle is set to the normal level regardless of the drive program.

  • Below approximately 20 km/h in the drive program, the vehicle is raised back up to the high level.

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