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Function
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
.
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:
1
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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