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72 Safety and SecurityDriving safety systemsESP
®
The Electronic Stability Program (ESP
®) is
operational as soon as the engine is run-
ning and monitors the vehicle’s traction
(force of adhesive friction between the
tires and the road surface) and handling.
The ESP
® recognizes when a wheel is spin-
ning or if the vehicle starts to skid. By ap-
plying brakes to the appropriate wheel and
by limiting the engine output, the ESP
® works to stabilize the vehicle. The ESP
® is
especially useful while driving off and on
wet or slippery road surfaces. The ESP®
also stabilizes the vehicle during braking
maneuvers.
The ESP
® warning lamp v in the instru-
ment cluster flashes when the ESP
® is en-
gaged.
The ESP
® warning lamp v in the instru-
ment cluster comes on when you switch on
the ignition (
page 315). It goes out when
the engine is running.
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When the EBP is malfunctioning, the ABS,
BAS, BAS Plus*, ESP
® and ETS are also
switched off.
If the EBP is malfunctioning, the brake sys-
tem will still function with full brake boost.
However, the rear wheels could lock up dur-
ing emergency braking situations, for exam-
ple. You could lose control of the vehicle and
cause an accident. Adapt your driving style
to the changed driving characteristics.
Warning!
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Never switch off the ESP
® when you see the
ESP
® warning lamp v flashing in the in-
strument cluster. In this case proceed as fol-
lows:


While driving off, apply as little throttle
as possible.


While driving ease up on the accelera-
tor.


Adapt your speed and driving style to
the prevailing road conditions.
Failure to observe these guidelines could
cause the vehicle to skid.
The ESP
® cannot prevent accidents result-
ing from excessive speed.
Warning!
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The ESP
® cannot prevent the natural laws of
physics from acting on the vehicle, nor can
it increase the traction afforded. The ESP
®
cannot prevent accidents, including those
resulting from excessive speed in turns, or
hydroplaning. Only a safe, attentive, and
skillful driver can prevent accidents. The ca-
pabilities of an ESP
® equipped vehicle must
never be exploited in a reckless or danger-
ous manner which could jeopardize the us-
er’s safety or the safety of others.
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DISTRONIC Plus* is switched off when the
ESP® engages.

89 Control systems
COMAND introduction
Main menus of COMAND
Sound
Muting: Press the F shortcut but-
ton in the center console (
page 80).
The sound of the current audio source
is switched on or is muted.Switching off navigation announce-
ments entirely

Canceling navigation message:
Briefly press F shortcut button dur-
ing an announcement.

Switching off navigation messages:
Press and hold F during an an-
nouncement until the announcement is
switched off.
You will see the message “The driving
instructions have been muted.” for a
short while.Adjusting volume
1Thumbwheel

Adjusting: Turn, thumbwheel.
The volume of the currently selected
audio source changes.
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The components and operating principles of
COMAND can be found on (
page 79).
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When the sound is muted, you will see the
symbol
F
in the status line. When you
change the audio source, the sound is automati-
cally switched on. You will be able to hear an-
nouncements from the navigation system even
when the sound is muted.
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The announcements remain switched off
even if you start a new route guidance or if
COMAND is switched off/on with theo but-
ton.
If you switch COMAND off by removing the
SmartKey from the starter switch and then
switch the ignition back on after more than
3 minutes, the announcements are automatical-
ly switched back on.

123 Control systems
COMAND telephone*
Displaying details of a list entry
COMAND can also show a shortened list
entry in its entirety.
Select list entry (
page 122).

Slide omp and select “Options”

“Details”.
The detailed view appears.

Closing detailed view: Slide qmr or
omp or press n.
Saving a list entry in the address bookSaving as a new entry in the COMAND
address book

Slide omp or rotate ymz and select
list entry (
page 122).

Select “Options”
“Save”
“New En-
try”.

Select a number category, e.g. “Home”.

Select a telephone category, e.g. “Land
Line”.

Select “Save”.
The input menu appears with the data
fields. The data field for the telephone
number is filled in automatically. The
data field for the last name is also filled
in automatically if the entry to be saved
contains a name.

If you would like to save the entry
now: Select ?.1Data field
2Input mark (cursor)
3Input characters

If you want to change the available
characters: Proceed as described in
the “Changing data field” paragraph in
the “Assigning a New Entry in the Ad-
dress Book” section (
page 133).
Adding to an existing entry in the
COMAND address book

Slide omp or rotate ymz and select
list entry (
page 122).

Select “Options”
“Save”
“Add”.
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List entries that show a telephone number
are neither saved in the COMAND address book,
nor in the phone book on the mobile phone. You
can save such entries in the COMAND address
book. You can also save list entries in the
COMAND address book which have already been
saved in the phone book on the mobile phone.
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“Save” does not function if the selected list
entry is already saved in the COMAND address
book.

132 Control systemsCOMAND telephone*
Changing smart speller character
set: Select #.
Depending on the previous setting, you
will change to letters with special char-
acters or to numbers with special char-
acters.

Entering characters: Select the char-
acters of the entry you are searching
for one by one.

Deleting individual characters: Se-
lect ) and briefly press n.
Each time you enter or delete a charac-
ter, the closest match will be displayed
at the top of the list.

Deleting an entire entry: Select )
and press and hold n until the entry is
deleted.

Canceling search: Switch from the
smart speller to the list.
The entry at the top of the list is auto-
matically highlighted.Selecting using the list

If necessary, switch from the smart
speller to the list.

Rotate ymz or slide qmr until the de-
sired entry is highlighted.
Selecting subentries

Select an entry with the + symbol and
press n.
The + symbol changes to / and the
subentries are displayed.

Rotate ymz or slide qmr until the de-
sired subentry is highlighted.
Displaying details of an entry
COMAND can also show a shortened entry
in its entirety. For entries featuring suben-
tries, the detailed view is only available for
the subentries and not for the main entry.

Select entry (
page 131).

Select “Options”
“Details”.
The detailed view appears.

Closing detailed view: Slide qmr or
omp or press n or back button L
in the center console (
page 80).
Starting to dial the number of an entry

Select entry (
page 131).

Press n.
or

Press s on the telephone keypad.
A list appears if the entry contains sub-
entries.
Select desired subentry.

Press n again.
or

Press s on the telephone key-
pad.


173 Control systems
COMAND navigation system (entering a destination)
While the characters are being selected as
described below, the top list entry 1 al-
ways shows the destination which best
corresponds to the input data as it has
been entered up to that point.
At the same time, COMAND automatically
supplements characters 2 entered by the
user with appropriate characters 3.
Changing language for the input
characters: Select!.

Select desired language.

Changing character set for the input
characters: Select#.
Depending on the previous setting, you
will change to letters with special char-
acters or to numbers with special char-
acters.

Selecting characters: Slide omp or
rotate ymz.

Confirming character selection:
Press n.

Deleting individual characters:
Select) in the bottom line and
pressn.

Deleting an entire entry: Select) in
the bottom line and press n until the
entire entry is deleted.

Canceling an entry: Select “Back” in
the bottom line and press n.
or

Press back button L in the center
console (
page 80).
As soon as COMAND can clearly attribute
the characters entered to a destination,
the input characters 4 disappear.
You see the destination memory list with-
out input characters. Here you can confirm
the current entry or make another selec-
tion.
You can also manually switch to the desti-
nation memory list without input charac-
ters at any time.

Switching manually to the destina-
tion memory list without input char-
acters: Slide qm.
or

Select ? in the second line from the
bottom and press n.
Destination memory list without input
characters

Selecting a destination: Slide qmr or
rotate ymz.

Canceling selection: Press back but-
ton L in the center console
(page 80).
or


199 Control systems
COMAND navigation system (destination memory)
Using the address book entry as your
own address
If you want to assign your own ad-
dress for the first time:
Select “Assign Address Book Entry”.
or

If you want to change your own ad-
dress: Select “Change”
“Assign Ad-
dress Book Entry”.
In both cases, the menu appears for
searching for an address book entry.

Select desired address book entry. Pro-
ceed as described in the “Searching for
an address book entry” section
(page 204).
Once the address data is complete and
if it matches the digital map data,
COMAND saves the entry as your own
address in the destination memory.
If address data is still missing or if it
cannot be found on the digital map, a
message appears indicating that the
address is incomplete.

Closing message: Select “OK”.
Depending on which data is missing or
cannot be found on the digital map, you
must now either:


Select a state (USA) or province (CDN)


or enter a town/city


or enter a street


or enter a house number

Selecting a state (USA) or province
(CDN): Select desired state (USA) or
province (CDN) from the list.

Entering a town: Proceed as de-
scribed for destination entry in the “En-
tering a town or city” section
(page 159).

Entering a street: Proceed as de-
scribed for destination entry in the “En-
tering a street” section (
page 161).

Entering a house number: Proceed
as described for destination entry in
the “Entering a house number” section
(page 166).
If all data is available and matches the
digital map data, you can save the ad-
dress.

Saving: Select “Save”.
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In the address book entry, the town/city
and street must be spelled in the same way as
the destination entry so that the data matches
the digital map data.
In order for the state (USA) or province (CDN) to
match the map data, you may either enter the
entire name or the abbreviation in the address
book.
Examples:


Florida or FL


Colorado or CO


Alberta or AB


Ontario or ON

205 Control systems
COMAND address book
Entries with category symbol 3 come
from the mobile phone. The following cate-
gory symbols are possible:

= symbol for “Mobile” category


= symbol for “Home” category


= symbol for “Work” category


= symbol for “Fax” category


= symbol for “Pager” category


= symbol for “Main” category or for
unknown category or for phone entries
that are saved on the SIM card of a
GSM mobile phone
Entries without a category symbol or with
the or symbols come from the
COMAND address book. All other entries
come from the mobile phone and are only
visible when the mobile phone is in the cra-
dle*.
Entries with the symbol contain a voice
entry (page 210). It is possible to add
voice entries in vehicles with Voice Con-
trol*.Entries with the symbol contain com-
plete, navigable address data from the nav-
igation system that correspond to digital
map data. It is possible to quickly start
route guidance to these types of entry
(
page 209).
Switching from the smart speller to the
list

Slide mq repeatedly or press n until
the smart speller is hidden.
or

Select ?.
Switching from the list to the smart
speller

Select “Back” from the list.
Searching
Searching via the smart speller

Switch from the list to the smart speller
if necessary.

Changing smart speller language:
Select!.

Select desired language.

Changing smart speller character
set: Select#.
Depending on the previous setting, you
will change to letters with special char-
acters or to numbers with special char-
acters.

Entering characters: Select the char-
acters one by one of the entry you are
searching for.

Deleting individual characters:
Select) and briefly press n.
Each time you enter or delete a charac-
ter, the closest match will be displayed
at the top of the list.

Deleting an entire entry: Select)
and press and hold n until the entry is
deleted.


207 Control systems
COMAND address book
Selecting a different data field
Rotate ymz or slide qmr.
Displaying abbreviated content in full

Select “Options”
“Details”.
The display is shown in full.

Closing entire display: Slide qmr or
omp or pressn.
Closing the detailed view

Select “Back”.
Displaying of a complete phone book
entry in the mobile phone
Searching for the desired entry
Search for phone book entry in mobile
phone (
page 204).
or

Select a phone book entry from the
mobile phone using the COMAND
address book menu (
page 202).

Press n.
The detailed view appears.
1To go back to the previous menu
2Category symbol
3Display for phone book entry in mobile
phone
4To call up optionsClosing the detailed view

Select “Back”.
Changing an entry
Changing an address book entry 
Search for an address book entry
(page 204) then, select “Options”

“Change”.
or
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The mobile phone must be inserted in the
cradle*.
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If a phone book entry in the mobile phone
has more than one telephone number, you will
see all telephone numbers with the respective
category symbol 2 in the detailed view.
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The options available under “Options” menu
item 4 depend on which data field 3 is select-
ed. The following options may be available:


Changing a a phone book entry in the mobile
phone (
page 207)


Calling a number saved in an entry
((page 209)


Saving a phone book entry from mobile
phone in the address book (
page 212)
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You cannot change address book entries
that come from the phone book in the mobile
phone.


232 Control systemsCOMAND automatic climate control
Select climate control settings
Cen-
tral climate control menu.

Selecting “AC
OFF”: Slide qmr or
rotateymz.

Confirming selection: Press n.
A checkmark appears when the cooling
is switched off.
“AC
OFF” appears in the central menu of
the climate control settings.Selecting “Mono” mode
“Mono” is used to adjust the climate zones
for the entire vehicle at the same time.
When the “Mono” function is switched on
and you change the climate on the driver’s
side, these changes will be carried out in
the same manner for all climate zones.

Select climate control settings
Cen-
tral climate control menu.

Selecting “Mono”: Slide qmr or
rotateymz.

Confirming selection: Press n.
A checkmark appears when the func-
tion has been selected.

Exiting menu: Press back button L
in the center console (
page 80) or
slideomp.The “Mono” function is automatically
switched off when you:


change an automatic climate control
setting for the front passenger’s side
using COMAND


operate a button from the automatic
climate control for the front passen-
ger’s side


operate one of the buttons for the rear
climate control system.
Adjusting footwell temperature
The “Footwell Temperature” function is
used to adjust the temperature difference
between the footwell and the rest of the
passenger compartment.
The higher the selected value, the higher
the temperature in the footwell will be.

Select climate control settings
Cen-
tral climate control menu.
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If the air conditioning cannot be turned on
again, this indicates that the air conditioning is
losing refrigerant. The compressor has turned it-
self off.
Have the air conditioning checked at the nearest
authorized Mercedes-Benz Center.
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In automatic mode, this setting optimizes
the footwell temperature when outside tempera-
tures are low.

253 Control systems
Instrument cluster control system
Switching on the Dynamic Rear View
Monitor* automatically
Press ( or & to select the
“Assistance” menu.

Press % or $ to select the
“Rearview camera” function.

Press #.

Press # again if you would like to
change the current status.The following settings are available:
Service menu
The “Service” menu is used for

calling up messages


checking tire inflation pressure elec-
tronically with the Advanced TPMS*
(standard on U.S. vehicles)


activating Run Flat Indicator
(Canada only)


calling up the maintenance service in-
dicator display


check engine oil level*Calling up vehicle malfunction, warning
and system status messages stored in
memory
Use the vehicle status message memory
menu to scan malfunction and warning
messages that may be stored in the sys-
tem. Such messages appear in the multi-
function display and are based on
conditions or system status the vehicle’s
system has recorded.
The vehicle status message memory menu
only appears if there are any messages
stored.
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The image from the Dynamic Rear View
Monitor is shown on the COMAND display.
“On when in
Reverse”
The Dynamic Rear View
Monitor automatically
switches on when reverse
gear is engaged.
“OFF”
The Dynamic Rear View
Monitor is not switched on.
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The menu overview can be found on
(
page 243).
Warning!
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Malfunction and warning messages are only
indicated for certain systems and are inten-
tionally not very detailed. The malfunction
and warning messages are simply a remind-
er with respect to the operation of certain
systems and do not replace the owner’s
and/or driver’s responsibility to maintain
the vehicle’s operating safety by having all
required maintenance and safety checks