auto hold MERCEDES-BENZ S600 2007 W221 Owner's Manual

Contents
Driving systems ................................. 380
Cruise control .............................. 380
DISTRONIC Plus* ......................... 385
Airmatic (S 550 only) ................... 401
Active Body Control (ABC)*.......... 403
Parktronic system* ...................... 405
Park Assist* ................................. 409
Dynamic Rear View Monitor* ....... 413
Night View Assist* ....................... 420
Automatic climate control ................. 424
Deactivating climate control
system ......................................... 428
Operating climate control system
in automatic mode ....................... 428
Setting temperature ..................... 429
Adjusting air volume .................... 429
Front defroster ............................. 429
Rear window defroster ................. 430
Maximum cooling MAXCOOL
(USA only) .................................... 430
Air recirculation mode .................. 431
Residual engine heat and
ventilation .................................... 433Front passenger compartment
adjustable air vents....................... 433
Rear passenger compartment
adjustable air vents....................... 434
Rear passenger compartment
climate control* ............................ 434
Trunk .................................................. 436
Opening trunk ............................... 436
Closing trunk ................................ 437
Trunk emergency release.............. 440
Power tilt/sliding sunroof................... 441
Opening and closing power
tilt/sliding sunroof ........................ 441
Synchronizing ............................... 442
Panorama roof with power
tilt/sliding panel* ............................... 443
Roller sunblinds ............................ 443
Opening and closing panorama
roof with power tilt/sliding panel.. 444
Synchronizing ............................... 446Loading and storing............................ 447
Roof rack* .................................... 447
Loading instructions ..................... 447
Storage compartments ................. 448
Cup holders .................................. 452
Trunk ............................................ 453
Useful features ................................... 455
Sun visors ..................................... 455
Vanity mirror in rear...................... 455
Rear window sunshade ................. 456
Ashtrays........................................ 456
Cigarette lighters .......................... 457
Power outlet ................................. 458
Telephone* ................................... 459
Tele Aid......................................... 462
Garage door opener ...................... 470
Infrared reflecting windshield ....... 475

32 At a glanceCenter consoleUpper part
Item
Page
1
Automatic climate control
panel, front
36
2
Alarm system indicator lamp
75
3
Cover of compartment with

CD changer


PCMCIA card slot
107
108
4
Cover of compartment with:

Ashtray


Lighter
456
457
5
Cup holder
452

47 Safety and Security
Occupant safety
Safety guidelines for the seat belt,
emergency tensioning device and
air bag
Warning!
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Accident research shows that the safest
place for children in an automobile is in the
rear seat.
It should be noted that with respect to both
front and rear side impact air bags there is a
possibility for a side impact air bag related
injury if occupants, especially children, are
not properly seated or restrained when next
to a side impact air bag which needs to de-
ploy rapidly in a side impact in order to do its
job.
To help avoid the possibility of injury, please
follow these guidelines:
(1) Always sit nearly upright, properly use
the seat belts and for children 12 years
old and under, use an appropriately
sized infant or toddler restraint or
booster seat recommended for the size
and weight of the child.
(2) Always wear seat belts properly.
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Air bags are designed to deploy only in cer-
tain frontal impacts (front air bags), and in side
impacts (side impact and head protection win-
dow curtain air bags) which exceed preset
thresholds, and in certain rollovers (head protec-
tion window curtain air bags). Only during these
events will they provide their supplemental pro-
tection.
The driver and passengers should always wear
their seat belts. Otherwise it is not possible for
air bags to provide their supplemental protec-
tion.
In case of other types of impacts and impacts be-
low air bag deployment thresholds, air bags will
not deploy. The driver and passenger will then be
protected to the extent possible by a properly
fastened seat belt. A properly fastened seat belt
is also needed to provide the best possible pro-
tection in a rollover.
We caution you not to rely on the presence of the
air bags in order to avoid wearing your seat belt.
It is important to your safety and that of your pas-
sengers that you replace deployed air bags and
repair any malfunctioning air bags to make sure
the vehicle will continue to provide supplemental
crash protection for occupants.
Warning!
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Damaged seat belts or belts that were
highly stressed in an accident must be
replaced and their anchoring points
must also be checked. Only use belts in-
stalled or supplied by an authorized
Mercedes-Benz Center.


Air bags and pyrotechnic emergency
tensioning devices (ETDs) are designed
to function on a one-time-only basis. An
air bag or ETD that is deployed must be
replaced. PRE-SAFE
® has electrically
operated reversible pre-tensioners in
addition to the pyrotechnic ETDs.


Do not pass belts over sharp edges.
They could tear.


Do not make any modification that could
change the effectiveness of the belts.


50 Safety and SecurityOccupant safetyseat belt fastened (latch plate properly in-
serted into buckle) the front passenger
side impact air bag will deploy regardless
of the empty seat.
The side impact air bags are not deployed
in impacts which do not exceed the sys-
tem’s deployment threshold.
Window curtain air bags
1Window curtain air bag
The side window curtain air bags are de-
ployed:

in impacts exceeding a preset deploy-
ment threshold


on the impacted side of the vehicle


independently of the front air bags


in certain vehicle rollovers
The side window curtain air bags are not
deployed in impacts which do not exceed
the system’s deployment threshold.
The window curtain air bags fill up the area
indicated by the arrows.
Occupant Classification System
The Occupant Classification System (OCS)
automatically turns the front passenger
front air bag on or off based on the classi-
fied occupant weight category determined
by weight sensor readings from the front
passenger seat.
Occupants must sit properly belted in a
nearly upright position with their back
against the seat backrest and feet on the floor to be correctly classified. If the occu-
pant’s weight is transferred to another
object in the vehicle (e.g. by leaning on
armrests), the OCS may not be able to
properly approximate the occupant’s
weight category.
Furthermore, the occupant weight may ap-
pear to increase or decrease due to
objects hanging on the seat, other passen-
gers pushing on the seat, objects lodged
underneath the seat or stuffed between
seat and middle console or between seat
and door or due to objects applying pres-
sure on the back of the seat. Always make
sure that the seat has clearance in all
directions at all times.i
The system does not deactivate the front
passenger side impact air bag, the window cur-
tain air bag and the emergency tensioning de-
vice.
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If your seat, including your trim cover and
cushion needs to be serviced in any way, take
the vehicle to your authorized Mercedes-Benz
Center.
Only seat accessories approved by
Mercedes-Benz may be used.

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.

96 Control systemsCOMAND FM/AM radioSelecting channels using the channel
list
Select “Audio”
“Audio”
“FM/AM
Radio”
“WB”
“Channel”.
or

Press n when the main area is select-
ed.
The channel list appears. The dotR in
front of a list entry indicates the cur-
rently selected channel.

Select channel by rotating ymz or
slidingqmr and press n.
Saving stationsYou have the following options:


Saving stations manually


Saving stations using Autostore
Saving stations manually
Option 1

Select “Audio”
“Audio”
“FM/AM
Radio”
“FM” or “AM”.

Select “Radio ”
“Save Station”.
Option 2

Press n when the main area is select-
ed.
Option 3

Select “Audio”
“Audio”
“FM/AM
Radio”
“FM” or “AM”.

Select “Presets”.
All three of these will call up a station
preset screen. The dot R in front of a
preset position indicates that the cur-
rently selected station is saved there.

Selecting a preset position:
Slideqmr or rotate ymz.
Saving a station to a selected preset po-
sition
If you have called up the station preset
screen using option 1:

Press n briefly.
In options 2 and 3:

Press and hold n until you hear a sig-
nal.
The station is saved.
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If you enter a frequency in the AM waveband
which is outside the frequency range, COMAND
tunes in to the next lowest frequency.
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This function is only available for Weather
Band.
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Twenty stations can be saved in each wave-
band except for Weather Band.


125 Control systems
COMAND telephone*
If you have accepted the call using the
Bluetooth headset, the call will be conduct-
ed via the headset.
Further operating functions can be found
in the “Functions during a single-call con-
nection” section (
page 127).
You can also accept a call if the
COMAND display is showing a screen oth-
er than the telephone mode screen. After
accepting the call, you will see the caller’s
data in a window.

Closing window: Slide qmr oromp
or press n.
Making an outgoing callEntering the telephone number using
the COMAND controller

Switching screen to telephone
mode: Call up main telephone menu
(page 121).

Entering digits: Select desired digits
by rotating ymz or sliding omp and
press n.

Deleting individual digits: Select )
and briefly press n.

Deleting an entire telephone num-
ber: Select ) and press and hold n
until the telephone number is deleted.

Connecting a call: Select “S”.
Entering a telephone number using the
telephone keypad

Switching screen to telephone
mode: Call up main telephone menu
(page 121).

Use telephone keypad to enter digits.

Connecting a call: Press s.
Redial

Switching screen to telephone
mode: Call up main telephone menu
(page 121).

Use COMAND controller to select
“S”.
or

Press s on the telephone keypad
(page 82).
The list of dialed numbers appears. The
most recently dialed number is at the
top.

Select desired entry.

Connecting a call: Press n.
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If you place an outgoing call and receive a
busy signal, the telephone automatically starts
to redial as long as the provider and the mobile
phone support this function (see mobile phone
operating instructions).
While the call is connecting, you can also send
character strings (
page 127).
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A detailed description of how to enter digits
using the telephone keypad can be found on
(
page 82).
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If the list of dialed calls contains no entries,
the “S” menu item cannot be selected and the
s button on the telephone keypad does not
function.

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.


141 Control systems
COMAND navigation (introduction)
Updating the map software
You can update the map software yourself
using a DVD.
Notes about handling DVDs

Only hold discs by the edge.


Handle discs carefully to prevent read
problems.


Avoid getting scratches, fingerprints
and dust on discs.


Use a commercially-available cleaning
cloth to clean discs. Do not wipe them
with a circular motion, but only in
straight lines from the center out-
wards.


Place discs back in their boxes after
use.


Protect discs from heat and direct sun-
light.
Updating process
The updating process has the following
phases:

Loading a DVD into the DVD changer
(page 142)


Updating process (
page 142)
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The updating process can take between 10
and 60 minutes, depending on the size of the
map software. If the radio was switched on be-
fore you started the updating process, you can
still adjust the volume. You can also use
COMAND to operate the automatic air condition-
ing and to cancel the process. Other functions
are not operational.
If possible, carry out the update when the vehicle
is stationary.
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If you carry out the update with the engine
switched off and the vehicle battery has insuffi-
cient power, COMAND may automatically switch
off during the process in order to protect the bat-
tery. If this occurs, restart the update with the
engine running period. Similarly, if the SmartKey
position is unintentionally switched to 0, restart
the update.Warning!
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Never leave the engine running in an en-
closed space. The exhaust gases contain
carbon monoxide. Inhaling exhaust gases
constitutes a health hazard and could lead
to loss of consciousness or even death.

191 Control systems
COMAND navigation system (route guidance)
Navigation announcements
Route guidance is already active.

Calling up a current announcement:
Select “Navi”
6.
or

Press P favorite button if the button
has been programmed with this func-
tion.

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.

Switching navigation announce-
ments back on manually:
Select “Navi”
6.

Adjusting volume of the messages:
adjust the volume during an automatic
announcement (
page 89).
or

Call up an announcement manually us-
ing “Navi”
6 and adjust the vol-
ume (
page 89).
Warning!
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Navigation announcements are intended to
direct you while driving without diverting
your attention from the road and driving.
Please always use this feature instead of
consulting the map display for directions.
Consulting the symbols or map display for
directions may cause you to divert your at-
tention from driving and increase your risk
of an accident.i
If Russian or Chinese is set as the system
language, the navigation announcements are in
English. You will find how to set the system lan-
guage on (
page 216).
Navigation announcements are muted during
telephone calls. You can, however, call up a cur-
rent announcement at any time. You can also
call up a current announcement at any time if
you have missed an announcement.
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You will find the button programming on
(
page 216).
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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.