Users Manual Part 5
Table Of Contents
- Wheels and tyres
- Notes on noise or unusual handling characteristics
- Notes on regularly inspecting wheels and tyres
- Notes on snow chains
- Activating or deactivating snow chain mode
- Tyre pressure
- Wheel change
- Notes on selecting, fitting and replacing tyres
- Notes on interchanging wheels
- Notes on storing wheels
- Overview of the tyre-change tool kit
- Preparing the vehicle for a wheel change
- Removing and fitting hub caps
- Raising the vehicle when changing a wheel
- Removing a wheel
- Fitting a new wheel
- Lowering the vehicle after a wheel change
- Emergency spare wheel
- Technical data
- Display messages and warning/indicator lamps
- Index
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WARNING Risk of explosion during
charging process and starting assistance
During the charging process and starting
assistance, the battery may release an explo‐
sive gas mixture.
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Avoid fire, naked flames, creating
sparks and smoking.
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Make sure there is sufficient ventila‐
tion.
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Do not lean over a battery.
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WARNING Risk of explosion from a fro‐
zen battery
A discharged battery may freeze at tempera‐
tures slightly above or below freezing point.
During starting assistance or battery charg‐
ing, battery gas can be released.
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Always allow a battery to thaw before
charging it or performing starting assis‐
tance.
If the indicator/warning lamps in the instrument
cluster do not light up at low temperatures, it is
very likely that the discharged battery has fro‐
zen. In this case you may neither jump-start the
vehicle nor charge the battery.
The service life of a battery that has been
thawed may be dramatically shortened. The
starting characteristics may be impaired, espe‐
cially at low temperatures.
It is recommended that you have a thawed bat‐
tery checked at a qualified specialist workshop.
All vehicles
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NOTE Damage caused by numerous or
extended attempts to start the engine
Numerous or extended attempts to start the
engine may damage the catalytic converter
due to non-combusted fuel.
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Avoid numerous and extended attempts
to start the engine.
Observe the following points during starting
assistance and when charging the battery:
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Only use undamaged jump lead/charging
cables with a sufficient cross-section and
insulated terminal clamps.
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Non-insulated parts of the terminal clamps
must not come into contact with other metal
parts while the jump lead/charging cable is
connected to the battery/jump-start connec‐
tion point.
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The jump lead/charging cable must not
come into contact with any parts which may
move when the engine is running.
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Always make sure that neither you nor the
battery is electrostatically charged.
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Keep away from fire and naked flames.
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Do not lean over the battery.
Observe the additional following points when
charging the battery:
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Only use battery chargers tested and
approved for Mercedes-Benz.
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Read the battery charger's operating instruc‐
tions before charging the battery.
Breakdown assistance
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