Drive Program - Mercedes-Benz S 350 Owner's Manual

Controls
Automatic transmission
Trailer towing
Drive in the middle of the engine speed
range on uphill gradients.
Shift down to shift range 3 or 2, de-
pending on the uphill or downhill gradi-
ent ( page 296).
i
You must shift down even if cruise control is
activated.
Working on the vehicle
G
Risk of accident
When work is being carried out on the vehi-
cle, always secure your vehicle with the
electric parking brake and shift the automat-
ic transmission to the P parking position.
The vehicle could otherwise roll away.
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Program selector button
Using the program selector button you can
change:
the gearshift program
the Airmatic ( page 327) or ABC*
( page 328) suspension characteris-
tics
the engine control
P27.60-2736-31
1 Program selector button
You can select the following drive pro-
grams:
Drive Settings
program
C Comfort Standard setting with
comfortable engine,
transmission and sus-
pension tuning
S Sport Dynamic engine, trans-
mission and suspension
tuning
M Manual Manual gearshifting
with dynamic engine,
transmission and sus-
pension tuning
!
Only press program selector button 1
when the transmission is in position P, N or D.
To select the drive program: press
program selector button 1 repeatedly
until the letter (S/C/M) for the drive
program you desire appears in the
speedometer display ( page 293).