Useful Information - Mercedes-Benz E-Class Owner's Manual

Exterior lighting
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This Owner's Manual describes all mod-
els, series and optional equipment for your
vehicle that were available at the time of
going to press. National variations are pos-
sible. Note that your vehicle may not be
equipped with all of the functions descri-
bed. This is also the case for systems and
functions relevant to safety.
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Exterior lighting
Important safety notes
For reasons of safety, Mercedes-Benz recom-
mends that you drive with the lights switched
on even during the daytime. In some coun-
tries, operation of the headlamps varies due
to legal requirements and self-imposed obli-
gations.
Driving abroad
General notes
If your journey takes you to countries where
vehicles are driven on the opposite side of the
road to the country in which the vehicle is
registered, your headlamps must be switched
to symmetrical dipped beam as soon as pos-
sible after crossing the border. This prevents
oncoming traffic from being dazzled. Sym-
metrical lights do not illuminate as large an
area of the edge of the carriageway.
page 23).
Y
Vehicles with halogen headlamps
Switch off the lights.
X
Open the bonnet.
X
Turn housing cover : anti-clockwise and
X
pull it out.
Push switchover lever ; down.
X
Insert housing cover : and turn it clock-
X
wise.
Convert the headlamps back to asymmetrical
dipped beam as soon as possible after return-
ing across the border.
Vehicles with Intelligent Light System
Before crossing the border, set the head-
X
lamps to symmetrical dipped beam and
when returning to asymmetrical dipped-
beam using the "Dipped-beam headlamps
for driving on the right or left" function on
the on-board computer (
If the headlamps are converted to symmetri-
cal dipped beam, the "motorway mode" and
"extended range foglamps" functions are not
available.
Setting the exterior lighting
Setting options
Exterior lighting can be set using the:
light switch
R
beam control (only vehicles with halogen
R
headlamps) ( page 126)
Y
page 243).
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