Useful Information - Mercedes-Benz S-Class 2013 Owner's Manual

Exterior lighting
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Useful information

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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
General 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 (exception:
vehicles with static LED headlamps). This pre-
vents oncoming traffic from being dazzled.
Symmetrical lights do not illuminate as large
an area of the edge of the carriageway.
Vehicles with static LED headlamps
It is not necessary to switch your headlamps
to symmetrical dipped beam when driving in
countries where vehicles are driven on the
opposite side of the road to the country in
which the vehicle is registered. Legal require-
page 27).
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ments are fulfilled without switching the
headlamps to symmetrical dipped beam.
Vehicles with Intelligent Light System
Before crossing the border, set the head-
X
lamps to symmetrical dipped beam and
after returning back to asymmetrical
dipped beam via the "Dipped-beam head-
lamps for driving on the right/left" function
in 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
combination switch (
R
on-board computer (
R
Light switch
Operation
Left-hand parking lamps
1W
Right-hand parking lamps
2X
Side lamps, licence plate and instru-
3T
ment cluster lighting
Automatic headlamp mode, control-
4Ã
led by the light sensor
page 315).
Y
page 150)
Y
page 315)
Y