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You can use the rocking-free drive function in
all permissible pulling-away gears to rock the
vehicle out of a depression in the terrain. If
you release the accelerator pedal when rock-
ing free, the dry clutch is immediately disen-
gaged and the vehicle rolls back. If you
depress the accelerator pedal again, the dry
clutch engages immediately and the vehicle
pulls away.
Vehicles with a hydrodynamic clutch: if the
on-board computer event window shows
Clutch under heavy
free drive function is automatically disen-
gaged.
Activating
X
Drive at a speed below approximately
5 km/h.
X
Select a pulling-away gear, e.g. 1st to
8th gear for transmissions with 16 forward
gears.
or
X
Select reverse gear 1 or 2.
X
Press the upper section of the i button.
The indicator lamp in the i button lights
up. The transmission control switches
automatically to the manual drive program.
Deactivating
X
Drive at a speed above approximately
8 km/h.
or
X
Press the upper section of the i button
again.
The indicator lamp in the i button goes
out.
strain, the rocking
Automated transmission
Pulling away and stopping the vehicle
Pulling away
Multifunction lever
Depending on the transmission, various pull-
ing-away gears can be selected. For the 8-
speed transmission, 1st - 3rd; for the 12-
speed transmission, 1st - 6th; and for the 16-
speed transmission, 1st - 8th gearcan be
selected.
If the clutch is under a heavy load, you can
only pull away in 1st gear. In the municip
gearshift program, you cannot select a gear
higher than 2nd to pull away (
X
Start the engine.
X
Turn the direction of travel selection switch
to the h position (drive) :.
In all drive programs, the transmission con-
trol selects a suitable pulling-away gear,
which can be changed manually, depending
on the vehicle load.
X
Release the brake pedal or parking brake
and depress the accelerator pedal.
To achieve higher torque, the engine speed
may increase to approximately 1100 rpm
when pulling away in 1st gear with the
accelerator pedal fully depressed. The
engine speed is automatically increased as
required for pulling away.
Changing the starting gear
X
Pull the multifunction lever up briefly (to
shift up) ; or push it down briefly (to shift
down) =.
The transmission control shifts up or down
1 gear.
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