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conditions. Always be ready to apply the
brakes.
Manual shift program
Using the manual shift program you can
manually select gears.
Fig. 99
Center console: shift ing t he gea rs manually
Fig. 100
Stee ring wheel: Shift buttons
Gear selection with selector lever
The tiptronic mode can be selected either with
the vehicle stationary or on the move.
.. Push the selector lever to the right from 0/
5. An M appears in the instrument cluster
display as soon as the transmission has
shifted.
.. To upshift, push the selector lever forward
to the plus position
0
c:>
fig . 99 .
.. To downshift, push the lever to the minus
position
0 -
Gear selection with paddle levers*
The shift buttons are activated when these-
lector lever is in 0/5 or the t iptronic manual
shift program .
.. To upshift, touch the button on the right
0
c>fig . 100.
Transmission
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.. To downshift, touch the button on the left
0 .
.. If you do not press a shift button within a
short time while in the 0/5 position, the
transmission will return to automatic mode.
To keep shifting using the shift buttons,
move the selector lever to the right out of
the 0/5 position .
When accelerating, the transmission does
not
automatically shift to the next gear shortly
before the maximum permitted engine RPM is
reached.
If you have selected a lower gear than the cur-
rent one, the automatic transmission will shift
down only when the engine will not be over-
revved.
With kick-down, the transmission shifts into a
lower gear depend ing on speed and engine
RPM.
(D
Tips
Tiptronic is inoperative when the transmis-
sion is in the fail-safe mode .
, Kick-down
Kick-down enables maximum acceleration.
When you depress the accelerator pedal be-
yond the resistance point, the automatic
transmission downshifts into a lower gear, de-
pending on vehicle speed and engine speed.
The upshift into the next higher gear takes
place once the maximum specified engine
speed is reached .
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WARNING
Please note that th e whee ls can spin if
kick-down is used on a smooth slippery
road - there is a risk of skidding.
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