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Tips
- On vehicles with drive select*, you can
adjust the sporty shift characteristics in
the Dynamic driving mode.Swill appear
in the instrument cluster display instead
ofD.
- If you accidentally select N while driving,
take your foot off the accelerator pedal
immediately and wait for the engine to
slow down to idle before selecting D/S.
- If there is a power failure, the selector
lever will not move out of the P position .
The emergency release can be used if
th is happens ~
page 98.
Automatic Shift Lock (ASL)
Applies to vehicles : with mult itronic/5 tronic/tiptron ic
The Automatic Shift Lock safeguards you
against accidentally shifting into a forward or
the reverse gear and causing the vehicle to
move unintentionally.
Fig. 104
Shift gate: selector lever lock positions and
release button highlighted
The selector lever lock is released as follows:
... Turn the ignition on .
... Step on the brake pedal.
At the same time
press and hold the release button on the
side of the gear se lector knob ¢
fig. 104
with your thumb until you have moved the
selector lever to the desired position .
Automatic selector lever lock
The selector lever is locked in the P and N po·
sitions when the ignition is turned on . You
must press the brake pedal and the release
button to select another position. As a re·
minder to the driver, the following warning
Transmission
93
appears in the instrument cluster display
when the selector is in P and N:
When stationary apply brake pedal while se-
lecting gear
The Automatic Shift Lock only functions when
the vehicle is stationary or at speeds below
1 mph (2 km/h) .
At speeds above about 1 mph (2 km/h) the
Automatic Shift Lock is automatically deacti-
vated in the N position .
A time delay element prevents the selector
lever from locking when it is moved through
the N position (going from R to D/S). The lock-
ing element will lock the selector lever if the
lever is left in N (Neutra l) for more than ap-
proximately 2 seconds, without the brake ped-
al being pressed.
Release button
The release button on the selector lever pre-
vents the lever from be ing accidentally shifted
into certain positions. Depending on the direc-
tion of the shift, the selector lever locks at dif-
ferent positions. The positions are highlighted
in the illustration¢
fig. 104 .
Ignition key safety interlock
The key cannot be removed from the ignition
unless the selector lever is in the P park posi-
tion. When the ignition key is removed, the
selector lever will be locked in the P position.
Driving the automatic transmission
Applies to vehicles; with mult itronic/S tronic/tiptronic
Fig. 1 05
Shift gate on the center console: selector lev-
er with release butto n
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