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● Press the clutch pedal and keep your foot
right down.
● Move the gearbox lever to the required po-
sition.
● Release the clutch.
Selecting reverse gear
● Press the clutch pedal and keep your foot
right down.
● With the gearbox lever in neutral, push it
upwards, move it to the left as far as it will go
and then forwards to select reverse
.
R
● Release the clutch.
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in Changing gear on page 179
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page 179
The essentials
Automatic gearbox*
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Fig. 52
Automatic gearbox: selector lever po-
Fig. 53
sitions.
P Parking lock
R Reverse gear
N Neutral (idling)
D/S Drive (forward)
+/– Tiptronic mode: pull the lever forwards
(+) to go up a gear or backwards (–) to
go down a gear.
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in Selector lever positions on
page 181
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page 180
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page 43
Manual release of the selector lever
Selector lever: manual release from
Fig. 54
position P.
Should the power supply be interrupted,
there is a manual unlocking device located
under the console of the selector lever, on
the right. Releasing the selector lever re-
quires a certain degree of practical skill.
● Unlocking: use the flat part of a screwdriver
blade.
Removing the cover from the selector lever
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Apply the handbrake 
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the car does not move.
● Carefully pull the corners of the selector
lever boot and twist it upwards above the lev-
er handle.
to ensure that
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