Permanent Speedtronic - Mercedes-Benz S 350 Owner's Manual

Controls
Driving systems
Press the cruise control lever briefly up
or down in the direction of arrow 1 or
2.
The road speed is shown in the display
and is stored. Speedtronic rounds the
speed up to the next highest or lowest
multiple of 10 km/h.
The speedometer range lights up from
the start of the scale up to the stored
speed.
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Risk of accident
If there is a change of drivers, advise the
new driver of the limit speed stored.
Only use Speedtronic if you will not have to
accelerate suddenly to a speed above that
stored as the limit speed. You could other-
wise cause an accident.
You can only exceed the stored limit speed
if you switch off variable Speedtronic, e.g.
by depressing the accelerator pedal beyond
the pressure point (kickdown).
It is not possible to deactivate variable
Speedtronic by braking.
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Selecting a stored speed
Pull the cruise control lever briefly in
the direction of arrow 4.
Adjustment in 1 km/h increments
Press the cruise control lever briefly up
or down in the direction of arrow 1 or
2.
The most recently stored speed in-
creases or decreases.
Adjustment in 10 km/h increments
Push the cruise control lever beyond
the detent up 1 for a higher speed or
down 2 for a lower speed.
Deactivating variable Speedtronic
There are various ways of deactivating var-
iable Speedtronic:
Pull the cruise control lever briefly in
the direction of arrow 3.
Variable Speedtronic is deactivated.
or
Push the cruise control lever in the di-
rection of arrow 5.
The LIM indicator lamp goes out.
Cruise control or Distronic* is select-
ed.
Variable Speedtronic is deactivated auto-
matically if you depress the accelerator
pedal beyond the pressure point (kick-
down) and your current driven speed dif-
fers from the stored speed by less than
20 km/h.
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Permanent Speedtronic

You can use the instrument cluster operat-
ing system to limit the speed permanently
to a value of 160 km/h or more, e.g. for
driving on winter tyres.
Permanent Speedtronic remains active,
even if variable Speedtronic is deactivated.
You cannot even exceed the set limit
speed by depressing the accelerator pedal
beyond the pressure point (kickdown).
Make sure that the key is in position 2
in the ignition lock.
1 Not available in all countries.