Table Of Contents - Mercedes-Benz Conecto Manual

Vehicle identification . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
General safety information . . . . . . . . 4
Windscreen wiper system safety
precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Operation of auxiliary heating . . . . . . 8
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Preparation for the journey - daily
tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Preparation for the journey - weekly
tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
General bus care and mainten-
ance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Care and cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Running-in guideline . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Stopping the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Towing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Front towing coupling . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Rear towing coupling (option, not
applicable to Conecto G) . . . . . . . . . 24
Brake system safety precautions . . . 25
Braking and stopping . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Brakes with anti-locking protec-
tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Brake pressure/supply pressure
(operating pressure) . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Brake system operating/malfunction
displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Activating/deactivating acceleration
skid control (ASR) (option) . . . . . . . 31
Operating/malfunction displays
ABS/ASR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Refuelling (diesel fuel) . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Service products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
BlueTec exhaust gas cleaning
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
AdBlue service product . . . . . . . . . . 37
Winter operation with diesel fuels for
buses with fuel-lubricated injection
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Low-temperature characteristics of
diesel fuels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Diesel fuels available by region . . . . 39

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Replacing the fuel filter . . . . . . . . . . 40
Addition of petrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Addition of flow improvers . . . . . . . . 40
Measures required in the event
of inadequate low-temperature
characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Measures required in the event of
pre-existing paraffin separation . . . . 41
Winter operation with FAME biodies-
el . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Opening/closing the fuel filler
cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Filling with AdBlue (Euro 4) . . . . . . . 44
Fuel system operating/malfunction
displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anti-jackknifing protection during
forward travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Anti-jackknifing protection during
reverse travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Stop request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Ramp request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Safety instructions for the oper-
ation of folding/cassette ramps
(option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Folding the ramp in/out . . . . . . . . . 52
Retracting/extending the ramp . . . . 54
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