Mercedes-Benz B-Class 2011 Owner's Manual page 176

Reversing straight into a parking space
without turning the steering wheel
White lane indicating the route the vehicle
:
will take with the steering wheel straight
Yellow guide line at a distance of approx-
;
imately 1.0 m from the rear of the vehicle
Red guide line at a distance of approx-
=
imately 0.25 mfrom the rear of the vehicle
With the help of white lane :, check
X
whether the vehicle will fit into the parking
space.
Using the white lane as a guide, carefully
X
reverse until you reach the end position.
Red guide line = is then at the end of the
parking space. The vehicle is almost paral-
lel in the parking space.
Reverse perpendicular parking with the
steering wheel at an angle
Drive past the parking space and bring the
X
vehicle to a standstill.
Turning the steering wheel
Red lane indicating the route the vehicle
:
will take with the steering wheel in its cur-
rent position
Parking space marking
;
While the vehicle is at a standstill, turn the
X
steering wheel in the direction of the park-
ing space until the red lane reaches parking
space marking ;.
Keep the steering wheel in that position
X
and reverse carefully.
Reversing with the steering wheel turned
Red lane indicating the route the vehicle
:
will take with the steering wheel in its cur-
rent position
Stop the vehicle when it is almost exactly
X
in front of the parking space.
The white lane should be as close to parallel
with the parking space marking as possi-
ble.
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