WARNING
The PRE-SAFE® system reduces the impact of an accident on vehicle occupants, as long as their seat belts have been fastened correctly.
Although your vehicle is equipped with a PRESAFE ® system, the possibility of injury in the event of an accident cannot be ruled out. You should therefore always drive carefully and adapt your driving style to the prevailing road, weather and traffic conditions.
WARNING
Make sure that nobody can become trapped as you adjust the seat.
Make sure that there are no objects in the footwell or behind the seats when resetting the seats. There is a risk that the seats and/or the objects could be damaged.
PRE-SAFE® takes preemptive measures to protect occupants in certain hazardous situations.
PRE-SAFE® intervenes:
• if BAS intervenes, e.g. in emergency
braking situations
• if BAS PLUS intervenes powerfully — on
vehicles with DISTRONIC PLUS
• if, on vehicles with DISTRONIC PLUS, the
radar sensor system detects an imminent
danger of collision in certain situations
• in critical driving situations, e.g. when
physical limits are exceeded and the
vehicle understeers or oversteers severely
PRE-SAFE® takes the following measures
depending on the hazardous situation
detected:
• the front seat belts are pre-tensioned.
• vehicles with the memory function: the front-passenger seat is adjusted if it is in an unfavorable position.
• vehicles with a multicontour seat: the air pressure in the side bolsters of the seat backrest is increased.
• if the vehicle skids, the sliding sunroof/ panorama roof with power tilt/sliding panel and the side windows are closed so that only a small gap remains.
If the hazardous situation passes without resulting in an accident, PRE-SAFE® slackens the belt pretensioning. In vehicles with multicontour seats, the air pressure in the side bolsters is reduced again. All settings made by PRE-SAFE® can then be reversed.
If the seat belts are not released: ■ Move the backrest or seat back slightly, but only when the vehicle is stationary.
The belt pretensioning is reduced and the locking mechanism is released.
More information about seat belt adjustment, a convenience function integrated into PRESAFE ®, can be found in the "Seat belt adjustment" section .
Adjusting the multicontour seat
1 To adjust the thigh cushion
2 To adjust the backrest contour in the
lumbar region
3 To adjust the backrest contour in the
upper back region
4 To adjust the side bolsters of the seat
backrest ...
Driving on wet roads
Do not drive through flooded areas.
Check the depth of any water before driving
through it. Drive slowly through standing
water. Otherwise, water may enter the
vehicle interior or the engine com ...
Operating the sliding sunroof
manually
The actuator is located in the cargo
compartment, on the left-hand side behind
the rear wall trim.
► Open the rear door.
► Pull off edge protection 1 from the door
pillar in the dir ...