Mercedes Benz 2012 B Class W246 Owners Manual

2015-09-08

• Introduction
  • Protection of the environment
    • General notes
    • Environmental concerns and recommendations
  • Genuine Mercedes-Benz parts
  • Operator's Manual
    • General notes
    • Vehicle equipment
  • Service and vehicle operation
    • Service and literature
    • Maintenance
    • Roadside Assistance
    • Change of address or change of ownership
    • Vehicle operation outside Canada
  • Operating safety
    • Important safety notes
    • Declarations of conformity
    • Diagnostics connection
    • Qualified specialist workshop
    • Correct use
    • Problems with your vehicle
    • Reporting safety defects
    • Limited Warranty
  • Data stored in the vehicle
    • Information about electronic data acquisition in the vehicle
  • Information on copyright
    • General information
• At a glance
  • Dashboard
  • Instrument cluster
    • Displays and controls
    • Warning and indicator lamps
  • Multifunction steering wheel
  • Center console
    • Center console, upper section
    • Center console, lower section
  • Overhead control panel
  • Door control panel
• Safety
  • Useful information
  • Panic alarm
  • Occupant safety
    • Important safety notes
    • SRS (Supplemental Restraint System)
    • Air bags
    • Seat belts
  • Children in the vehicle
    • Child restraint systems
    • Child-proof locks
  • Driving safety systems
    • Overview of driving safety systems
    • Important safety notes
    • ABS (Anti-lock Braking System)
    • BAS (Brake Assist System)
    • COLLISION PREVENTION ASSIST
    • Adaptive brake lights
    • ESP® (Electronic Stability Program)
    • EBD (electronic brake force distribution)
    • ADAPTIVE BRAKE
    • STEER CONTROL
  • Theft deterrent locking system
    • Immobilizer
    • ATA (anti-theft alarm system)
• Opening and closing
  • Useful information
  • SmartKey
    • Important safety notes
    • SmartKey functions
    • Changing the settings of the locking system
    • Mechanical key
    • SmartKey battery
    • Problems with the SmartKey
  • Doors
    • Important safety notes
    • Unlocking and opening doors from the inside
    • Centrally locking and unlocking the vehicle from the inside
    • Automatic locking feature
    • Unlocking the driver's door (mechanical key)
    • Locking the vehicle (mechanical key)
  • Cargo compartment
    • Important safety notes
    • Opening/closing from outside
    • Tailgate emergency release
  • Side windows
    • Important safety notes
    • Side window reversing feature
    • Opening and closing the side windows
    • Convenience opening
    • Convenience closing feature
    • Resetting the side windows
    • Problems with the side windows
  • Panorama roof with power tilt/sliding panel
    • Important safety notes
    • Sliding sunroof reversing feature
    • Operating the sliding sunroof
    • Operating the roller sunblinds for the sliding sunroof
    • Problems with the sliding sunroof
• Seats, steering wheel and mirrors
  • Useful information
  • Correct driver's seat position
  • Seats
    • Important safety notes
    • Adjusting the seats manually
    • Adjusting the seats electrically
    • Adjusting the head restraints
    • Adjusting the 4-way lumbar support
    • Switching the seat heating on/off
  • Steering wheel
    • Important safety notes
    • Adjusting the steering wheel
  • Mirrors
    • Rear-view mirror
    • Exterior mirrors
    • Automatic anti-glare mirrors
    • Parking position for the exterior mirror on the front-passenger side
  • Memory functions
    • Storing settings
    • Calling up a stored setting
• Lights and windshield wipers
  • Useful information
  • Exterior lighting
    • General notes
    • Driving abroad
    • Setting the exterior lighting
    • Combination switch
    • Hazard warning lamps
    • Headlamp cleaning system
    • Cornering light function
    • Extended range fog lamps
    • Adaptive Highbeam Assist
    • Headlamps fogged up on the inside
  • Interior lighting
    • Overview of interior lighting
    • Interior lighting control
    • Crash-responsive emergency lighting
  • Replacing bulbs
    • Important safety notes
    • Overview: changing bulbs/bulb types
    • Changing the front bulbs
    • Changing the rear bulbs
  • Windshield wipers
    • Switching the windshield wipers on/off
    • Switching the rear window wiper on/off
    • Replacing the wiper blades
    • Problems with the windshield wipers
• Climate control
  • Useful information
  • Overview of climate control systems
    • Important safety notes
    • Control panel for automatic climate control
    • Notes on using automatic climate control
    • Control panel for dual-zone automatic climate control
    • Notes on using dual-zone automatic climate control
  • Operating the climate control systems
    • Switching climate control on/off
    • Activating/deactivating cooling with air dehumidification
    • Setting the climate control to automatic
    • Setting the temperature
    • Setting the air distribution
    • Setting the airflow
    • Switching the ZONE function on/off
    • Defrosting the windshield
    • MAX COOL maximum cooling
    • Defrosting the windows
    • Rear window defroster
    • Activating/deactivating air-recirculation mode
    • Activating/deactivating the residual heat function
  • Setting the air vents
    • Important safety notes
    • Setting the center air vents
    • Setting the side air vents
    • Setting the rear-compartment air vents
• Driving and parking
  • Useful information
  • Notes on breaking-in a new vehicle
    • Important safety notes
    • The first1,000miles (1,500 km)
  • Driving
    • Important safety notes
    • Key positions
    • Starting the engine
    • Pulling away
    • ECO start/stop function
    • Problems with the engine
  • Automatic transmission
    • Important safety notes
    • DIRECT SELECT lever
    • Transmission positions
    • Changing gear
    • Driving tips
    • Program selector button
    • Steering wheel paddle shifters
    • Automatic drive program
    • Manual drive program
    • Problems with the transmission
  • Refueling
    • Important safety notes
    • Refueling
    • Problems with fuel and the fuel tank
  • Parking
    • Important safety notes
    • Switching off the engine
    • Electric parking brake
    • Parking the vehicle for a long period
  • Driving tips
    • General notes
    • ECO display
    • Brakes
    • Driving on wet roads
    • Winter driving
  • Driving systems
    • Cruise control
    • DISTRONIC PLUS
    • HOLD function
    • PARKTRONIC
    • Active Parking Assist
    • Rear view camera
    • ATTENTION ASSIST
    • Lane Tracking package
• On-board computer and displays
  • Useful information
  • Important safety notes
  • Displays and operation
    • Instrument cluster lighting
    • Coolant temperature display
    • Tachometer
    • Outside temperature display
    • Speedometer with segments
    • Operating the on-board computer
    • Multifunction display
  • Menus and submenus
    • Menu overview
    • Trip menu
    • Navigation system menu
    • Audio menu
    • Telephone menu
    • Assistance menu
    • Maintenance menu
    • Settings menu
  • Display messages
    • General notes
    • Hiding display messages
    • Message memory
    • Safety systems
    • Lights
    • Engine
    • Driving systems
    • Tires
    • Vehicle
    • SmartKey
  • Warning and indicator lamps in the instrument cluster
    • Seat belts
    • Safety systems
    • Engine
    • Driving systems
• Stowage and features
  • Useful information
  • Loading guidelines
  • Stowage areas
    • Stowage space
    • Parcel nets
    • Folding backrest on the front-passenger seat
    • Through-loading facility in the rear
    • Cargo compartment enlargement
    • Securing cargo
    • Cargo compartment cover
    • Cargo net
    • Stowage well under the cargo compartment floor
    • Roof carrier
  • Features
    • Cup holder
    • Sun visors
    • Ashtray
    • Cigarette lighter
    • 12 V sockets
    • mbrace
    • Garage door opener
    • Compass
    • Floormat on the driver's side
• Maintenance and care
  • Useful information
  • Engine compartment
    • Hood
    • Engine oil
    • Checking and adding other service products
  • Maintenance
    • ASSYST PLUS
  • Care
    • General notes
    • Exterior care
    • Interior care
• Breakdown assistance
  • Useful information
  • Where will I find...?
    • First-aid kit
    • Vehicle tool kit
  • Flat tire
    • Preparing the vehicle
    • MOExtended tires (tires with run-flat properties)
    • TIREFIT kit
  • Battery (vehicle)
    • Important safety notes
    • Charging the battery
  • Jump-starting
  • Towing and tow-starting
    • Important safety notes
    • Installing/removing the towing eye
    • Towing the vehicle with the front axle raised
    • Towing a vehicle with both axles on the ground
    • Transporting the vehicle
    • Tow-starting (emergency engine starting)
  • Fuses
    • Important safety notes
    • Before changing a fuse
    • Fuse box in the engine compartment
    • Fuse box in the front-passenger footwell
• Wheels and tires
  • Useful information
  • Important safety notes
  • Operation
    • Information on driving
    • Regular checking of wheels and tires
    • Tire tread
    • Selecting, mounting and replacing tires
    • MOExtended tires (tires with run-flat properties)
  • Winter operation
    • General notes
    • Driving with summer tires
    • M+S tires
    • Snow chains
  • Tire pressure
    • Tire pressure specifications
    • Important notes on tire pressure
    • Underinflated or overinflated tires
    • Checking the tire pressures
    • Tire pressure loss warning system
  • Loading the vehicle
    • Instruction labels for tires and loads
    • Maximum permissible gross vehicle weight rating
    • Number of seats
    • Determining the correct load limit
    • Vehicle identification plate
    • Trailer load/noseweight
  • Maximum load rating
  • Uniform Tire Quality Grading Standards
    • Overview of Tire Quality Grading Standards
    • Treadwear
    • Traction
    • Temperature
  • Tire labeling
    • Overview of tire labeling
    • Tire size designation, load-bearing capacity and speed rating
    • Load index
    • DOT, Tire Identification Number (TIN)
    • Tire characteristics
  • Definition of terms for tires and loading
    • Tire ply composition and material used
    • Bar
    • DOT (Department of Transportation)
    • Normal occupant weight
    • Uniform Tire Quality Grading Standards
    • Recommended tire pressure
    • Increased vehicle weight due to optional equipment
    • Rim
    • GAWR (Gross Axle Weight Rating)
    • Speed rating
    • GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight)
    • GVWR (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating)
    • Maximum loaded vehicle weight
    • Kilopascal (kPa)
    • Load index
    • Curb weight
    • Maximum load rating
    • Maximum permissible tire pressure
    • Maximum load on one tire
    • PSI (pounds per square inch)
    • Aspect ratio
    • Tire pressure
    • Tire pressure of cold tires
    • Tread
    • Bead
    • Sidewall
    • Weight of optional extras
    • TIN (Tire Identification Number)
    • Load bearing index
    • Traction
    • Treadwear indicators
    • Occupant distribution
    • Total load limit
  • Changing a wheel
    • Flat tire
    • Rotating the wheels
    • Direction of rotation
    • Storing wheels
    • Cleaning the wheels
    • Mounting a wheel
  • Wheel and tire combinations
    • General notes
    • Tires
  • Emergency spare wheel
    • Important safety notes
    • General notes
    • Removing the emergency spare wheel
    • Technical data
• Technical data
  • Useful information
  • Information regarding technical data
  • Warranty
  • Identification plates
    • Vehicle identification plate with vehicle identification number (VIN)
    • VIN
    • Engine number
  • Service products and filling capacities
    • Important safety notes
    • Fuel
    • Engine oil
    • Brake fluid
    • Coolant
    • Windshield washer system and headlamp cleaning system
    • Climate control system refrigerant
  • Vehicle data
    • General notes
  • Internet
  • Editorial office