Mercedes-Benz ML320. Manual — part 75

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Activating

1 Button
2 Indicator lamp

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Press button 1.

Indicator lamp 2 comes on.

Deactivating

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Press button 1 again.

Indicator lamp 2 goes out.

Activating exterior rear view mirror
parking position

The buttons are on the lower part of the
center console.

1 Deactivating parking position
2 Activating parking position
3 Adjustment button

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Make sure you have stored a parking
position for the passenger-side exterior
rear view mirror (

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page 106).

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Switch on ignition (if not already on).

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Press button 2.

The passenger-side exterior rear view
mirror is selected.

Warning!

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Exercise care when using the passen-
ger-side exterior rear view mirror. The mirror
surface is convex (outwardly curved surface
for a wider field of view). Objects in mirror
are closer than they appear. Check your in-
terior rear view mirror or glance over your
shoulder before changing lanes.

!

Electrolyte drops coming into contact
with the vehicle paint finish can only be
completely removed while in their liq-
uid state and by applying plenty of wa-
ter.

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Engage reverse gear R.

The passenger-side exterior rear view
mirror moves automatically to the
stored parking position.

The exterior rear view mirror returns to its
stored driving position:

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ten seconds after you put the gear
selector lever in position D

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immediately once your vehicle exceeds
a speed of approx. 6 mph (10 km/h)

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immediately when you press the
button 1 for driver’s side mirror

Electrically folding exterior rear view
mirrors

Folding exterior mirrors in and out
manually*

The exterior rear view mirrors can vibrate if
they are not completely folded out.

The buttons are located on the upper cen-
ter console.

1 Folds the exterior mirrors in
2 Folds the exterior mirrors out

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Check that the ignition is switched on.

All the lamps in the instrument cluster
come on.

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If the button 1 is pressed, the auto-
matic passenger-side exterior rear view
parking position is deactivated.

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Before driving the vehicle through an
automatic car wash, fold the exterior
mirrors in. Otherwise they may get
damaged.

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With the front doors closed, the exteri-
or mirrors can still be folded in and out
approximately 30 minutes after the ig-
nition has been turned off.

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Folding in

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Briefly press button 1 (

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page 127).

The mirrors fold in.

Folding out

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Briefly press button 2.

The mirrors fold out.

Windshield wipers

Information on the windshield wipers is
found in the “Getting started” section
(

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page 49).

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Before you drive the vehicle through an
automatic car wash, fold the exterior
mirrors in, otherwise they may get
damaged.

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If you are driving at more than approxi-
mately 9 mph (15 km/h), you will not
able to fold the exterior mirrors in.

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If an exterior rear view mirror housing
is forcibly pushed forward (hit from the
rear), reposition it manually by applying
firm pressure until it snaps back into
place.

If an exterior rear view mirror is forcibly
pushed rearward (hit from the front)
press button 1 to fold mirrors in, then
press button 2 to fold mirrors out. Do
not force mirrors by hand as this may
damage the adjustment mechanism.

The mirror housing is now properly po-
sitioned and you can adjust the mirror
normally.

!

If leaves, snow, etc. block the wind-
shield wipers, the wiper motor turns
off.

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For safety reasons, withdraw key
from steering lock. Remove block-
age.

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Turn the windshield wipers on
again.

If windshield wipers fail to function at
all in switch position 1,

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set the wiper switch to the next
highest wiper speed.

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have the windshield wipers
checked at the nearest authorized
Mercedes-Benz Light Truck Center.

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Intermittent wiping

Windshield wipers without rain sensor*

At speeds of approximately 105 mph
(170 km/h) the wiper switches automati-
cally to continuous wiping. Always obey lo-
cal speed limits.

Windshield wipers with rain sensor*

A rain sensor automatically controls the
windshield wipers depending on how wet
the windshield is.

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Switch on ignition.

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Set the wiper switch to position 1
(

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page 49).

After the initial wipe, pauses between
wipes are automatically controlled by the
rain sensor which monitors the wetness of
windshield.

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Intermittent wiping is interrupted when
the vehicle is at a standstill and a front
door is opened.

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When intermittent wiping is on and the
key is turned from position 1 to
position 2 in the steering lock
(

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page 33), and kept in that position

for longer than two seconds, the wipe
interval will be set to approximately
five seconds.

!

Do not leave windshield wipers in inter-
mittent setting when the vehicle is tak-
en to an automatic car wash or during
windshield cleaning. Wipers will oper-
ate in the presence of water sprayed on
the windshield, and wipers may be
damaged as a result.

The switch should not be left in inter-
mittent setting as the wipers will wipe
the windshield once every time the en-
gine is started. Dust that accumulates
on the windshield might scratch the
glass and /or damage the wiper blades
when wiping occurs on a dry wind-
shield.