2003 MERCEDES-BENZ M-Class Comand Manual

MCS Operator’s Manual

Order no. 6515 6666 13 Part no. 163 584 06 96 USA EditionB 10/02

Welcome to MCS!
Please make yourself familiar with your
MCS control unit and read the instructions
in this manual before operating the MCS
system. This will help you derive a greater
benefit from the system. Please also follow
the instructions and warnings contained in
this manual. Ignoring them could result in
damage to the vehicle or personal injury to
you or others.
Your MCS system may have some or all of
the equipment described in this manual.
Therefore, you may find explanations for
optional equipment not installed in your
vehicle. If you have any questions about
the operation of any equipment, your au-
thorized Mercedes-Benz Center will be
glad to demonstrate the proper procedu-
res. We continuously strive to improve our pro-
duct and ask for your understanding that
we reserve the right to make changes in
design and equipment. Therefore, informa-
tion, illustrations and descriptions in this
manual might differ from the equipment in-
stalled in your vehicle. As such, the infor-
mation, illustrations and descriptions
contained in this manual may not be reaso-
nably relied upon in making any claims
with respect to the actual performance of
the product.
These operating instructions form an inte-
gral part of the vehicle and should there-
fore always be kept inside the vehicle and
passed on to the new owner if the vehicle
is sold.
We extend our best wishes for many miles
of safe, pleasurable driving.
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
A DaimlerChrysler Company

Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Where to find it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Operating safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
MCS control unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Display screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Quick reference MCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Switching the MCS operating
unit on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Adjusting the volume . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Tape operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
CD operation* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Telephone operation* . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Navigation system, entering a
destination and calculating
a route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Switching radio operation on . . . . . 30
Switching another system on . . . . . 30
Changing the Radio band . . . . . . . . 31
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Memory functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Tape operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Inserting or ejecting a tape. . . . . . . 40
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Listening to a cassette . . . . . . . . . . 44
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Changing sides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Fast forward and rewind . . . . . . . . . 45
Music search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Tape scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Blank skip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Dolby B (noise reduction) . . . . . . . . 47
Pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
General information on CD
mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Inserting or ejecting a CD . . . . . . . . 51
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Switching CD operation on
and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Selecting a CD
MCS with CD changer. . . . . . . . . . . 58
Track select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Music seek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
CD track scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
CD track repeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
CD track random play . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Pause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Elasped time display . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Audio Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Audio Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Telephone mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Switching telephone
operation on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Switching telephone
operation off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Incoming call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Outgoing call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Emergency call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Contents
Navigation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Quick reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Inserting or ejecting the
navigation DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Destination input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Menu overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Switching the navigation
system on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Entering destination address . . . . . 91
Route guidance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Route guidance principles . . . . . . 110
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Address book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Today’s plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Saving the current
vehicle position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Editing the Previous
Destination list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Voice prompt frequency . . . . . . . . 130
Selecting the guidance display . . . 131
Selecting the estimated
time displayed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Selecting which Point of
Interest icons are displayed . . . . . 134
Setting map and
screen orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Info Services/System settings. . . . 137
Info Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Requesting and displaying
Info Services* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Switching between the light
and the dark mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Setting the display dimming
characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Selecting the language and
unit of measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Integrated clock adjustment . . . . . 143
System information . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

5
Where to find it
Introduction
Where to find it
This Operator's Manual is designed to pro-
vide support information for you, the MCS
operator. Each chapter has its own guide
color to provide fast access to information.
At a glance
This chapter will give you an overview of all
MCS control elements and system compo-
nents. If you are operating MCS for the first
time or if you have rented or borrowed the
vehicle, this is the chapter you should read
first.
Audio
Here you will find detailed information on
how to use the radio, cassette player, sin-
gle CD player*, CD changer* and adjust
the audio system settings.
Telephone*
Here you can learn in detail about the
many functions of the telephone, how to
initiate an emergency call and use service
numbers.
Navigation*
This chapter provides detailed information
on the following topics:

Destination input

Route selection and calculation

Route guidance

Destination memory
Info Services* and system settings
This chapter provides information on how
to:

Request and display info services such
as news, weather, stocks and sports

Adjust MCS system settings.
Directories
The table of contents and index will help
you to quickly locate the information you
need.