2004 MERCEDES-BENZ E-Class key

Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Where to find it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Operating safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Radio operating elements . . . . . . . . . . 12
Single CD operating elements . . . . . . . 14
CD changer* operating elements. . . . . 16
Telephone operating elements . . . . . . 18
Navigation operating elements . . . . . . 20
Multifunction steering wheel . . . . . . . . 22
Selecting the multifunction display 23
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Quick reference COMAND . . . . . . . . . . 28
Switching ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Balance and fader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Sound functions* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Audio main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Opening the Audio main menu . . . . 34
Selectable soft keys . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Mute function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Switching to radio mode . . . . . . . . . 35
Switching wavebands . . . . . . . . . . 35
Tuning to a FM / AM station . . . . . 36
Tuning to a station on
Weather Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Storing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Single CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 42
Switching to Single CD mode . . . . . 43
Loading a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Ejecting a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Single CD main menu . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . 46
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47CD changer* operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 48
Switching to CD changer* mode . . 49
Accessing the CD changer* . . . . . . 49
Retracting the CD changer* . . . . . 49
Loading CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Ejecting CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
CD changer* main menu . . . . . . . . 54
Selecting CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Audio AUX operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

ContentsSatellite radio*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Introduction to Satellite radio . . . . . 62
Satellite radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Calling up the SAT main menu . . . . 63
Soft key functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Selecting a station . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Obtaining additional text
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Storing stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Calling the Sirius Service Center . . 68Telephone*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Telephone operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Switching the phone ON/OFF . . . . 73
911 emergency calls. . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Entering the PIN (only GSM) . . . . . 75
Entering the unlock code . . . . . . . . 76
Switching to telephone mode . . . . 76
Telephone main menu . . . . . . . . . . 77
Selectable soft keys and options . . 78
Incoming call. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Outgoing call / entering a phone
number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Accepted and missed calls . . . . . . . 80
Active call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Phone book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Opening the phone book. . . . . . . . . 85
Selecting a phone book entry and
establishing the connection . . . . . . 86
Deleting a phone book entry . . . . . 87
Adding a new phone book entry . . 87
SMS (Mail) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
SMS inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Reading a message . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Deleting a message . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Exiting from the SMS menu . . . . . . 91
Navigation*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Navigation DVD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Loading/ejecting the DVD . . . . . . . 95
Route guidance after vehicle
transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Determination of location after
vehicle transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Trip interruption during route
guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Selection lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Navigation main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Calling up the Navigation main
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Avoiding certain road types . . . . . . 99
Adjusting the acoustics for
navigation announcements . . . . . . . 99
Saving current location . . . . . . . . . 101
Destination entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Entering a destination . . . . . . . . . . 102
Enter Destination menu . . . . . . . . 103
Narrowing of the destination . . . . 104
Selecting the region . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Entering a city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Continuing destination entry
after selecting city . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Entering a city center . . . . . . . . . . 108
Entering a street in the
destination city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Continuing destination entry
after selecting street . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Entering an intersection . . . . . . . . 112
Entering a house number . . . . . . . 113
Destination input using the map . . 114

Contents
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Starting route guidance . . . . . . . . 116
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Route re-calculation . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Voice instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Navigation displays. . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Destination reached . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 120
During route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Showing soft key displays . . . . . . 121
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Displaying the route on the map . 122
Displaying the route list . . . . . . . . 123
Detour function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Stop-over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Storing the current location . . . . . 127
Defining route guidance displays . 127
Setting symbol displays . . . . . . . . 128
Setting map orientation . . . . . . . . 129
Switching GPS position display
ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Automatic map toggling . . . . . . . . 130
Scales for full-screen and
split-screen map display . . . . . . . . 131Last destinations and destination
memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 132
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 133
POIs (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Selecting POI in the local area
of the current location . . . . . . . . . 137
Selecting POI for a selected city. . 138
Selecting POI for a long-distance
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Selecting a POI using the map . . . 140
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Data entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Entry via Selection menu . . . . . . . 142
Entry via 12 button keypad. . . . . . 143
Tele Aid* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . 145
Roadside Assistance. . . . . . . . . . . 145
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Calling up the System menu . . . . . 148
Selectable soft keys . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Setting the date/time . . . . . . . . . . 148
Setting the language . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Switching confirmation beeps and
acoustic signals ON/OFF . . . . . . . 151
Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Voice control settings . . . . . . . . . . 152
Reset function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

13 At a glance
Radio operating elements
Function
Page
1
Audio main menu
34
2
Soft keys
(multifunction buttons)
3

- 
Entering frequency man-
ually
Storing stations
Requesting station pre-
sets
39
40
37
Function
Page
4
, , , 
Tuning stations FM / AM
Station memory,
selecting presets
36
40
5

Confirmation
6

Mute function
34
Function
Page
7

Switching ON/OFF
28
8


Volume adjustment
28
9
 and 
Station search
Manual tuning
36
38

15 At a glance
Single CD operating elements
Function
Page
1

Audio main menu
34
2
Soft keys
(multifunction buttons)
3
CD slot
44
4
 and

- 
Entering track numbers
46
Function
Page
5
 and 
Selecting tracks
45
6

Confirmation
7

CD ejection
44
Function
Page
8

Mute function
34
9

Switching ON/OFF
28
a


Volume adjustment
28
b
and 
Track skip reverse/
forward
Reverse/forward
45
46

17 At a glance
CD changer* operating elements
Function
Page
1

Audio main menu
34
2
Soft keys
(multifunction buttons)
3
 and

- 
Entering track numbers

- 
Selecting CDs
57
55
Function
Page
4
 and 
Selecting CDs
 and 
Selecting tracks
55
57
5

Confirmation
6

Mute function
34
Function
Page
7

Switching ON/OFF
28
8


Volume adjustment
28
9
and 
Track skip reverse/
forward
Reverse/forward
56
58

19 At a glance
Telephone* operating elements
Function
Page
1

Telephone main menu
Switching the telephone
ON
Switching the telephone
OFF
77
73
73
2
Soft keys
(multifunction buttons)
Function
Page
3

- 
Entering PIN
Entering unlock code
Entering phone number
Speed dial
75
76
79
82
4
, , , 
Selection buttons
5

Confirmation
Function
Page
6

Answering calls
Starting connection
Redialing
78
83
80
7

Terminating a call
79
8

Switching ON/OFF
28
9


Volume adjustment
28

21 At a glance
Navigation* operating elements
Function
Page
1

Navigation main menu
Cancelling route
guidance
98
120
2

Switching map display
120
3
Soft keys
(multifunction buttons)
4
, , , ,,

Selecting options
Selecting characters for
text entry
Scrolling map
Function
Page
5

Confirmation
6
Navigation computer
95
7
Navigation DVD slot
95
8

Cancelling navigation an-
nouncements
Switching navigation an-
nouncements OFF
117
117
Function
Page
9

Current navigation an-
nouncement
Switching navigation an-
nouncements ON
117
117
a

Ejecting navigation DVDs
95
b

Switching ON/OFF
28
c


Volume adjustment
28