205 If and when
Safety FirstControls and equipment Tips and Maintenance Technical Data
• Remove the rubber seal⇒ fig. 171Bon the eyelet upwards.
• Take the wheel spanner
⇒ fig. 171Cfrom the vehicle tools.
Place it as far as it will go over the bolt. Hold in this position and
press the locking ring
⇒ fig. 171Ddown.
• Turn the box spanner
Cto the left until it is supporting the
spare wheel, which issuspended from a steel cable
⇒ fig. 171.
• Squeeze the retainer lightly (arrows
1) and at the same time
fold the cross piece in the direction shown 2⇒ fig. 172. Now
guide the retainer through the central opening in the spare
wheel.
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Installing spare wheel
• Stand the wheel behind the vehicle, as shown in the fig. 173.• Guide the retainer from the inner side of the wheel through the
spare wheel central opening.
• Fold the cross piece in the opposite to arrow
⇒ fig. 1722.
• Push the spare wheel under the vehicle with the outer side facing
down.
• Turn the bolt in the luggage compartment floor clockwise with
the wheel spanner to lift the wheel into the spare wheel bracket
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• Turn the bolt (max. torque 25 Nm) until the spare wheel sits
firmly in the luggage compartment floor. Seal the opening with the
rubber seal and fold the cover back.
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If you need to drive without a spare wheel, the spare wheel bracket,
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General notes
• New tyres do not give maximum grip straight away and should
therefore be run in at moderate speeds and a careful style of
driving for about the first 100 km. This will help to make the tyres
last longer.
Fig. 173AL0-135
