2007 MERCEDES-BENZ SLK-Class display

Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Where to find it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Operating safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Radio operating elements . . . . . . . . . . 12
Single CD operating elements . . . . . . . 14
MP3 operating elements . . . . . . . . . . . 16
CD changer* operating elements. . . . . 18
Satellite Radio* operating elements . . 20
Telephone* operating elements . . . . . 22
Navigation* operating elements . . . . . 24
Multifunction steering wheel . . . . . . . . 26
Selecting the multifunction display 27
Audio search function. . . . . . . . . . . 28
Menu system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Quick reference COMAND . . . . . . . . . . 31
Switching COMAND ON/OFF . . . . . 31
Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Bass and treble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Sound functions* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Audio main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Calling up the Audio main menu . . . 38
Mute function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Radio operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Switching to Radio mode . . . . . . . . 40
Switching wavebands . . . . . . . . . . 40
Tuning to a FM/AM station . . . . . . 41
Tuning to a station on Weather
Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Storing FM/AM stations . . . . . . . . . 46
Single CD operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 48
Switching to Single CD mode . . . . . 48
Loading a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Ejecting a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Single CD main menu . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . 52
Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53MP3 operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Tips on data storage media . . . . . . 54
Tips on caring for your MP3 CDs . . 55
Tips on creating MP3 CDs . . . . . . . 55
Tips on creating MP3 tracks . . . . . 56
Tips on copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Switching to MP3 mode . . . . . . . . . 57
Loading a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Ejecting a MP3 CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
MP3 main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Selecting folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Fast forward/reverse . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Playback options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
CD changer* operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Tips on caring for your CDs . . . . . . 64
Switching to CD changer mode . . . 64
MP3 CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Loading CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Ejecting CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
CD changer main menu . . . . . . . . . 69

Contents
Selecting the region . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Entering a city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Narrowing of the destination
after selecting a city . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Entering a city center . . . . . . . . . . 121
Entering a street in the
destination city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Narrowing of the destination
after selecting a street . . . . . . . . . 124
Entering an intersection . . . . . . . . 124
Entering a house number . . . . . . . 125
Entering a destination using the
map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Entering a destination via geo
coordinates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Storing map locations. . . . . . . . . . 130
Route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Starting route guidance menu . . . 131
Route calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Route re-calculation . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Navigation announcements . . . . . 132
Navigation displays. . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Destination reached . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Cancelling route guidance . . . . . . 135
Partially digitized areas. . . . . . . . . 135
Off-road and off-map . . . . . . . . . . 137During route guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Showing soft key displays . . . . . . 139
Info menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Displaying the route on the map . 140
Displaying the route list . . . . . . . . 141
Detour function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Stop-over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Defining route guidance displays . 146
Setting symbols display . . . . . . . . 147
Setting map orientation . . . . . . . . 148
Map display menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Automatic map toggling . . . . . . . . 149
Scales for full-screen and
split-screen map display . . . . . . . . 150
Last destinations and
destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Last destinations memory . . . . . . 151
Destination memory . . . . . . . . . . . 152
POIs (Points of Interest) . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Entering POIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Selecting POI in the local area of
the current position . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Selecting POI for a selected city. . 157
Selecting POI for a long-distance
destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Selecting a POI using the map . . . 159
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Tele Aid*. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Emergency call system . . . . . . . . . 162
Roadside Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
System settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Calling up the System menu . . . . . 166
Setting the date/time . . . . . . . . . . 166
Setting the language . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Switching confirmation beeps and
acoustic signals ON/OFF . . . . . . . 168
Display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Reset function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

8 Introduction
Symbols
The following symbols are used in this
Operator’s Manual:* The asterisk identifies optional
equipment. Since not all models
have the same standard equip-
ment, your COMAND system’s
equipment may deviate from
some descriptions and illustra-
tions.
This symbol points to instruc-
tions for you to follow.
A number of these symbols ap-
pearing in succession indicates
a multiple-step procedure.
 This continuation symbol marks
an interrupted procedure which
will be continued on the next
page.
page This symbol tells you where to
look for further information on
this subject.
->This symbol is used in the glos-
sary. It indicates that the term
immediately following the sym-
bol is also explained in the glos-
sary.
Display Words appearing on the
COMAND display or the multi-
function display are printed in
the type shown here.
WarningG
Warning notices draw your attention to haz-
ards that may endanger your health or life,
or the health or life of others.
!
Highlights hazards that may result in
damage to your COMAND.
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Helpful hints or further information you
may find useful.

25 At a glance
Navigation* operating elements
FunctionPage
1 4
Navigation main menu
Cancelling route
guidance
112
135
2 5
Switching map display
134
3 Soft keys
(multifunction buttons)
4 #, $, %, &, 6,7
8
Selecting options
Selecting characters for
text entry
Scrolling map
FunctionPage
5 '
Confirmation
6Navigation computer109
7Navigation DVD slot109
8 (
Switching navigation
announcements OFF
132
9 9
Current navigation
announcement
Switching navigation
announcements ON
132
132
FunctionPage
a :7
Ejecting navigation DVDs
109
b )
Switching COMAND
ON/OFF
31
c *
Volume adjustment
31

26 At a glance
Multifunction steering wheel
FunctionPage
1 Multifunction display
FunctionPage
2 Volume setting:
æ Volume up
ç Volume down
31
31
3 Making calls:
s
Answering calls
Starting connection
Redialing
t
Ending or refusing calls
Entering a phone num-
ber:
t
Deleting the entire entry
94
99
95
94
95
4 Radio mode:
j Next station:
via station search
via station presets
41
42
FunctionPage
4 Radio mode:
k Previous station:
via station search
via station presets
41
42
4 Single CD, MP3 and CD
changer* mode:
j Next track
k Previous track
72
72
4Satellite radio* mode:
j Next station
k Previous station
83
83
4Telephone* mode:
j Next list entry
k Previous list entry
98
98
5 Multifunction display
menu change:
è forward
ÿ back
27
27

27 At a glance
Multifunction steering wheel
You can switch the multifunction display to
the respective operating mode if you wish
to operate the system using the buttons on
the multifunction steering wheel.
On the multifunction steering wheel,
pressè or ÿ repeatedly until
Radio, Single CD, MP3, CD changer*,
Satellite radio* or Telephone* display
appears in the multifunction display of
the instrument cluster.
Radio operation
1Waveband and position in Preset menu
2Station frequencySingle CD operation
1Single CD operation
2Current track
CD changer* operation
1Current CD
2Current trackMP3 operation
1MP3 operation
2Current track
Selecting the multifunction display
i
Depending on vehicle production date
COMAND may not be equipped with
the MP3 functionality. If so, the CD
changer* may be used for playback of
MP3 CDs.

28 At a glance
Multifunction steering wheel
Satellite radio* operation
1SAT and position in Preset menu
2Channel name
Telephone* operation
If a telephone has been installed, either the
main display or a list appears.
Telephone main display
1Telephone operation
2Telephone network informationIn the list screen, instead of the telephone
network information, either a phone book
entry or one of the last 10 outgoing calls
will be displayed.
In order to close the list display,
presst
.
This switches to the telephone main
display.
The following functions are available:
Freq. function:
You can tune to stations via the station
search (
page 41).
Memory function:
You can tune to stations via the station
presets (
page 42).
Setting audio search function
On the multifunction steering wheel,
pressè or ÿ repeatedly until
the
Settings... menu appears in the
multifunction display in the instrument
cluster.
Pressj and switch to the submenu
options.
Press æ or ç and select the
Vehicle menu.
Pressj and select Audio Search
Function
.
By pressing æ or ç, select Freq.
or
Memory.
Audio search functioni
Memory is set at the factory.

29 At a glance
Menu system

Menu system
The menu system allows for easy opera-
tion of COMAND.
Each of the following main functions has a
main menu:
Audio
(Radio, Single CD, MP3, CD changer*
and AUX mode)
Satellite radio*
Telephone*
Navigation*
Service
Opening main menus
Audio (page 38):
Press -.
Satellite radio* (page 77):
Press ;.
Telephone* (page 92):
Press 1.
Navigation* (page 112):
Press 4.
Service (page 161):
Press <.
Menu display
A display can be composed of 3 sections.
Example: Radio main menu
1Soft key sections
2Main area
3Status bar
The functions currently assigned to the
soft keys are displayed in the soft key sec-
tions 1.Messages or settings are displayed in the
main area 2.
The settings can be changed by operating
controls accordingly.
The status bar 3 is divided into three ar-
eas.
Left side:
The selected operating mode is given. In
this example: Radio
Center:
Indication of the selected operating mode.
In this example:
FM = selected waveband
1 = selected station is stored on
preset 1
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A maximum of five soft keys may be
displayed on each side of the main area
2.