NOTICE
To help prevent vehicle damage, carefully remove and properly reinstall parts after emergency locking or unlocking.
Manually unlocking and locking the driver door
Fig. 328 Door handle on driver door: Concealed lock cylinder.
2. Switch off the engine, shift the transmission into Park (P) ⇒ Shifting. Then apply the parking brake
to help prevent the vehicle from moving ⇒ Braking and parking.
3. If towing a trailer: Unhitch the trailer from the vehicle and park the trailer properly.
4. Straighten the steering wheel so that the front wheels point straight forward.
5. Block the diagonally opposite wheel with chocks or other suitable things.
6. Loosen the wheel bolts of the wheel to be changed ⇒ Wheel bolts.
7. Remove the scissors jack and tools from the vehicle.
8. Inset the extension ⇒ fig. 340 (A) into the scissors jack (B) Attach the crank (C) to the extension (A).
9. Find the jack lift point ⇒ fig. 340 on the vehicle frame that is closest to the wheel to be changed.
10. Crank up the jack so that it still just fits underneath the lift point.
11. Position the jack so that its base is directly underneath the lift point ⇒ fig. 341, making sure that the entire base of the jack rests securely on the ground.
12. Align the jack and wind up the jack claw at the same time, until the claw cradles the rib underneath
the vehicle ⇒ fig. 341 A or B.
13. Continue cranking up the jack until the wheel is just a little off the ground.
WARNING
Using the wrong jack to raise a vehicle with side steps, extended door sills, additional deco-rative trim or other enhancements in the area of the lower side sills can cause the vehicle to fall off the jack and result in serious personal injury.
x Never use the standard jack supplied with unmodified vehicles to raise the vehicle. The side step can interfere with the jack when raising the vehicle.
x Always use the scissor vehicle jack supplied with the authorized side step package when the vehicle must be jacked up, for example, to change a tire.
