Storing wheels
Stor ewheels that ar enot being used in acool,
dry and preferably dar kplace. Protect the
tyres against oil, grease, petrol and diesel. Cleaning the wheels
G
WARNING
The water jet of circular-jet nozzles (dirt grind-
ers) can cause damage not visible from the
outside to tyres or chassis components. Com-
ponent sdamaged in this way can unexpect-
edly fail. There is arisk of an accident.
Do not use high-pressure cleaners with circu-
lar-jet nozzles to clean the vehicle. Have dam-
aged tyres or chassis components replaced
immediately. Fitting
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Preparing the vehicle X
Vehi cles with an emergency spare
wheel: whenfitting the emergenc yspare
wheel in the even tofaflat tyre, observe the
addi tional note sonvehicl epreparation
under "Flat tyre" (Y page 378).
X Pa rk th evehicle on firm, non-slippery and
level ground.
X Unload heavy luggage.
X Engage the electric parking brak eman-
ually.
X Bring the front wheels into the straight-
ahead position.
X Shift the transmission to position P.
X Switch off the engine.
X Vehicles without KEYLESS-GO: remove
the key from the ignition lock.
X Vehicles with KEYLESS-GO: open the
driver' sdoor.
The on-boar delectronic shave status 0,
which is the same as the key having been
removed. X
Vehicles with KEYLESS-GO: remove the
Start/Stop button from the ignition lock
(Y page 159).
X If included in the vehicle equipment, take
the tyre-change tool kit out of the vehicle.
X Secure the vehicle to prevent it from rolling
away.
i Apart from some country-specific var-
iants, vehicles are not equipped with tyre-
changing tools .For mor einformation on
which tool sare require dtop erform awheel
change on your vehicle, consult a
Mercedes-Ben zService Centre.
Required tyre-cha nging tools could be, for
example:
R jack
R wheel chock
R wheel wrench
Securing the vehicle against rolling
away If your vehicle is equipped with
awheel choc k,
it can be found in the tyre-change tool kit
(Y page 377).
The folding wheel chock is an additional
securing measure to prevent the vehicle from
rolling away, for example when changing a
wheel.
X Fold both plates upwards :.
X Fold out lower plate ;.
X Guide the lugs on the lower plate fully into
the openings in base plate =. Changing
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405Wheels and tyres Z
