Fitting
awheel
Preparing th evehicle X
Stop th evehicl eons olid, non-slippery and
leve lground.
X Apply th eelectric parking brak emanually.
X Mov ethe fron twheels to th estraight-ahead
position.
X Vehicles with manua
ltra nsmission:
depress th eclutch pedal fully and engage first
or revers egear.
X Vehicles with automatic transmission:
shif tthe automatic transmission to position
P.
X Mak esure that th evehicl eleve liss et to "Nor-
mal" on vehicles wit hAIRMATIC (Y page 195).
X Switc hoff th eengine.
X Vehicles without KEYLESS-GO: remove the
ke yf romt heignition lock.
X Vehicles with KEYLESS-GO start-function
or KEYLESS-GO: open thedriver' sdoor.
The on-board electronics no whave status 0.
This is th esam east hekeyh aving been
removed.
X Vehicles with KEYLESS-GO start-function
or KEYLESS-GO: remove theStart/Sto pbut-
to nf romt heignition loc k(Ypage 145).
X If included in th evehicl eequipment, remove
th et yre-chang etoolkit from th evehicle.
X Safeguar dthe vehicl eagainst rollin gaway.
i Apart from som
ecountry-specific variants,
vehicles are no tequipped wit htyre-changing
tools. Some tools for changing awhee lare
specific to th evehicle. Fo rmorei nformation
on whic htools are require dtoperforma
whee lcha ng eony our vehicle, consult aquali-
fie ds pecialist workshop.
Necessary tyre-changing tools may include,
for example:
R Jack
R Whee lchock
R Whee lwrench
R Centring pin Securing th
evehicle against rolling
away If your vehicl
eisequipped wit hawheelchock ,it
can be foun dinthetyre-chang etoolkit
(Y page 336).
The foldin gwhee lchock is an additional secur-
ing measure to safeguar dthe vehicl efromr oll-
ing away, for exampl ewhen changing awheel.
X Fold bot hplates upwards :.
X Fold out lower plate ;.
X Inser tthe lugs on th elower plat efully int othe
opening sinbase plate =. X
Plac echock soro ther suitable items under
th ef ront and rear of th ewhee ltha tisd iago-
nally opposit ethe whee lyou wish to change.
Raising th evehicle G
WARNING
If you do no tposition th ejackc orre ctly at the
appropriat ejackin gpointoft hevehicle, the
jac kc ould ti poverw itht he vehicl eraised.
Ther eisar iskofi njury.
Only position th ejac katt heappropriat ejack-
ing poin tofthevehicle. The base of th ejack 362
Changing
awheelWheels and ty res
