Lights and windshield wipers, Useful information, Exterior lighting – Mercedes-Benz 2013 GL Class User Manual

Page 124: Important safety notes, Driving abroad, Setting the exterior lighting, Useful information exterior lighting

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Useful information

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This Operator's Manual describes all

models and all standard and optional
equipment of your vehicle available at the
time of publication of the Operator's
Manual. Country-specific differences are
possible. Please note that your vehicle may
not be equipped with all features
described. This also applies to safety-
related systems and functions.

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Read the information on qualified

specialist workshops: (

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page 27).

Exterior lighting

Important safety notes

For reasons of safety, Mercedes-Benz
recommends that you drive with the lights
switched on even during the daytime. In some
countries, operation of the headlamps varies
due to legal requirements and self-imposed
obligations.

Driving abroad

Conversion to symmetrical low beam

Switch the headlamps to symmetrical low
beam in countries in which traffic drives on
the opposite side of the road from the country
where the vehicle is registered. This prevents
glare to oncoming traffic. When using
symmetrical lights, the edge of the road is not
lit as widely and as far ahead as normal.
Have the headlamps converted at a qualified
specialist workshop as close to the border as
possible before driving in these countries.

Conversion to asymmetrical low beam

after returning

Have the headlamps converted back to
asymmetrical low-beam headlamps at a
qualified specialist workshop as soon as
possible after crossing the border again.

Setting the exterior lighting

Setting options

Exterior lighting can be set using the:

R

light switch

R

combination switch (

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page 125)

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the on-board computer (

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page 276)

Light switch

Operation

1W

Left-hand standing lamps

2X

Right-hand standing lamps

3T

Parking lamps, license plate and
instrument cluster lighting

Automatic headlamp mode,
controlled by the light sensor

5L

Low-beam/high-beam headlamps

BR

Rear fog lamp

If you hear a warning tone when you leave the
vehicle, the lights may still be switched on.

X

Turn the light switch to Ã.

The exterior lighting (except the parking/
standing lamps) switches off automatically if
you:

R

remove the SmartKey from the ignition lock

R

open the driver's door with the SmartKey
in position

0.

Automatic headlamp mode

G

WARNING

If the light switch is set to à and it is foggy,
snowing or there is poor visibility, the low-

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