4 8 Openin g and clo sing
- As soon as the electrical connec t ion to
the trailer socket is completed on
vehicles with a factory installed towing
hitch, or a trailer hitch that was installed
later according to factory specifications,
the automatic rear lid function can only
be operated via the handle in the rear lid.
Rear lid emergency unlocking
If the rear lid cannot be opened, an emergen-
cy release is provided .
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Fig. 4 1 Section of the luggage compartment : Access to
emerge ncy release
Fig. 42 Section of the luggage compartment: Emer-
gency release
,.. Tilt the seatback forward .
,.. Move into the t runk.
,.. Take the screwdriver from the veh icle t ool
kit. As an alternat ive, you can a lso use the
vehicle key.
• Put the flat side of the screw driver into the
recess and pry the cover up
o fig. 41 -Arrow-.
• Press the lever in the direction of the arrow
o fig . 42 to unlock the rear lid.
Child safety lock
Power child safety lock for the rear
doors
The power child safety lock t prevents the
rear doors from being opened from the in-
side .
Fig. 43 Section from driver's door: controls
The rear doors are eq uipped with a power
child safety lock.
It is operated with the two
safety buttons III in the dr iver's door o fig. 43.
• Press the left and/or right safety button to
disab le the rear power window(s) and pre-
vent the respective rear door from being
opened from the inside. The LED in the but-
ton will light up when the child safety lock is
turned
on .
,.. Press the illum inated button again to turn
the child safety featu res off .
When the child safety lock is activated, the in-
te rior door opening lever is inoperative; the
doo r can only be opened from th e outside. In
addition, the window reg ulator for that doo r
is also inoperative when the child safety lock
is activa t ed.
If the child safety loc k has been activated on
one or both sides, the butto ns in the rear for
the Panoramic slid ing su nroof* are disabled .
If the ch ild safety lock has been act ivated on
the left
and on the right side, the rear con-
tro ls are locked on veh icles with rear a ir-condi-
tion ing*. Dashes" ••• " are show n in t he dis-
plays for the rear climate contro ls, and the
rear air-conditioning can on ly be operated
from the climate controls in the cabin
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