What to do at the lights?

[Harrypic]

I'm Off for a drink

I'd join you but I dozed off

 

[HB]

I leave mine in D, ready for the kind of getaway I believe others around me will want to see.

It is, after all, an AMG model .

You're just a rather large show off ....

 

[MercedesDriver]

Leave it in D, press parking brake, switch off ESP, go to service menu choose Dino mode and at the first site of yellow release the parking brake and floor it.

 

[def90cars]

Option 1

Stop over thinking stuff.

 

[StuartK]

I changed my mind I've decided that I might be better:

1. Put in P
2. Turn engine off
3. Apply parking brake
4. Restart when lights are amber
5. Release parking brake
6. Put in D
7. Still beat most cars off the lights

 

[PXW]

I will have to try the hold feature as this sounds like the correct way to do it. Do you also have a parking brake if you have the hold feature?

Yes, parking brake is still there for when you actually park. But the hold feature just works with the foot brake- stop as normal, then give the pedal a little extra press, and the dashboard should say something like "hold". At that point you can take your foot off the pedals. If the engine has stop-start then it may even switch itself off as well - but to get going again, you just depress the accelerator pedal, the engine starts and the brake releases. It's the newer trouble free electronic version of the old SBC pump system that has caused a few issues on the original 211 series cars (up to about 2006, iirc).

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Leave it in drive, foot on the brake leaving both hands free to have a good old fashioned pick on my hooter. Then lower the window and flick the contents of my nose out like smokers do with their fag ends.

Then when the light turns green I thrash my foot on the gas, the engine revs, the wheels do not turn. I realise I'm in my manual transit van and not my auto car.

Ant

 

[renault12ts]

Leave it in D, press parking brake, switch off ESP, go to service menu choose Dino mode and at the first site of yellow release the parking brake and floor it.

Or...just press the brakes very hard, press the throttle to give about 3-4000 revs and when the orange light appears release the brake.

 

[Jimbo147]

So I do have the HOLD feature! I wonder how many other owners dont know about it. Seems to be exactly what i was after. That is why i love this forum, you just have to filter out the stupid replies. Many thanks for all the comments.

 

[renault12ts]

^ So much better (if a longer process) than reading the...

 

[Deleted member 65149]

So I do have the HOLD feature! I wonder how many other owners dont know about it.

Probably most of those who haven't bothered reading the driver's manual. MB have provided us with lots of useful gizmos and charged us plenty for them, I know it's not very manly to read the manual, but it's actually worth it to get the best out of your car.

 

[Piff]

Ah - the manual
2013 model E class only has half the information in the manual.
In the documents folder you get 2 discs labled 1/2 and 2/2 to load into Comand
So I thought I would try to answer a couple of questions yesterday - turns out the previous owner hadn't loaded the discs.
So I insert 1/2 and half an hour later it gets spat out. Then try to load 2/2. Five minutes later it asks me If I want to replace all the data from 1/2 with the same data from 2/2
I did manage to answer the questions though