- Fig. 1 Steering wheel: Manual gear selection
Applies to vehicles: with S tronic gearbox and paddle levers
The paddle levers behind the steering wheel enable the driver to change gears manually.
Briefly pull the left-hand paddle lever -–- to change down to a lower gear.
Briefly pull the right-hand paddle lever -+- to change up to a higher gear.
The paddle levers are activated when the selector lever is in position D/S, or the position for the manual shift programme (tiptronic).
The manual shift programme can, of course, still be operated using the selector lever in the centre console.
Note
When the selector lever is in position D or S, the system switches back to automatic mode if no paddle lever is operated within a certain period of time or the speed drops below 10 km/h.