Mercedes Benz CITARO (G) Operating Instructions Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD
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Mercedes Benz CITARO (G) Operating Instructions Manual – PDF DOWNLOAD
Vehicle identification . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
General safety information . . . . . . . . 6
Windscreen wiper system safety
instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Operation of auxiliary heating . . . . . 10
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Preparation for the journey – daily
tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Preparation for the journey – weekly
tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
General bus care and maintenance
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Care and cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Running-in guideline . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Stopping the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Towing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Front towing coupling . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Rear towing coupling (option) . . . . . 25
Brake system safety precautions . . . 26
Braking and stopping . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Brakes with anti-locking protection
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Brake pressure/supply pressure
(operating pressure) . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Brake system operating/malfunction
displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Activating/deactivating acceleration
skid control (ASR) (option) . . . . . . . 30
Operating/malfunction displays
ABS/ASR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Disabling retarder activation by brake
pedal (option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Retarder direct (customer option)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Interrupting the natural gas supply
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Switching off the on-board power
supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Refuelling buses with filler valve in
the engine compartment . . . . . . . . 36
Refuelling buses with filler valve
behind side flap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Function of the accident data
recorder (ADR) (option) . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anti-jackknifing protection during
forward travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anti-jackknifing protection during
reverse travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Stop request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Ramp request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Safety precautions for the operation
of folding/cassette ramps, various
lift models (options) . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Folding the ramp in/out . . . . . . . . . 45
Pulling out/sliding in the platform
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Retracting/extending the electric
cassette ramp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Opening the hinged window . . . . . . 52
Care and cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Tilting the rear seats . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Care and cleaning of covers and
upholstery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Care/cleaning of fabric covers . . . . 55
Care/cleaning of micro-fibre
covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Care/cleaning of leather covers . . . . 58
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At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Overview of vehicle key . . . . . . . . . 62
Driver’s area overview . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Switches on the left section of the
instrument panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Switches on the right section of the
instrument panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Side panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Instrument cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
MTCO tachograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
DTCO tachograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Tachograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Location of emergency equipment
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Windscreen washer fluid reservoir
installation location . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Driver’s area controls . . . . . . . . . . 85
Rotary light switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Left steering column switch: light
and signal functions . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Left steering column switch: wiper
and wash functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Steering column switch for retarder
and cruise control (option) . . . . . . . 90
Ignition switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Parking brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Master safety switch (emergency-off
switch) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Overview of indicator lamps . . . . . . 96
Screen: Description . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Operating displays/driving mode/bus
stop mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Continuation: Bus stop mode . . . . 108
Malfunction displays: Description
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Malfunction displays: Red warning
level – description . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Malfunction displays: Red warning
level – overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Malfunction displays: Yellow
warning level A – description . . . . . 114
Malfunction displays: Yellow
warning level A – overview . . . . . . . 116
Malfunction displays: Yellow
warning level B – description . . . . . 118
Malfunction displays: Yellow
warning level B – overview . . . . . . . 120
Malfunction displays: Warning level
C – description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Malfunction displays: Warning level
C – overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Calling up/selecting/permanently
displaying operating displays . . . . . 123
Selecting the language on the
screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Vehicle manoeuvrability when the
air suspension is depressurised . . . 126
Lowering/raising the bus on the
entry side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Raising the bus above normal
level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Applying the parking brake . . . . . . 131
Releasing the parking brake . . . . . 132
Emergency braking in the event of
failure of both brake circuits . . . . . 133
Activating/deactivating the bus
stop brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Drive-off lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Important notes on the steering
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Adjusting the steering wheel . . . . . 137
Turning the steering wheel when
the bus is stationary . . . . . . . . . . . 138
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Opening/closing the driver’s
window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Switching the mirror and window
heating on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Switching the windscreen heating
(option) on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Driver’s seat/passenger
seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Important notes on the driver’s
seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Grammer MSG 90.5 driver’s seat
control elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Using the driver’s seat belt . . . . . . 148
Transmission shift systems . . . . 149
Automatic transmission – general
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Selector positions of the 3-
pushbutton switch panel . . . . . . . . 151
Selector positions of the 6-
pushbutton switch panel . . . . . . . . 153
Heating/ventilation/air-conditioning
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Safety instructions for the airconditioning
system . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Operating instructions for the airconditioning
system . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Heating/ventilation/air-conditioning
control panel – driver’s area . . . . . . 160
Heating/ventilation/air-conditioning
control panel – whole bus . . . . . . . 162
Driver’s area – setting the air
distribution/demisting the windscreen
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Driver’s area – adjusting the
temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Driver’s area – adjusting the blower
speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Driver’s area – cooling . . . . . . . . . . 166
Additional driver’s area ventilation
(option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Switching air-recirculation mode on
and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Passenger compartment – switching
automatic temperature regulation
on and off – code HH2/HK1 . . . . . 168
Passenger compartment – switching
automatic temperature regulation
on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Switching the auxiliary heating on
and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Switching the reheat function on
and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Passenger-compartment temperature
– changing the base
value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Opening the roof hatches . . . . . . . 176
Fans on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Switching fans on and off – code
HH2/HK1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Auxiliary heating digital timer
(option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Auxiliary heating operation (option)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Opening/locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Protection against entrapment in
the door opening direction . . . . . . 189
Protection against entrapment in
the door closing direction . . . . . . . 189
Emergency operation – doors . . . . . 190
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Forced door closure in an emergency
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Opening/closing door 1 from the
outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Locking/unlocking the door leaves
from the outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Opening/closing door 1 from the
outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Opening/closing door 1 from the
outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Locking door 1 with the key
(option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Locking/unlocking the door leaves
from the inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Opening/closing the doors from the
inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Opening/closing automatic doors
from the inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Opening/closing automatic doors
from the outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Opening/closing automatic
doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Switching between automatic and
manual door operation . . . . . . . . . 205
Teaching in the doors in the closing
and opening directions . . . . . . . . . 207
Pushchair stop request . . . . . . . . . 211
Practical advice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Safety instructions for working in
the engine compartment . . . . . . . . 216
Engine oil level: oil level information
on the screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Operating safety and roadworthiness
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Tyre pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Tyre tread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Tyre condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Tyre age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Invisible tyre damage . . . . . . . . . . 221
Tyre load capacity, top speed of
tyres and types of tyres . . . . . . . . 221
Retreaded tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Cleaning the tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Retightening the wheel nuts . . . . . 222
Wheel nut tightening torques . . . . . 223
Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Tyre pressures table . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Safety measures to be taken in
the event of a flat tyre or a wheel
change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Jacking points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Jacking points, front . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Jacking points, centre (articulated
buses only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Jacking points, rear . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Emergency release of the drive-off
lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Parking brake emergency release
(option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Electrical system safety precautions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
General safety precautions for
batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Safety precautions for the handling
of batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Battery maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Recharging the batteries . . . . . . . . 236
Working on the electrical system
and electrical fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Measures required for the prevention
of damage to buses or
components during electric welding
work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Switching the on-board power
supply on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Switching off the on-board power
supply at the master safety
switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
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Jump-starting where vehicle batteries
are mounted one above the
other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Jump-starting where vehicle
batteries are mounted side by
side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Jump-starting buses equipped with
a battery charging socket . . . . . . . 246
Opening the emergency exit in the
roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Folding out and folding in headlamps
or bumper corner pieces . . . 249
Note on maintenance work . . . . . . 251
Cleaning the underbody . . . . . . . . 251
Technical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Vehicle data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
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