BMW 520D Manuale Utente

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material. Otherwise you could lose control of 
the car and cause an accident as a result.

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1 Maintaining and memorising speed, accel-

erating

2 Maintaining and memorising speed, decel-

erating

3 Interrupting cruise control
4 Recalling a speed

Press the lever as far as the pressure point, 
arrow 

1: 

The car's current speed is maintained and 
memorised. Display 

1 in the speedometer 

shows this controlled speed, see further below. 
Each time the lever is pressed, the speed 
increases by approx. 1 km/h or 1 mph.
Press the lever as far as the pressure point and 
hold it there: 
The car accelerates without the accelerator 
pedal being pressed. As soon as you release 
the lever, the speed the car has reached will be 
maintained and memorised.
Press the lever beyond the pressure point: 
Increase speed by 10 km/h or 5 mph.
If engine braking alone is insufficient on a down-
hill gradient, the set speed may be exceeded. It 
may also prove impossible to maintain speed 
with the available engine power on uphill gradi-
ents.

Pull the lever, arrow

2: 

Functions as 

1, except that the car's speed is 

reduced instead.

Press the lever upwards or downwards, 
arrow

3.

In addition, you interrupt the cruise control 
function automatically:

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When braking

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When you operate the clutch or engage 
automatic transmission/SMG position N

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When DSC has cut in

Press button

4: 

The memorised speed is recalled and main-
tained.

Whenever the ignition is switched off, the sys-
tem is deactivated and the speed stored in the 
memory is deleted.

1 Memorised speed
2 Selected speed is displayed briefly

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