Mercedes-Benz TRAVEGO User manual

Introduction
The user information supplied with
each bus is intended for use only
by persons who are qualified to
operate the bus. The user
information is split into the
following parts:
The Driver's Operating Instructions
are intended to answer all import-
ant questions concerning operation
of the bus in a concise and clearly
understandable manner.
More detailed and complete inform-
ation, as well as further information
relevant to safety, can be found in
the Operating Instructions.
The Maintenance Record serves as
a guide to the technical care of the
bus. It contains all the information
on maintenance intervals and main-
tenance tasks as well as pages for
confirming that the maintenance
work has been carried out.
Please consult the “Safety” section be-
fore starting up the bus for the first
time, and familiarise yourself with the
contents of these Operating Instructions
before setting off.
Items of optional equipment are also de-
scribed, if their operation needs explana-
tion. The bus delivered to you has been
customised in accordance with your or-
der, therefore some descriptions and
diagrams may differ from the equipment
on your bus.
The Driver's Operating Instructions, the
Operating Instructions and the Mainten-
ance Record are important documents
and must always be carried in the bus.
Our buses are the subject of ongoing
development. You are therefore asked
to appreciate that we reserve the right
to make modifications to the design,
equipment and technical features. For
these reasons, no claims can be made
based upon the contents of this user
information.
Environmental protection
The declared policy of EvoBus GmbH
is one of integrated environmental pro-
tection. This policy starts at the root
causes and encompasses in its manage-
ment decisions all the consequences for
the environment which could arise from
production processes or the products
themselves.
The objectives are for the natural re-
sources which form the basis of our ex-
istence on this planet to be used spar-
ingly and in a manner which takes the
requirements of both nature and human-
ity into account.
Operate your vehicle in an environment-
ally responsible manner and you will help
to protect the environment. Fuel con-
sumption and wear in the drive train (en-
gine, clutch, transmission, axles, brakes,
tyres) are extremely dependent on your
driving style.
We hope you enjoy driving your bus.
EvoBus GmbH

Mercedes-Benz Omnibusse

Table of contents
Vehicle identification . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Safety....................... 3
General safety information . . . . . . . . 4
Fire-prevention measures . . . . . . . . . 9
Storage space for hand luggage . . . . . 9
Driver's rest area safety precau-
tions ....................... 10
Windscreen wiper system safety
precautions .................. 10
Safety precautions for the air-
conditioning system . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Operation of auxiliary heating . . . . . 11
General..................... 13
Preparation for the journey - daily
tasks....................... 14
Preparation for the journey - weekly
tasks....................... 15
Additional maintenance tasks
dependent on bus use . . . . . . . . . . 16
General bus care and mainten-
ance ....................... 16
Care and cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Operation ................... 19
Running-in guideline . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Driving...................... 24
Stopping the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Towing...................... 26
Trailer towing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Loading a trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Driving with a trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Ball hitch trailer coupling (fixed)
(option) ..................... 31
Ball hitch trailer coupling and
open-jaw trailer coupling (detachable)
(option) ..................... 31
Connecting the power supply . . . . . 32
Trailer coupling maintenance . . . . . . 32
Refuelling (diesel fuel) . . . . . . . . . . . 32
BlueTec® exhaust gas cleaning
system ..................... 34
AdBlue® service product . . . . . . . . 36
Filling with AdBlue® . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Diesel particulate filter . . . . . . . . . . 40
Diesel particulate filter regenera-
tion ........................ 42
Starting regeneration of the diesel
particulate filter manually (parked
regeneration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Function description: accident data
recorder (ADR) (option) . . . . . . . . . . 46
Brake system safety precautions . . . 47
Emergency braking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Braking and stopping . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Brakes with anti-locking protec-
tion ........................ 48
Applying the parking brake . . . . . . . 49
Releasing the parking brake . . . . . . 50
Emergency braking in the event of
failure of both brake circuits . . . . . . 51
EBS brake system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Acceleration skid control (ASR) . . . . 52
BrakeAssist.................. 53
Adaptive brake lamps . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Electronic Stability Program (ESP)
(system description) . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Electronic Stability Program (ESP)
(function description) . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Deactivating acceleration skid control
(ASR)/Electronic Stability Program
(ESP)....................... 57
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Operating 230/400 V systems
(option) ..................... 58
Fitting the skibox (option) . . . . . . . . 59
Swivelling the skibox (option) . . . . . 60
Additional operating instructions for
the skibox (option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Note on maintenance work . . . . . . . 62
Care and cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Cleaning the headlamp plastic cover
lenses ...................... 64
Care/cleaning of light-alloy
wheels...................... 65
Care and cleaning of covers,
upholstery and ceiling . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Care/cleaning of fabric covers . . . . 66
Care/cleaning of micro-fibre
covers ...................... 68
Care/cleaning of leather covers . . . . 70
Ataglance.................. 73
Driver's area overview . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Switches on the left section of the
instrument panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Switches on the right section of the
instrument panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Switches below the driver's win-
dow........................ 84
Instrument cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
DTCO tachograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Tachograph (display) . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Door pushbuttons in the driver's
area ....................... 90
Tools and emergency equipment . . . 91
Location of the fire extinguish-
ers ........................ 92
Location of the first-aid kits . . . . . . 92
Tow bar location (option) . . . . . . . . 93
Location of spare mirror (option) . . . 93
Reversing aid display in the exterior
mirror (option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Emergency hammer (option) . . . . . . 95
Driver's rest area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Windscreen washer reservoir . . . . . . 98
Seat belt reminder display . . . . . . . . 99
Exterior flaps on the TRAVEGO M /
L......................... 100
Layout and function descrip-
tion: fire extinguishing system
(option) .................... 101
Operating and malfunction dis-
plays: fire extinguishing system
(option) .................... 102
Driver's area controls . . . . . . . . . 105
Ignition lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Adjustable steering column . . . . . . 109
Exterior lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Steering column switch for light
and wiper functions . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Steering column switch for
transmission shift system and
continuous brake (engine brake and
retarder) ................... 114
Steering wheel buttons . . . . . . . . . 115
Overview of steering wheel buttons
and display screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Left-hand steering wheel but-
tons ...................... 118
Right-hand steering wheel but-
tons ...................... 120
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Display screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Display screen (description) . . . . . . 123
Main menu screen display . . . . . . . 124
Menu structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Display screen menu control
logic ...................... 143
Event notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Resetting the trip meter . . . . . . . . 146
Volume adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Radio volume adjustment . . . . . . . 147
Adjusting the volume of the
passenger-compartment on-board
PAsystem .................. 149
Adjusting the volume of the in-
tercom in the driver's rest area/
on-board kitchenette . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Telephone volume adjustment . . . . 150
Initiating an outgoing call using
the driver's rest area/kitchenette
intercom (option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Initiating an outgoing call using the
driver's area intercom (option) . . . . 152
Answering an incoming call us-
ing the driver's area intercom
(option) .................... 154
Mobile phone Bluetooth link . . . . . 155
Initiating an outgoing call using a
mobile phone (option) . . . . . . . . . . 156
Answering an incoming call using a
mobile phone (option) . . . . . . . . . . 158
Parking brake and emergency
release device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Air suspension safety precau-
tions ...................... 160
Raising/lowering the bus . . . . . . . 161
Normallevel................. 162
Activating/deactivating axle load
transfer for trailing axle (3-axle
busesonly) ................. 163
Activating/deactivating the bus
stopbrake .................. 164
Important information on the
steering system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Turning the steering wheel when
the bus is stationary . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Switching on the panorama camera
(option) .................... 166
Switch descriptions . . . . . . . . . . 167
Master safety switch (emergency-off
switch) (national variant) . . . . . . . . 170
Windscreen roller sunblind pushbut-
ton ....................... 171
Co-driver's roller sunblind pushbut-
ton ....................... 171
Pushbutton for windscreen heat-
ing (option)/driver's window
heating+mirror heating . . . . . . . . . 171
Pushbutton for upper wiper
(option)/headlamp cleaning
system .................... 172
Inverter (option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Kitchenette/attendant call enabling
pushbutton (option) . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Lavatory/multichannel audio sys-
tem enabling switch (option) . . . . . 173
Video system/reversing camera
washer system switch (option) . . . 173
Active Brake Assist OFF pushbutton
(option) .................... 173
Lane assistant warning system
pushbutton (option) . . . . . . . . . . . 174
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Acceleration skid control (ASR)
OFF/Electronic Stability Program
(ESP) pushbutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Switch for deactivating pedal-
activated continuous braking . . . . . 174
Axle load transfer switch (3-axle
busesonly) ................. 175
“School bus operation” pushbutton
(option) .................... 175
Reverse warning signal (option)/air
hornON ................... 175
Emergency switch for alcohol
interlock ................... 176
Central locking pushbutton for the
left-side luggage compartment . . . . 176
Central locking pushbutton for
the right-side luggage compart-
ment ...................... 176
Front roof hatch pushbutton - air
in/airout................... 177
Rear roof hatch pushbutton - air
in/airout................... 177
Driver's power window pushbut-
ton ....................... 178
Diesel particulate filter (DPF)
regeneration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Driver's seat microphone switch
(option) .................... 179
Bus stop brake emergency release
switch (option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Door I pushbutton . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Door II pushbutton . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Emergency valve reset pushbutton
(option) .................... 180
Hazard warning lamps pushbut-
ton ....................... 180
Normal level/kneeling pushbut-
ton ....................... 181
Pushbutton for raising/lowering the
bus ....................... 181
Hillholder and bus stop brake . . . . 181
Auxiliary batteries pushbutton
(option) ................... 182
Steering column adjustment
switch ..................... 183
Driver's area lighting switch . . . . . 183
Reading lamps switch . . . . . . . . . . 183
Bus stop brake pushbutton (option)
.......................... 184
Passenger-compartment lighting
switch positions I+II . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Night lighting switch . . . . . . . . . . . 185
ADR pushbutton (option) . . . . . . . . 185
Driver’s seat/passenger
seats ..................... 187
Driver’s seat safety precau-
tions ...................... 188
Grammer driver’s seat control
elements ................... 190
ISRI 6860/875 driver's seat
controls (option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Operation of the jump seat . . . . . . 194
Adjusting a passenger seat . . . . . . 195
Removing a seat squab . . . . . . . . . 196
Fitting a seat squab . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Using the driver's seat belt . . . . . . 196
Operating the jump-seat seat
belt ....................... 197
Passenger-compartment-seating
seatbelt ................... 197
Passenger seat service set . . . . . . 198
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Transmission shift systems . . . . 201
Transmission shift system safety
precautions ................. 202
Operating the PSH (pneumatic shift
aid) transmission shift system . . . . 202
Transmission shift system safety
precautions ................. 203
Transmission shift system GO
250-8 (system description) . . . . . . 204
Selector lever of GO 250-8
transmission shift system . . . . . . . 206
Operating the GO 250-8 PowerShift
transmission shift system . . . . . . . 207
Operating the GO 250-8 PowerShift
failsafe mode with the steering
wheel keypad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Driving systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Driving systems (overview) . . . . . . 224
Automatic speed limiter, gener-
al ........................ 225
Automatic speed limiter . . . . . . . . 225
Variable speed limiter (Tem-
poset) ..................... 226
Overview of variable speed limiter
(Temposet) controls . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Activating the variable speed limiter
(Temposet).................. 229
Combined drive/brake cruise
control..................... 232
Overview of cruise control con-
trols ...................... 234
Activating drive/brake cruise
control..................... 235
Setting the speed tolerance in
overrun mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Distance cruise control (option) . . . 239
Distance sensor for distance cruise
control (ART) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Overview of distance cruise control
(ART) controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Function description: distance
cruise control (ART) . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Activating distance cruise control
(ART) (option) while the bus is in
motion .................... 245
Activating distance cruise control
(ART) while the bus is station-
ary (only with stop-and-go assist
(option)).................... 248
Setting the specified distance . . . . 250
Vehicle ahead detected . . . . . . . . . 251
How to respond to a distance
warning .................... 252
Operating displays: distance cruise
control..................... 253
Active Brake Assist (ABA) (system
description) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Activation/deactivation of Active
Brake Assist (automatic) . . . . . . . . 255
Deactivating Active Brake Assist
(ABA) (manually) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Sequence of events when emer-
gency braking initiated by Active
Brake Assist (ABA) . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Function description: warning levels
and emergency braking . . . . . . . . . 259
Operating/malfunction displays:
Active Brake Assist (ABA) . . . . . . . 263
Special driving situations with dis-
tance cruise control/Active Brake
Assist ..................... 266
Important information on the
lane assistant warning system
(option) .................... 270
Warning display if lane marking
crossed .................... 272
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Deactivating the lane assistant
warning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Attention Assist - system descrip-
tion ....................... 273
Attention Assist - function descrip-
tion ....................... 273
Heating/ventilation/air-condi-
tioning .................... 277
Operating instructions for the air-
conditioning system . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Heating/ventilation/air-conditioning
(HVAC) control panel . . . . . . . . . . 280
Manually regulating the blower
speed in the driver's area . . . . . . . 283
Preselecting the passenger-
compartment temperature . . . . . . . 284
Manually regulating the blower
speed in the passenger compart-
ment ...................... 285
Activating the air-conditioning . . . . 286
Switching on air-recirculation mode
in the driver's area and passenger
compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Activating the reheat function . . . . 288
Activating the auxiliary heating
unit ....................... 288
Programming auxiliary heating
switch-on times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Activating a programmed auxiliary
heating switch-on time . . . . . . . . . 292
Deactivating an activated switch-on
time ...................... 294
Programming the auxiliary heating
switch-on duration . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Switches/controllers in the driver's
restarea ................... 296
Opening/locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Door pushbuttons in the driver's
area ...................... 300
Anti-entrapment protection (re-
versing) in the door closing
direction ................... 301
Protection against entrapment in
the door opening direction . . . . . . 301
Operating/malfunction displays:
doors ..................... 301
Unlocking the door circuit at the
front right door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Unlocking the door circuit by key
remote (option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Unlocking the luggage compartment
flaps using the pushbuttons in the
driver's area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Locking door 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Locking (by key remote) . . . . . . . . 307
Emergency operation (depres-
surising the doors using the
emergency valves) . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Emergency unlocking of the luggage
compartment flaps in the event of a
compressed-air supply failure . . . . 311
Emergency exit through emergency
operation of the roof hatches . . . . 312
On-board kitchenette (integrated
in lavatory cabin) . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Safety precautions/general
information ................. 317
Use for the intended purpose . . . . 318
Approved personnel . . . . . . . . . . . 318
First use of the kitchenette . . . . . . 318
Switching on the galley . . . . . . . . . 319
Filling the fresh water tank inside
thebus .................... 321
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Filling the fresh water tank outside
thebus .................... 322
Checking and cleaning the fresh
waterfilter.................. 322
Drawing water from the water
tap ....................... 323
Switching on the sausage heat-
er ........................ 323
Cleaning the sausage heater . . . . . 326
Descaling the sausage heater . . . . 326
Switching on the coffee ma-
chine...................... 327
Brewing 1/2 a carafe of coffee (10
cups of coffee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Brewing 1 carafe of coffee (20 cups
ofcoffee)................... 328
Descaling the coffee machine . . . . 329
Dispensing cups of hot water
(alternative to coffee machine) . . . 330
Boiler (option) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Setting the thermostat of the water
heater ..................... 332
Descaling the water heater
boiler...................... 333
Winter operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Draining the fresh water tank . . . . 335
Draining the water lines . . . . . . . . 335
Draining the boiler . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Draining the siphon . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Replacing fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Malfunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Using the sausage heater again
after a malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Using the coffee machine again
after a malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Using the boiler (option) again after
a malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Other malfunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Switching off the galley . . . . . . . . . 344
On-board kitchenette with
40-cup coffee machine . . . . . . . . 347
General information . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Instructions for operating a
microwave oven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Use for the intended purpose . . . . 353
Approved personnel . . . . . . . . . . . 353
First use of the galley . . . . . . . . . . 354
Switching on the kitchenette . . . . . 355
Filling the fresh water tank inside
thebus .................... 356
Filling the fresh water tank outside
thebus .................... 358
Checking and cleaning the fresh
waterfilter.................. 358
Drawing water from the water
tap ....................... 359
Switching on the boiler . . . . . . . . . 360
Descaling the boiler . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Switching on the sausage heat-
er ........................ 363
Cleaning the sausage heater . . . . . 366
Descaling the sausage heater . . . . 366
Switching on the 40-cup coffee
machine.................... 367
Brewing coffee in winter . . . . . . . . 371
Cleaning the 40-cup coffee
machine.................... 371
Descaling the coffee machine . . . . 372
Winter operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
Draining the fresh water tank . . . . 374
Draining the water lines . . . . . . . . 374
Draining the boiler . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Draining the 40-cup coffee
machine.................... 376
Draining the siphon . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Replacing fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
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Malfunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Restoring boiler operation following
a malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Using the sausage heater again
after a malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
Using the 40-cup coffee machine
again after a malfunction . . . . . . . 382
Using the 2-carafe filter system
again after a malfunction . . . . . . . 383
Other malfunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Switching off the kitchenette . . . . . 385
On-board kitchenette with 2-
carafe filter system . . . . . . . . . . 387
General information . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Instructions for operating a
microwave oven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Use for the intended purpose . . . . 393
Approved personnel . . . . . . . . . . . 393
First use of the galley . . . . . . . . . . 394
Switching on the galley . . . . . . . . . 395
Filling the fresh water tank inside
thebus .................... 396
Filling the fresh water tank outside
thebus .................... 397
Checking and cleaning the fresh
waterfilter.................. 398
Drawing water from the water
tap ....................... 399
Switching on the boiler . . . . . . . . . 400
Setting the thermostat . . . . . . . . . 401
Descaling the boiler . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Switching on the sausage heat-
er ........................ 404
Cleaning the sausage heater . . . . . 407
Descaling the sausage heater . . . . 407
Switching on the 2-carafe filter
system .................... 407
Brewing 1/2 a carafe of coffee (10
cups of coffee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Brewing 1 carafe of coffee (20 cups
ofcoffee)................... 409
Brewing 2 carafes of coffee (40
cups of coffee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Manual operation of the 2-carafe
filter system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Descaling the coffee machine . . . . 411
Winter operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Draining the fresh water tank . . . . 413
Draining the water lines . . . . . . . . 413
Draining the boiler . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Draining the 2-carafe filter sys-
tem....................... 415
Draining the siphon . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Replacing fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Malfunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Restoring boiler operation following
a malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Using the sausage heater again
after a malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Using the 2-carafe filter system
again after a malfunction . . . . . . . 421
Other malfunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Switching off the kitchenette . . . . . 423
Lavatory ................... 425
Enabling the lavatory . . . . . . . . . . 426
Switchover between water (WC)
and chemical (CC) operation
(option) .................... 428
Flushing the WC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Drawing water at the handwash
basin...................... 430
Filling the soap dispenser . . . . . . . 430
Adding paper hand towels . . . . . . . 431
Adding toilet paper . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
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