DRIVING YOUR HYUNDAI 2- 7
C090A01L-GAT AUTOMATIC TRANSAXLE (4A/T, 5A/T)
HXG065In the main gate, selector lever has 4/ 5 positions, and is equipped with a button to avoid inadvertent wrong se-lection. NOTE:
Depress the brake pedal and push the button when shifting. Push the button when shifting. The selector lever can be shiftedfreely.
The first few shifts on a new ve-hicle, or if the battery has been taken away and reinstalled, may be somewhat abrupt. This is a normalcondition, and the shifting se- quence will become normal after shifts are cycled a few times byT.C.M (Transaxle Control Module).ating or shifting gears. On a slippery surface, an abrupt change in ve- hicle speed can cause the drivewheels to lose traction and the ve- hicle to go out of control.
The highly efficient Hyundai automatictransaxle has four/five forward speeds and one reverse speed. The individualspeeds are selected automatically, depending on the position of the speed selector lever. The selector lever has 2gates; the main gate and the manual gate. NOTE: For information on manual gate operation, refer to "Sports Mode".
!WARNING:
o Avoid high cornering speeds.
o Do not make quick steering wheel movements, such as sharp lanechanges or fast, sharp turns.
o Always wear your seat belts.
o In a collision crash, an unbelted person is significantly more likely to die than a person wearing a seatbelt.
o The risk of rollover is greatly in-
creased if you lose control ofyour vehicle at highway speeds.
o Loss of control often occurs if
two or more wheels drop off theroadway and the driver oversteers to reenter the roadway.
o In the event your vehicle leaves the roadway, do not steer sharply.Instead, slow down before pull-ing back into the travel lanes.
o Never exceed posted speed lim-
its.
DRIVING YOUR HYUNDAI 2- 9
C090F01L-GAT Sports mode Whether the vehicle is stationary or in motion, sports mode is selected by pushing the selector lever from the "D" position into the manual gate. To re-turn to "D" range operation, push the selector lever back into the main gate. In sports mode, moving the selectorlever backwards and forwards can make gearshifts rapidly simply. In con- trast to a manual transaxle, the sportsmode allows gearshifts with the acceleator pedal depressed. HXG200
+ (UP)
- (DOWN) UP (+)
: Push the lever forward
once to shift up one gear.
DOWN (-) : Pull the lever backwards
once to shift down onegear.
SKIP : By rapidly moving the se-
lector forward or backwardtwice, it is possible to skip one gear, i.e. 1st to 3rd or3rd to 1st . NOTE:
o In sports mode, only the four/five
forward gears can be selected. To reverse or park the vehicle,move the selector lever to the "R" or "P" position as required.
o In sports mode, downward shifts
are made automatically when thevehicle slows down. When the vehicle stops, 1st gear is auto-matically selected.
o To maintain the required levels
of vehicle performance andsafety, the system may not ex- ecute certain gearshifts when the selector lever is operated.
o When driving away on a slippery road, push the selector lever to-ward into the +(UP) position. Thiscauses the transaxle to shift into the 2nd gear which is better for smooth driving away on a slip-pery road. Push the selector le- ver to the -(DOWN) side to shift
back to the 1st gear.
! CAUTION:
o Upward shifts do not take place automatically in sports mode. The driver must execute upward shifts in accordance with prevailingroad conditions, taking care to keep the engine speed below the red zone.
o By rapidly moving the selector lever backwards (-) twice, it ispossible to skip one gear, i.e.,3rd to 1st, 4th to 2nd or 5th to 3rd. Since sudden engine braking and/or rapid acceleration can
cause a loss of traction, how- ever, downshifts must be made carefully in accordance with thevehicle's speed.
