2003 Lancia Ypsilon Owner handbook (in English)

Congratulations and thank you for choosing LANCIA.
We have written this handbook to help you appreciate all the fine qualities of your car.
You should read it right through before taking to the road for the first time.
You will find information, tips and important warnings regarding the driving of the car to help you
derive the maximum from your LANCIA’s technological features. You will also discover all its special
features and find very valuable information for your car's care, maintenance, driving safety and run-
ning which will help you keep your car in tip-top condition for a long time to come.
The enclosed LANCIA Warranty Booklet lists the services you have acquired and contains details on
the following:
• the Warranty Certificate with the terms and conditions for maintaining it
• the range of additional services available to LANCIA Owners.
We are sure that these instruments will help you easily attune to and appreciate both your new car
and the LANCIA team that will be on hand to provide you with any assistance you may require.
Best regards and have a good trip.
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This Owner Handbook describes all the Lancia Y versions. As a consequence, you should consider only the information
which is related to the engine and bodywork version of the car you purchased.
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TRAVELLING SAFELY AND PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
Safety and respect for the environment are the guidelines that inspired the Lancia Y’s design from the
drawing board onwards.
This concept has meant that the Lancia Y has been able to face and pass the strictest safety tests.
So much so that, from this point of view, the car is the best in its class and has already incorporated
features that will become compulsory in the years to come.
Ongoing research into new and effective features to help safeguard the environment makes the
Lancia Y a car to imitate for this reason as well.
All versions are in fact equipped with environmental protection devices that reduce harmful exhaust
fumes in compliance with the limits provided for by current legislation.
What’s more, it is totally recyclable. It has been designed to ensure a correct ecological treatment and
recycling of all its component materials at the end of its life. When the time comes for your Lancia Y
to be scrapped your LANCIA Dealership is committed to helping you to ensure that it is totally recy-
cled. Nature benefits in two ways: nothing is wasted or thrown away and there is a correspondingly
smaller need for new raw materials.
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SAFEGUARDING THE ENVIRONMENT
The design and production of the Lancia Y has eliminated the use of a whole series of polluting ma-
terials and led to the perfection of devices that can reduce or considerably curtail harmful influences on
the environment. The Lancia Y is consequently ready to travel well ahead of the most stringent inter-
national pollution control standards.
USE OF MATERIALS THAT DO NOT HARM THE ENVIRONMENT
None of the car’s components contain asbestos. Padding and the air conditioning system do not con-
tain CFC’s (Chlorofluorocarbides), gases considered responsible for the destruction of the ozone layer.
None of the colourings and anti-corrosion coatings of the nuts and bolts contain air- or water-table-pol-
luting cadmium or chromates, but environmentally-friendly substances.
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DEVICES FOR REDUCING ENGINE EMISSIONS
Three-way catalytic converter (catalytic exhaust pipe)
Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and unburnt hydrocarbons are the main harmful components in
exhaust gases.
The catalytic exhaust pipe and the devices connected to it are a “miniature laboratory” where a very
high percentage of these components are converted into harmless substances.
This conversion is aided by minute particles of precious metals on the ceramic core enclosed in the
stainless-steel container.
Lambda sensors
All are fitted with these devices. They ensure that air and fuel are constantly mixed in the correct pro-
portion. This is a fundamental condition for proper engine and catalytic converter operation.
Evaporation control systems
As it is impossible to stop the build-up of petrol fumes even when the engine is not running, the sys-
tem traps them in a special container holding active carbon. They are sucked in from here and burnt
while the engine is running.
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Personal safety.
Important. Total or partial failure to
follow these instructions can place
driver, passengers or others in serious
danger.Environmental protection.
This shows you the correct procedures
to follow to ensure the car will not
harm the environment.The car’s well-being.
Important. Total or partial failure to
follow these instructions will result in
the risk of serious damage to the car
and sometimes invalidates the war-
ranty as well.
THE SIGNS TO HELP YOU DRIVE CORRECTLY
The signs you see on this page are very important. They highlight those parts of the handbook where,
more than elsewhere, you should stop for a minute and read carefully.
As you can see, each sign has a different symbol to make it immediately clear and easy to identify the
subjects in the different areas:
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