If and when 236
WARNING
•Do not allow the sealant to get onto your skin or into your eyes. Risk of
injury.
•Keep children away from the sealant.
Changing a wheel
Preparatory work
You must park the vehicle correctly before changing a tyre.
– If you have a flat tyre or puncture, park the car as far away from
the flow of traffic as possible on a flat surface.
– Switch off the engine. Switch on the hazard warning lights.
– Apply the handbrake firmly and engage a gear or put the selector
in the P position.
– Chock the wheel opposite the wheel being changed with a stone
or similar object.
– If you are towing a trailer, unhitch it from your vehicle.
– Remove the spare wheel and the vehicle tools from the luggage
compartment.
– All passengers should leave the car. They should wait in a safe
place (for instance behind the safety barrier).
WARNING
•If you have a puncture, stop the car well away from moving traffic.
Switch on the hazard warning lights and set the emergency triangle in
position. Please observe legal requirements when doing so.
•All passengers should leave the car.
•Apply the handbrake firmly and engage a gear or put the gear selector
in the P position. Chock the wheel opposite the wheel being changed with
a stone or similar object.
•If you are towing a trailer, unhitch it from your vehicle.
•Only use jacks which have been approved for your vehicle by SEAT.
•Never use other jacks, even if they have been approved for use on other
SEAT models. The jack could slip. Risk of injury.
•Never start the engine when the vehicle is raised. This may cause an
accident.
•Never place your body (e.g. arm or leg) underneath the vehicle if it is
only supported by the jack Risk of injury.
•If you have to work underneath the vehicle, you must use suitable
stands additionally to support the vehicle - Risk of accident!.
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Guide lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
H
Hand brake
warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Handbrake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76, 172
Hazard warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
head restraints
Adjusting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122, 123
fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Removing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Headlamp washer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Headlight flasher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Headlight range control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Headlights
Driving abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Heated rear window
Heating elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
High pressure cleaners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Hubcaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
I
Identification number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Ignition key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Ignition lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Illumination of instruments and switches . . . . 109
Indicator lights
indication lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Individual opening of doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Information messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Instrument lighting control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Instrument panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Integrated child seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Adjusting belt routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Cleaning the child seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Fastening harness belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Group 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Group 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Group 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Releasing harness belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Interior light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Interior lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Interior monitoring system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Intermittent wipe
rear window wiper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
windscreen wiper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
J
Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Jump leads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Jump-starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
K
Key tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Key with remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Kick-down function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
L
Lifting platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Lifting the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Lighting of controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Load compartment
SeeLuggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Loading area
SeeLuggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 142
See alsoLuggage compartment . . . . . . 14, 142
Luggage compartment cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
M
Main beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Main beam headlights
Indicator lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Manual gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Manual mode
Climatronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Mileage display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65, 66
Mirrors
Exterior mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Interior mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Make-up mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
