
Your vehicle maintenance and cleaning215
Safety First
Controls and equipment
Practical tips
Technical Data
to the windscreen washer fluid prevents wiper blades from juddering. Wax
deposits are not removed.
Caution
•Never use warm or hot water to remove snow and ice from windows and
mirrors. This could cause the glass to crack!•The heating element for the rear window is located on the inner side of the
window. To prevent damage, do not put stickers on the heating elements
inside the window.Cleaning windscreen wiper bladesClean wiper blades are essent ial to provide clear vision.
1. Use a soft cloth to remove dust and dirt from the windscreen wiper blades.
2. Use window cleanser to clean the windscreen wiper blades. Use
a sponge or a cloth to remove stubborn stains.Rubber seals maintenance
If rubber seals are well looked after, they will not freeze so
quickly.1. Use a soft cloth to remove dust and dirt from the rubber seals.
2. Apply a specialist care product to the rubber seals.
The strips on the doors, windows, bonnet and rear lid will remain pliable and
last longer if they are treated with a suitable care product (for example sili-
cone spray).
Caring for rubber seals will also prevent premature ageing and leaks. The
doors will be easier to open. If rubber seals are well looked after, they will not
freeze so quickly in winter.Door lock cylinders
The door lock cylinders can freeze up in winter.To de-ice the lock cylinders you should only use spray with lubricating and
anti-corrosive properties.Cleaning chrome parts1. Clean chrome parts with a damp cloth.
2. Polish chrome parts with a soft, dry cloth.If this does not provide satisfying results, use a specialist chrome cleaning
product . Chrome cleaning products will remove stains and coatings from the
surface.
Caution
To prevent scratching chrome surfaces:•Never use an abrasive care product on chrome.•Do not clean or polish chrome parts in a sandy or dusty environment.
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Accessories, replacement of parts and modifications221
Safety First
Controls and equipment
Practical tips
Technical Data
WARNING
Incorrectly performed modifications or other kind of work on your vehicle
can lead to malfunctions and cause accidents.Mobile telephones and radiotelephonesFirst consult your Authorised Service Centre if you wish to use a mobile tele-
phone or a two-way radio with a transmitting power output in excess of
10 watts. Here you will receive information concerning the technical possibil-
ities for retrofitting this equipment.
Mobile telephones and two-way radios should be only fitted by a qualified
workshop, for example an Authorised Service Centre.
WARNING
•Always concentrate primarily on driving. If you are distracted while
driving you could have an accident.•Never attach the telephone mountings to the surfaces covering the
airbag units or within the range of the airbags. There is a high danger of
injury if the airbag is triggered.Note
Please observe the operating instructions of your mobile telephone / two-way
radio.
Athermic windscreen*Vehicles with an athermic windscreen have an area without athermic treat-
ment above the rear-view mirror ⇒fig. 173 . This area has been designed for
the operating of electronic components of fitted devices (e.g. electronic toll
collection system).
Note
The customer should ensure that the electronic toll collection system is fitted
in the correct area to make sure it works correctly.
Fig. 173 Location of the
electronic toll collection
system
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If and when263
Safety First
Controls and equipment
Practical tips
Technical Data
Caution
Never “repair” damaged fuses and never replace them with fuses with a
higher rating. Failure to comply could result in fire. It could also cause
damage to other parts of the electrical system.
Note
If a newly replaced fuse blows again after a short time, the electrical system
must be checked by a qualified workshop as soon as possible.Fuse assignment
This list shows the fuses which can be replaced relatively
easily by the owner.No.
Consumer
Amps
1
Climate control
10
2
Footwell lamps
5
3
Heated washer jets
5
4
Radiator fan
5
5
Parking aid, automatic gearbox
10
6
Air conditioner (air purity sensor), pressure sensor
5
7
Electronic Stabilisation Program (ESP), brake light
switch, clutch pedal switch, steering angle sensor
10
8
Te le p hon e
5
9
Va can t
10
Self-directing headlights (adaptive light) right
5
11
Airbag and disconnection of the front passenger air-
bag
5
12
Diagnostic socket
10
13
Steering column unit
10
14
Brake lights
10
15
Instrument panel
10
16
Va can t
17
Tyre pressure control, rain/light sensor
10
18
Self-directing headlights (adaptive light) left
5
19
Va can t
20
Va can t
21
Va can t
22
Driver's door / front passenger's door
15
23
Rear doors
15
24
Central electrics unit for convenience equipment
20
25
Heater blower
30
26
Rear window heater
30
27
Electrical socket for trailer (control unit)
30
28
Fuel pump, auxiliary pump for diesel
20
29
Va can t
30
Sliding/tilting sunroof
20
31
Diagnosis connection, automatic anti-dazzle interior
mirror, reverse light, automatic gearbox
15
32
Towi ng s ocke t
15
No.
Consumer
Amps
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Index
308Engine oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Checking oil level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Oil pressure too low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Oil properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Oil sensor defective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Topping up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Environmental friendliness . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Environmental tip Avoiding pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Environmentally friendly driving . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Exhaust gas purification system . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Exterior mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214FFabric trim cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Fastening rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Filling the tank Releasing the tank flap manually . . . . . . . 223
Floor mats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Fog lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Front airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Front drink holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Front passenger airbag deactivation . . . . . . . . . 44
Frontal airbags Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Fuel
Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Fuel gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Fuel level low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Instantaneous fuel consumption . . . . . . . . . 85
Petrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Fuel range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73, 85
Fuel tank opening the fuel tank flap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Fuel: save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Fuse Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
GGear display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Gear shift pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
General overview of the engine compartment 295
Glove compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Cool box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
GRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178HHandbrake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Hazard warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Head restraint Rear seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Head restraints
Front seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Rear seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Removing and fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
head restraints, correct adjustment . . . . . . . . . 13 In-use and non-use positions . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Headlight range control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Dynamic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Adaptive headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Automatic headlight control . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Automatic headlight control photo sensors . . .117
Coming home function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Driving abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Front fog lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Headlight range control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Headlight washer system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Leaving home function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Heated Seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Heated rear window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Heated seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
High pressure cleaners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
IIdentification number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
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310Manual operation
Closing the sunroof manually . . . . . . . . . . 114
Fuel tank flap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Mirrors Anti-dazzle interior rear-view mirror with auto-matic adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Automatic exterior mirror adjustment . . . . 138
Enabling stored settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Heated exterior mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Make-up mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Storing settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Mobile telephones and radiotelephones . . . . 221
multitronic® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Driving with multitronic® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182NNumber of seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18OObservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Octane number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Oil consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Oil dipstick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Oil levelCheck level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Oil properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
On-board computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Override function Sunroof override function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Overview
Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
PPaddle leverstiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Paintwork Polishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 multitronic® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Parking aid SEAT parking system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
SEAT parking system plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Parking aid acoustic system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Partition grille Removing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Pedals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Petrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Driving abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Petrol additives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Physical principles of a frontal collision . . . . . . 19
Plastic parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Plastic parts cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Power point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Power steering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Products for vehicle maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 211QQuartz clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
RRadiator fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Radio display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Rain sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Rain sensor faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Reading lights Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Rear drinks holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Rear fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Rear seat bench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Rear side window sun blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Rear view mirror With manual anti-dazzle setting . . . . . . . . 131
Rear view mirrors Anti-dazzle setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Interior rear view mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Rear window heating Heating element wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Rear window sun blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Rear window wash/wipe Automatic rear window wash/wipe . . . . . . 130
Rear window wiper Automatic rear window wash/wipe . . . . . . 130
Intermittent wipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Refuelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Registration light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
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