Driving173
Safety First
Operating Instructions
Practical Tips
Technical Specifications
Activating/DeactivatingActivating
– Engage reverse gear or
– Press the button
on the centre console ⇒fig. 139 or on the
gear selector gate. You will hear a brief confirmation tone and the
LED on the switch will light up.
Deactivating
– Drive forward faster than 10 km/h, or
–Press the
button or
– Switch off the ignition or
– Disengage the reverse gear.
WARNING
•The parking aid is not a replacement for driver awareness. The driver is
personally responsible for safe parking and other manoeuvres.•The sensors have blind spots in which obstacles are not registered.
Always look out for small children and animals because the system will not
always detect them. Always pay attention when reversing to avoid acci-
dents.•Always keep a close eye on the area around the vehicle and make full
use of the rear view mirrors.Caution
Please note that low obstacles detected by the system may no longer be
registered by the sensors as the vehicle moves closer, so the system will not
give any further warning. Certain kinds of obstacles (such as wire fences,
chains, thin painted posts or trailer draw bars, etc) may not always be
detected by the system, so take care not to damage the vehicle in such cases.
Note
•Please refer to the notes on towing ⇒page 173.•There is a slight delay in the picture display.To w i n g b r a c k e t *In towing mode, the rear parking aid sensors are not enabled when you select
reverse gear or press the switch
. This function may not be guaranteed on
towing brackets that are not factory fitted. This results in the following restric-
tions:
Fig. 139 Centre console:
switch for parking aid
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Accessories, parts replacement and modifications219
Safety First
Operating Instructions
Practical Tips
Technical Specifications
WARNING
Incorrectly performed modifications or other kind of work on your vehicle
can lead to malfunctions and cause accidents.Mobile phones and two-way radiosFirst 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 possibilities
for retrofitting this equipment.
Mobile telephones and two-way radios should be only fitted by a specialised
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. 162 . 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. 162 Location of the
electronic toll collection
system
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310Electronic Stability Programme
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
How the system works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Emergencies Changing a wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Disconnecting the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 252
Sunroof emergency activation . . . . . . . . . . 113
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Tyre mobility system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Engine Running in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Engine compartment Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Engine oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Checking oil level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Oil pressure too low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Oil properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Oil sensor defective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Topping up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Engine speed governing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Environmental friendliness . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Roof racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Environmental tip Avoiding pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Environmentally friendly driving . . . . . . . . . . . 194 ESP
See Electronic Stability Programme . . . . . . 166
Exhaust gas purification system . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Exterior mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
FFabric trim cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Floor mats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Fog lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Front airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Front drink holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Front passenger airbag deactivation . . . . . . . . . 44
Fuel Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Fuel gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Fuel level low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Instantaneous fuel consumption . . . . . . . . . 85
Petrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Fuel tank opening the fuel tank flap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Fuel: save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Fuse Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
GGear display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Gear shift pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
General overview of the engine compartment 295
Glove compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
GRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174HHandbrake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Hazard warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Head restraint Rear seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Head restraints Front seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Rear seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Removing and fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Headlight range control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Dynamic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Headlights Adaptive headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Automatic headlight control . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Automatic headlight control photosensors 116
Coming home function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Driving abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Front fog lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Headlight range control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
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Headlight washer system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Leaving home function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Heated Seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Heated rear window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Heating element wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Heated seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
High pressure cleaners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57IIdentification number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Identification plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Ignition key Safety interlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Ignition lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Indicator lamps Cruise control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Glow plug system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Main beam headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Indicator lamps - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Instruments Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 119
Interior lights Ambient lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Interior mirror With manual anti-dazzle setting . . . . . . . . . 131 Interior monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Intermittent wipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
ISOFIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
JJack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247, 252
Jump leads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Jump-starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284KKeys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Air conditioner settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Remote control key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Settings for the driver seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Kick-down feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181LLeather cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 119
Lights Adaptive headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Automatic headlight control . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Cornering light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Dipped beam headlights faulty . . . . . . . . . . 82
Dynamic headlight range control . . . . . . . . 120
Headlight flasher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Parking light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Reverse lights faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Switching on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Xenon lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Load compartment in the luggage compartment See Loading the luggage compartment . . . . 16
Loading the luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . 16
Locking the doors manually if the central locking fails to work
Locking the doors manually if the central lock- ing fails to work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Locks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Long periods of non-use Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Extending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Ski bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
See also Loading the luggage compartment 16
Luggage rack See Roof rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
MMain beam headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115, 122
Maintenance
Airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Maintenance and cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Manual gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Manual operation Closing the sunroof manually . . . . . . . . . . . 113
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312Mirrors
Activating stored settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Automatic exterior mirror adjustment . . . . 138
Heated exterior mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Storing settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Vanity mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Mobile phones and two-way radios . . . . . . . . . 219
multitronic® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Driving with multitronic® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178NNumber of seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18OObservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Octane number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Odometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Oil consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Oil dipstick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Oil level
Check level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Oil properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Onboard computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Outside temperature display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Overview Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
PPaddle leverstiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Paintwork Polishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 multitronic® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Parking aid SEAT Parking System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
SEAT Parking System plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Parking aid acoustic system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Passenger See Correct sitting position . . . . . . . . . . 11, 12
Pedals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Petrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Driving abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Petrol additives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Photosensor faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Physical principles of a frontal collision . . . . . . 19
Plastic parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Plastic parts cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Power socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149, 150
Power steering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Products for vehicle maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 209QQuartz clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
RRadiator fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Radio display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Rain sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Rain sensor faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Reading lights Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Rear drink holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Rear fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Rear side window sun blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Rear view mirrors Anti-dazzle interior mirror with automatic adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Anti-dazzle setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Interior mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Rear window sun blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Refuelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Registration light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Remote control key Indicator light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Locking and unlocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Locking and unlocking the vehicle . . . . . . 105
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Remote control keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Re-synchronising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Removing and fitting the wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Repairs Airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Replacement of parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
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