
If and when
292How to jump start: descriptionOn ⇒fig. 245 shows the flat battery and the charged battery.
Jump lead terminal connections
– Switch off the ignition of both vehicles ⇒.
1. Connect one end of the red jump lead to the positive ⇒fig. 245
terminal of the vehicle with the flat battery ⇒.
2. Connect the other end of the red jump lead to the positive terminal in the vehicle providing assistance.
3. Connect one end of the black jump lead to the negative terminal on the battery of the vehicle providing assistance. 4. Connect the other end of the black jump lead to a solid metal
component which is bolted on to the engine block, or onto the
engine block itself of the vehicle with the flat battery. Do not
connect it to a point near the battery ⇒.
5. Position the leads in such a way that they cannot come into contact with any moving parts in the engine compartment.
Starting
6. Start the engine of the vehicle with the boosting battery and let it run at idling speed.
7. Start the engine of the vehicle with the flat battery and wait one or two minutes until the engine is running.
Removing the jump leads
8. Before you remove the jump lead s, switch off the headlights (if
they are switched on).
9. Turn on the heater blower and heated rear window in the vehicle with the flat battery. This helps minimise voltage peaks which are
generated when the leads are disconnected.
10. When the engine is running, disconnect the leads in reverse order to the details given above.
Connect the battery clamps so they have good metal-to-metal contact with
the battery terminals.
If the engine fails to start, switch off the starter after about 10 seconds and
try again after about half a minute.
Fig. 245 How to connect
the jump leads
AA
AB
A+
A+
A-
AX
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Safety First
Operating Instructions
Practical Tips
Technical Specifications
Do not pull too hard with the towing vehicle and take care to avoid jerking the
tow-rope. When towing on an unpaved road, there is always a risk of over-
loading and damaging the anchorage points.
The ignition of the vehicle being towed must be switched on to prevent the
steering wheel from locking and also to allow the use of the turn signals,
horn, windscreen wipers and washers.
As the brake servo does not work if the engine is not running, you must apply
considerably more pressure to the brake pedal than you normally would.
As the power assisted steering does not work if the engine is not running, you
will need more strength to steer than you normally would.
Towing vehicles with an automatic gearbox
•Put the selector lever into position “N”.•Do not drive faster than 50 km/h when towing a vehicle.•Do not tow further than 50 km.•If a breakdown vehicle is used, the vehicle must be towed with the front
wheels raised.Note
•Observe legal requirements when towing or tow-starting.•Switch on the hazard warning lights of both vehicles. However, observe
any regulations to the contrary.•For technical reasons, vehicles with an automatic gearbox must not be
tow-started.•If damage to your vehicle means that there is no lubricant in the gearbox,
you must raise the drive wheels while the vehicle is being towed.•If the vehicle has to be towed more than 50 km, the front wheels should
be raised during towing, and towing should be carried out by a qualified
person.
•The steering wheel is locked when the vehicle has no electrical power. The
vehicle must then be towed with the front wheels raised. Towing should be
carried out by a qualified person.•The towing eye should always be kept in the vehicle. Please refer to the
notes ⇒page 294, “Tow-starting”.Front towing eyeFitting the towing eye
– Take the towing ring from the on-board tool set.
– Remove the front cover by pressing down on the right hand side.
– Bolt the eye to its limit to the left, in the direction of the arrow
⇒ fig. 246 .
Fig. 246 Fitting the
towing eye to front rear of
the vehicle
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Index230 V socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157AAccessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Towing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Adaptive headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Air conditioner 2C-Climatronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Air distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Air outlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Air purity sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Air recirculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Air recirculation (automatic) . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Automatic mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Blower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Defrosting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
ECON Mode (economy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Economical use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Key settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Solar-powered blower/sunroof . . . . . . . . . . 171
Temperature selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Air duct Fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269, 276
Removing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268, 275 Air purity sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Airbag
Warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Airbag covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Airbag system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Curtain airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Front airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Side airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Alternator Warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Ambient lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Antifreeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Anti-lock brake system How it works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Anti-theft alarm system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Interior monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Aquaplaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Armrest Storage compartment in front armrest . . . . 142
Armrests Adjusting the front armrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Ashtray Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Athermic windscreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Auto-check system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Automatic car wash tunnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Automatic gearbox
Dynamic gear control programme . . . . . . . 188
Kick-down feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
multitronic® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Paddle levers (tiptronic mode) . . . . . . . . . . 190
Safety interlock for ignition key . . . . . . . . . 173
Selector lever lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Selector lever positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Steering wheel with paddle levers . . . . . . . 190
tiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183, 189
Automatic headlight control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Auxiliary heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
BBattery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Battery voltage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Disconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Long periods of non-use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Replacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241, 242
Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Winter operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241, 242
Bicycle rack Towing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Biodiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Biodiesel fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
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314Bonnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Releasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Brake light Failure control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Brake pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Brake servo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Brake system Brake servo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Brake assist system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Brake fluid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Worn brake pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Braking distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Bulb change General notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267CCatalytic converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
CD-ROM player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Central locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Manual locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Sunroof: opening and closing . . . . . . . . . . 113
Central locking system Anti-theft security system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Locking and unlocking the vehicle from inside
100
Opening and closing the windows . . . . . . 111
Security central locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Switch on the driver door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Tailgate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Unlocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Cetane number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Changing the main headlight bulb Main headlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Changing the main headlight bulbs Dipped beam headlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Changing the tail lights Luggage compartment lights . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Changing windscreen wiper blades . . . . . . . . . 238
Chassis number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Child safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Child safety seat ISOFIX system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Child seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Categorisation in groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Group 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Group 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Group 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Groups 0 and 0+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Securing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Child seats on the front passenger seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Childproof lock Rear doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Cigarette lighter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Cleaning alloy wheel rims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Cleaning chrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Cleaning engine compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Cleaning steel wheel rims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Cleaning windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Clock, setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Cloth seat covers cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Coat hooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Compartments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 In the door trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
In the front seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Coolant Checking the level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Coolant fluid Antifreeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Coolant fluid additive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Topping up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Cooling system Coolant temperature gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Correct adjustment of front seat head restraints . . 13
Correct adjustment of rear seat head restraints In-use and non-use positions . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Correct sitting position Front passenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Incorrect sitting position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Cruise control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
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Cruise control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Adjust the stored speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Deactivating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Deactivating temporarily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Setting the speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Curtain airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42DDanger of fitting a child seat on the front passenger seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Dash panel cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Data entry control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Date display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Daytime running lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Deactivating front passenger airbag Safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Deactivating the airbag Front passenger airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Diesel engine Winter driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Diesel engine particulate filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Diesel particulate filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Engine oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Digital clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Dipped beam headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 DIS
Average fuel consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Average speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Driving time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Instantaneous fuel consumption . . . . . . . . . 85
Disposal Airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Seat belt tensioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Distance covered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Distance to empty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73, 85
Door and tailgate warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Door lock cylinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Doors Childproof lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Locking the doors manually if the central lock-ing fails to work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Driver See Correct sitting position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Driver information system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Auto-check system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
CD and radio display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Door and tailgate warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Driver messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Handbrake warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Menu display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Onboard computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Outside temperature display . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Red symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Speed warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Warning messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Yellow symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Driver messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Driver seat
Activating stored settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
With memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
driver seat Assigning the key to the seat . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Driving Driving abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Economically / Environmentally friendly . . 199
Driving abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Driving safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
DRP See Dynamic gear control programme . . . . 188
Dynamic gear control programme . . . . . . . . . . 188
EEconomical driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Electric socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Electric windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Central locking system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Possible malfunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Rear doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Switch on front passenger's door . . . . . . . 110
Switches in the driver door . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Electronic differential lock How it works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Electronic immobiliser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
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316Electronic Stability Programme
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
How the system works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Emergencies Changing a wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Disconnecting the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254, 259
Sunroof emergency activation . . . . . . . . . . 114
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Tyre mobility system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Engine Running in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Engine compartment Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Engine oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Checking oil level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Oil pressure too low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Oil properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Oil sensor defective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Topping up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Engine speed governing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Environmental friendliness . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Roof racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Environmental tip Avoiding pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Environmentally friendly driving . . . . . . . . . . . 199 ESP
See Electronic Stability Programme . . . . . . 172
Exhaust gas purification system . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Exterior mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
FFabric trim cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Fastening rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Floor mats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Fog lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Front airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Front drink holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Front passenger airbag deactivation . . . . . . . . . 44
Fuel Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Fuel gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Fuel level low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Instantaneous fuel consumption . . . . . . . . . 85
Petrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Fuel tank opening the fuel tank flap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Fuel: save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Fuse Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
GGear display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Gear shift pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
General overview of the engine compartment 301
Glove compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
GRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180HHandbrake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Hazard warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Head restraint Rear seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Head restraints Front seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Rear seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Removing and fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Headlight range control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Dynamic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Headlights Adaptive headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Automatic headlight control . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Automatic headlight control photosensors 117
Coming home function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Driving abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Front fog lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Headlight range control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
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Headlight washer system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Leaving home function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Heated Seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Heated rear window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Heating element wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Heated seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
High pressure cleaners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57IIdentification number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Identification plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Ignition key Safety interlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Ignition lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Indicator lamps Cruise control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Glow plug system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Main beam headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Indicator lamps - overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Instruments Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 120
Interior lights Ambient lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Interior mirror With manual anti-dazzle setting . . . . . . . . . 131 Interior monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Intermittent wipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
ISOFIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
JJack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254, 259
Jump leads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Jump-starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291KKeys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Air conditioner settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Remote control key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Settings for the driver seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Kick-down feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187LLeather cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 120
Lights Adaptive headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Automatic headlight control . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Cornering light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Dipped beam headlights faulty . . . . . . . . . . 82
Dynamic headlight range control . . . . . . . . 121
Headlight flasher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Parking light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Reverse lights faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Switching on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Xenon lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Long periods of non-use Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Extending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Fastening rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Luggage compartment liner . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Luggage net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Net partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Retaining strap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Side storage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Ski bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
See also Loading the luggage compartment 16
Luggage compartment cover Removing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
MMain beam headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116, 123
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318Maintenance
Airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Maintenance and cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Manual gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Manual operation Closing the sunroof manually . . . . . . . . . . 114
Mirrors Activating stored settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Automatic exterior mirror adjustment . . . . 138
Heated exterior mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Storing settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Vanity mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Mobile phones and two-way radios . . . . . . . . . 224
multitronic® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Driving with multitronic® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184NNet partitionRemoving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Number of seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18OObservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Octane number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Odometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Oil consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Oil dipstick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Oil level Check level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Oil properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Onboard computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Outside temperature display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Overview
Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
PPaddle leverstiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Paintwork Polishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Parking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 multitronic® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Parking aid SEAT Parking System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
SEAT Parking System plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Parking aid acoustic system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Passenger See Correct sitting position . . . . . . . . . . 11, 12
Pedals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Petrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Driving abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Petrol additives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Photosensor faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Physical principles of a frontal collision . . . . . . 19
Plastic parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Plastic parts cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Power socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Power steering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Products for vehicle maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 214
QQuartz clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61RRadiator fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Radio display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Rain sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Rain sensor faulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Reading lights
Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Rear drink holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Rear fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Rear seat bench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
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
Rear window wash/wipe Automatic rear window wash/wipe . . . . . . 130
Rear window wiper Automatic rear window wash/wipe . . . . . . 130
Intermittent wipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Refuelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
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