2011 Seat Exeo ST service

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Description of specifications
Drawbar load
The maximum permitted drawbar load on the ball joint of the towing bracket
must not exceed 75 kg.
In the interest of road safety, we recommend that you always tow approach-
ing the maximum drawbar load. The response of the trailer on the road will
be poor if the drawbar load is too small.
If the maximum permissible drawbar load cannot be met (e.g. with small,
empty and light-weight single axle trailers or tandem axle trailers with a
wheelbase of less than 1 metre), a minimum of 4% of the actual trailer
weight is legally required for the drawbar load.
WARNING
● For safety reasons, do not exceed the 80 km/h limit. This is also valid
in countries where higher speeds are permitted.
● Never exceed the maximum trailer weights or the drawbar load. If the
permissible axle load or the permissible total weight is exceeded, the
driving characteristics of the vehicle may change, leading to accidents,
injuries and damage to the vehicle.
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Wheels
Tyre pressure, snow chains, wheel bolts
Tyre pressures
The sticker with the tyre pressure values can be found on the inside of the
tank flap. The tyre pressure values given there are for cold tyres. The slightly
raised pressures of warm tyres must not be reduced. ⇒ 
Snow chains
Snow chains may be fitted only to the front wheels. Consult the chapter “wheels” of this manual.
Wheel bolts
After the wheels have been changed, the
tightening torque of the wheel
bolts should be checked as soon as possible with a torque wrench ⇒ 
.
The tightening torque for steel and alloy wheels is 120 Nm.
WARNING
● Check the tyre pressure at least once per month. Checking the tyre
pressure is very important. If the tyre pressure is too high or too low,
there is an increased danger of accidents, particularly at high speeds.
● If the torque of the wheel bolts is too low, they could loosen while the
vehicle is in motion. Risk of accident! If the tightening torque is too high,
the wheel bolts and threads can be damaged.
Note
We recommend that you ask your Authorised Service Centre for information
about appropriate wheel, tyre and snow chain size. 
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296Technical specifications
Technical specifications
Engine specifications Checking fluid levels
From time to time, the levels of the different fluids in the ve-
hicle must be checked. Never fill with incorrect fluids, other-
wise serious damage to the engine may be caused.
Fig. 244 Diagram for the location of the various elements Vehicle battery
Engine oil filler cap
Brake fluid reservoir
Engine oil dipstick
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Coolant expansion tank
Windscreen washer fluid container
Hydraulic fluid reservoir for power steering
The checking and refilling of service fluids are carried out on the compo-
nents mentioned above. These operations are described in the ⇒ page 226.
Overview
You will find further explanations, instructions and restrictions on the tech-
nical specifications as of ⇒ page 292.
Note
The layout of parts may vary depending on the engine. 
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RepairsAirbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Replacement of parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Rev counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Reverse gear Automatic gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Manual gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Roof rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Attachment points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Roof load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Roof rails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Rubber seals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Run-flat tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Running in Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
S SAFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Safe driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Aspects to take into account . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Before setting off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Driving safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Safety equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Safety instructions Engine compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Safety notes Airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Curtain airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Deactivating front passenger airbag . . . . . . 46
Front airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Seat belt tensioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Side airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using child seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Seals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Seat adjustment Lumbar support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Seat belt cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Seat belt position Pregnant women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Seat belt protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Seat belt release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Height adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Incorrectly fastened . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Not worn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 68
Seat belt tensioner Warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Seat belt tensioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Seat belt warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Seat heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Seats Electric adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Electric backrest adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Manual adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Manual adjustment of lumbar support . . . 134
Manual backrest angle adjustment . . . . . 134 Moving the seat forwards and backwards 133
Seat height adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Selector lever positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Service indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Servotronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Side airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Side lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Sitting position Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Front passenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sitting position, occupants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Ski bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Sliding/tilting sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Automatic close function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Emergency activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Manual operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249, 295
Solar-powered blower/sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Solar sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Spare keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Spare parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Spare wheel Steel rim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Speedometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Speed warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81, 82
Speed warning function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Steam jets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
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SteeringLocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Manual steering wheel adjustment . . . . . 171
Steering wheel controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Stopping the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Sun visors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Switches on the driver door Electric windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Symbols Red symbols in central display . . . . . . . . . . 77
Yellow symbols on central display . . . . . . . 79
T Tailgate Central locking system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
TCS Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Technical modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
The danger of not using the seat belt . . . . . . . . 21
The environment Heated rear window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Leaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Warming up the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Tightening torque of wheel bolts . . . . . . . . . . 295
tiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
tiptronic mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Tow-starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Towing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201, 289
Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Notes on towing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201, 202
Removable towing bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Technical requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Towing a trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Towing bracket, fitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Towing eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Towing eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Tow starting General notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Traction control system Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Trailer weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Trip recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Turn signal lamps Hazard warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Trailer turn signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Turn signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Turn signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Tyre mobility system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Tyre Mobility System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Tyre pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66, 90, 241 Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Tyre pressure monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Tyre pressure monitoring system . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Tyre pressures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Tyre repair kit Tyre Mobility System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Tyres and wheels Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Tyres service life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Tyres tread depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Tyres with directional tread pattern . . . . . . . . 241
U Underbody protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
V
Vehicle data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Vehicle identification data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Vehicle identification number . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Vehicle keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Vehicle modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Vehicle paintwork Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Products for vehicle maintenance . . . . . . . 211
Vehicle washing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Ventilation slits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
W
Warning lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Alternator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Warning lamps Airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anti-lock brake system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Electronic differential lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Electronic Stability Programme . . . . . . . . . . 68
Engine management (EPC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Exhaust emission control system . . . . . . . . 66
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