2013 Hyundai Santa Fe service

F4FOREWORD
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Hyundais. The advanced engineering and high-quality construction of each Hyundai we build is something of which we're very
proud.
Your Owner's Manual will introduce you to the features and operation of your new Hyundai. It is suggested that you read it care-
fully because the information it contains can contribute greatly to the satisfaction you receive from your new car.
The manufacturer also recommends that service and maintenance on your vehicle be performed by an authorized Hyundai dealer.
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Note: Because future owners will also need the information included in this manual, if you sell this Hyundai, please leave the manual
in the vehicle for their use. Thank you.
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CAUTION
Severe engine and transaxle damage may result from the use of poor quality fuels and lubricants that do not meet Hyundai
specifications. You must always use high quality fuels and lubricants that meet the specifications listed on Page 8-6 in the
Vehicle Specifications section of the Owner's Manual.

Safety features of your vehicle
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CAUTION
If the pre-tensioner seat belt is
not working properly, the SRS
air bag warning light will illumi-
nate even if there is no malfunc-
tion of the SRS air bag. If the
SRS air bag warning light does
not illuminate when the ignition
key is turned to ON, or if it
remains illuminated after illumi-
nating for approximately 6 sec-
onds, or if it illuminates while
the vehicle is being driven, we
recommend that the system be
inspected by an authorized
HYUNDAI dealer.
WARNING
• Pre-tensioners seat belts sys-
tems are designed to operate
only one time. After activa-
tion, pre-tensioner seat belts
must be replaced. All seat
belts, of any type, should
always be replaced after they
have been worn during a colli-
sion.
• The pre-tensioner seat belt
assembly mechanisms
become hot during activation.
Do not touch the pre-tension-
er seat belt assemblies for
several minutes after they
have been activated.
• Do not attempt to inspect or
replace the pre-tensioner seat
belts yourself. We recommend
that the system be inspected
by an authorized HYUNDAI
dealer.
• Do not attempt to service or
repair the pre-tensioner seat
belt system in any manner.
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• Improper handling of the pre-
tensioner seat belt assem-
blies, and failure to heed the
warnings not to strike, modify,
inspect, replace, service or
repair the pre-tensioner seat
belt assemblies may lead to
improper operation or inad-
vertent activation and serious
injury.
• Always wear the seat belts
when driving or riding in a
motor vehicle.
• If the vehicle or pre-tensioner
seat belt must be discarded,
we recommend that you con-
tact an authorized HYUNDAI
dealer.
CAUTION
Body work on the front area of
the vehicle may damage the pre-
tensioner seat belt system.
Therefore, we recommend that
the system be serviced by an
authorized HYUNDAI dealer.

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Safety features of your vehicle
Curtain air bag (if equipped)
❈The actual air bags in the vehicle may dif-
fer from the illustration.
Curtain air bags are located along
both sides of the roof rails above the
front and rear doors.
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• Do not use any accessory
seat covers.
• Use of seat covers could
reduce or prevent the effec-
tiveness of the system.
• Do not install any accessories
on the side or near the side
impact air bag.
• Do not place any objects over
the air bag or between the air
bag and yourself.
• Do not place any objects (an
umbrella, bag, etc.) between
the front door and the front
seat. Such objects may
become dangerous projec-
tiles and cause injury if the
supplemental side impact air
bag inflates.
• To prevent unexpected deploy-
ment of the side impact air bag
that may result in personal
injury, avoid impact to the side
impact sensor when the igni-
tion key is on.
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• If the seat or seat cover is
damaged, we recommend that
the system be serviced by an
authorized HYUNDAI dealer.
*: Only vehicle is equipped with rollover sensor.
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They are designed to help protect
the heads of the front seat occupants
and the rear outboard seat occupants
in certain side impact collisions.
The curtain air bags are designed to
deploy during certain side impact col-
lisions, depending on the crash sever-
ity, angle, speed and point of impact.
The curtain air bags do not only
deploy on the side of the impact but
also on the opposite side.
✽NOTICE - if equipped with
rollover sensor
Also, both sides of the side impact
air bags and curtain air bags deploy
in certain rollover situations.
• The curtain air bags are not
designed to deploy in all side
impacts.
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• Do not allow the passengers
to lean their heads or bodies
onto doors, put their arms on
the doors, stretch their arms
out of the window, or place
objects between the doors
and passengers when they are
seated on seats equipped with
side and/or curtain air bags.
• Never try to open or repair any
components of the side cur-
tain air bag system. We rec-
ommend that the system be
serviced by an authorized
HYUNDAI dealer.
Failure to follow the above men-
tioned instructions can result in
injury or death to the vehicle
occupants in an accident.WARNING
• In order for side impact and
curtain air bags to provide the
best protection, both front
seat occupants and both out-
board rear occupants should
sit in an upright position with
the seat belts properly fas-
tened.
Importantly, children should
sit in a proper child restraint
system in the rear seat.
• When children are seated in
the rear outboard seats, they
must be seated in the proper
child restraint system.
Make sure to put the child
restraint system as far away
from the door side as possible,
and secure the child restraint
system in a locked position.
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Air bag inflation conditions
Front air bags
Front air bags are designed to inflate
in a frontal collision depending on
the intensity, speed or angles of
impact of the front collision.
WARNING - if equipped
with rollover sensor
If your vehicle is equipped with
side and curtain air bag, set the
ignition switch to OFF or ACC
position when the vehicle is
being towed.
The side and curtain air bag
may deploy when the ignition is
ON, and the rollover sensor
detects the situation as a rollover.
WARNING
• Do not hit or allow any objects
to impact the locations where
air bag or sensors are installed.
This may cause unexpected air
bag deployment, which could
result in serious personal
injury or death.
• If the installation location or
angle of the sensors is altered
in any way, the air bags may
deploy when they should not
or they may not deploy when
they should, causing severe
injury or death. Therefore, do
not try to perform maintenance
on or around the air bag sen-
sors. We recommend that the
system be serviced by an
authorized HYUNDAI dealer.
• Problems may arise if the sen-
sor installation angles are
changed due to the deforma-
tion of the front bumper, body,
front door or B pillar and C pil-
lars where side collision sen-
sors are installed.
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We recommend that the sys-
tem be serviced by an author-
ized HYUNDAI dealer.
• Your vehicle has been
designed to absorb impact
and deploy the air bag(s) in
certain collisions. Installing
bumper guards or replacing a
bumper with non-genuine
parts may adversely affect
your vehicles collision and air
bag deployment performance.
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• Air bags may not inflate if the vehi-
cle collides with objects such as util-
ity poles or trees, where the point of
impact is concentrated to one area
and the full force of the impact is not
delivered to the sensors.
SRS Care
The SRS is virtually maintenance-
free and so there are no parts you
can safely service by yourself. If the
SRS air bag warning light does not
illuminate, or continuously remains
on, we recommend that the system
be inspected by an authorized
HYUNDAI dealer.
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• Modification to SRS compo-
nents or wiring, including the
addition of any kind of badges
to the pad covers or modifica-
tions to the body structure,
can adversely affect SRS per-
formance and lead to possible
injury.
• For cleaning the air bag pad
covers, use only a soft, dry
cloth or one which has been
moistened with plain water.
Solvents or cleaners could
adversely affect the air bag
covers and proper deploy-
ment of the system.
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• No objects should be placed
over or near the air bag mod-
ules on the steering wheel,
instrument panel, and the front
passenger's panel above the
glove box, because any such
object could cause harm if the
vehicle is in a crash severe
enough to cause the air bags to
inflate.
• If the air bags inflate, we rec-
ommend that the system be
replaced by an authorized
HYUNDAI dealer.
• Do not tamper with or discon-
nect SRS wiring, or other com-
ponents of the SRS system.
Doing so could result in injury,
due to accidental inflation of
the air bags or by rendering the
SRS inoperative.
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Mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-48
• Inside rearview mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-48
• Outside rearview mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-52
Instrument cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-56
• Instrument Cluster Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-58
• LCD Display Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-59
• Gauges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-59
• Transaxle Shift Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-64
LCD display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-66
• LCD Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-66
• Service Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-67
• User Settings Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-68
• A/V Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-71
• Turn By Turn Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-71
• Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-72
Trip computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-79
• Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-79
• Trip A/B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-80
• Fuel Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-81
Warning and indicator lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-83
• Warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-83
• Indicator Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-93
Rear parking assist system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-98
• Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-98
• Non-operational conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-99• Self-diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-100
Parking assist system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-101
• Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-101
• Non-operational conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-103
• Self-diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-105
Smart parking assist system(SPAS) . . . . . . . . . . 4-106
• Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-107
• Non-operational conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-107
• How the system works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-110
• Additional instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-117
• System malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-118
Rearview camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-119
Hazard warning flasher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-120
Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-121
• Battery saver function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-121
• Headlamp escort function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-121
• Smart cornering light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-121
• Lighting control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-122
• Traffic change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-124
• High - beam operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-125
• Turn signals and lane change signals . . . . . . . . . . . 4-126
• Front fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-127
• Rear fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-128
• Daytime running light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-128
• Headlight leveling device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-129
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Features of your vehicle
✽NOTICE
When starting the engine, do not use
the key with other immobilizer keys
around. Otherwise the engine may
not start or may stop soon after it
starts. Keep each key separate in
order to avoid a starting malfun-
tioin.
✽NOTICE
If you need additional keys or lose
your keys, we recommend that you
consult with an authorized
HYUNDAI dealer.
CAUTION
The transponder in your ignition
key is an important part of the
immobilizer system. It is
designed to give years of trou-
ble-free service, however you
should avoid exposure to mois-
ture, static electricity and rough
handling. Immobilizer system
malfunction could occur.
CAUTION
Do not change, alter or adjust
the immobilizer system because
it could cause the immobilizer
system to malfunction and we
recommend that the system be
serviced by an authorized
HYUNDAI dealer.
Malfunctions caused by improp-
er alterations, adjustments or
modifications to the immobilizer
system are not covered by your
vehicle manufacturer warranty.
WARNING
In order to prevent theft of your
vehicle, do not leave spare keys
anywhere in your vehicle. Your
immobilizer password is a cus-
tomer unique password and
should be kept confidential. Do
not leave this number anywhere
in your vehicle.
CAUTION
Do not put metal accessories
near the ignition switch.
The engine may not start for the
metal accessories may interrupt
the transponder signal from
normally transmitting.