2013 VOLKSWAGEN CC tow

WARNING
Not wearing a safety belt or wearing an improperly positioned
safety belt increases the risk of severe personal injury or death.
Safety belts offer optimum protection only when they are used
properly.
Properly worn safety belts are the single most effective
means of reducing the risk of serious injury and death in a col-
lision or other accident. For this reason, always wear your safe-
ty belt properly and make sure all passengers wear their safety
belts properly as well whenever the vehicle is moving.
The driver must always make sure that every person in the
vehicle is properly seated on a seat of his or her own, properly
fastens the safety belts belonging to that seat before the vehi-
cle starts to move, and keeps the belts properly fastened while
riding in the vehicle. This applies even when just driving
around town. Therefore, always wear your safety belts and
make sure that everybody in your vehicle is properly restrained.
Always secure children in the vehicle with a restraint system
appropriate for their age, weight and height ⇒  Child safety and
child restraints.
Always fasten safety belts correctly before driving off and
make sure that all passengers are properly restrained.
Never attach the safety belt to the buckle of another seat. At-
taching the safety belt to the wrong buckle will reduce safety
belt effectiveness and can cause serious personal injury.
Never let any objects or liquids get into the safety belt latch
and prevent it from working properly.
Never remove a safety belt while the vehicle is moving. Doing
so will increase your risk of being injured or killed.
Never strap more than one person, including small children,
into any single safety belt.
Never let children or babies ride sitting on your lap, and nev-
er place a safety belt over a child sitting on your lap.
Never wear belts over rigid or breakable objects in or on your
clothing, such as eyeglasses, pens, keys, etc., as these may
cause injury.

Unfastening safety belts
Unfasten safety belts only when the vehicle is not moving ⇒ .
Press the red button on the buckle ⇒ fig. 66. The buckle tongue is
ejected.
Let the belt wind up on the retractor as you guide the belt tongue to
its stowed position to help prevent the safety belt from twisting and to
help avoid damage to the interior trim.
WARNING
Improperly positioned safety belts can cause serious personal
injury or death in an accident.
Safety belts offer optimum protection only when the seat
backrest is upright and belts are correctly positioned on the
body.
A person who is not properly restrained can be seriously in-
jured by the safety belt itself if it slips from the stronger parts of
the body into sensitive areas like the abdomen.
Unfastening safety belts while the vehicle is in motion can
cause severe personal injury or death in the event of an acci-
dent or braking maneuver!
Safety belt position

Fig. 67 Proper safety belt positioning and head restraint adjustment.

Wiper performance in different situations:
During automatic
wipe/wash:
While the washer system is working, the
Climatronic switches to recirculation for
about 30 seconds to help prevent the
washer fluid odor from entering the vehi-
cle interior.
During intermittent
wiping:
Speed-dependent interval control: The
higher the vehicle speed, the faster the
wipers move.

Heated washer nozzles
The heating thaws frozen washer nozzles, but not the fluid supply
hoses. When the ignition is switched on, the heat applied to the
washer nozzles is automatically regulated depending on the outside
air temperature.
Headlight washer system
The headlight washer system cleans the headlight glass.
If the ignition and the headlights (high or low beams) are switched on,
the headlights are cleaned the first time and every fifth time the front
windshield washers are activated. This happens only when the low or
high beams are on when the windshield wiper lever is pulled towards
the steering wheel. However, the headlights must still be washed by
hand periodically (for instance, during refueling) in order to get rid of
hard-to-remove dirt (like insect splatter).
To help make sure that the headlight cleaning system works during
winter weather, always keep the headlight washer nozzles free of
snow and remove any ice with a deicer spray before driving. Use a
deicer spray to remove any ice.
If there is something on the windshield, the wiper will try to wipe it
away. If it continues to block the wiper, the wiper will stop moving.
Remove the obstacle and switch the wiper on again.

WARNING
Unsecured or incorrectly stowed items can fly through the ve-
hicle, causing serious personal injury during hard braking or
sharp steering or in an accident. Loose items can also be
struck and thrown through the passenger compartment by the
front airbags if they inflate. To help reduce the risk of serious
personal injury:
Always stow all objects securely in the vehicle.
Always keep storage compartments closed while driving.
Do not stow hard, heavy, or sharp objects in open bins in the
vehicle or on top of the instrument panel.
Remove hard, heavy, and sharp objects from clothing and
bags in the vehicle interior and stow securely. Always put
heavy items in the luggage compartment.
Always secure objects in the passenger compartment proper-
ly with suitable straps so that they cannot move into the de-
ployment area of a side or front airbag during braking, in a
sudden maneuver, or in a collision.
Always make sure that there is nothing on the front passen-
ger seat when the backrest is folded forward. When the
backrest is folded forward, even light objects could be pushed
into the seat cushion and cause the weight-sensing mat in the
seat to register enough weight to turn the airbag on.
Always make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG /&& light is
on and stays on whenever the backrest of the front passenger
seat is folded forward ⇒  Seat functions.
Passengers must never ride in an incorrect seating position
because objects are being transported in the vehicle.
Never let anybody sit in a seat that is blocked by objects be-
ing carried in the vehicle.

WARNING
Heavy loads will influence the way your vehicle handles and
increase stopping distances. Heavy loads that are not properly
stowed or secured can cause loss of control and serious injury.
Secure the load properly to keep it from shifting.
Always remember when transporting heavy objects that a
change in the center of gravity also changes the way your vehi-
cle handles:
– Always distribute the load as evenly as possible.
– Secure heavy objects properly as far forward in the lug-
gage compartment as possible.
– Always tie down heavy items securely with suitable straps
using the tie-downs in the luggage compartment.
Securely latch the rear seat backrest in the upright position.
Never exceed the Gross Axle Weight Rating or the Gross Ve-
hicle Weight Rating on the safety compliance sticker on the left
door jamb. Exceeding permissible weight can cause the vehicle
to skid and handle differently.
Always adapt your speed and driving to the heavier load and
the weight distribution in the vehicle. Take road, weather, traf-
fic, and visibility conditions into account as well.
Always accelerate gently and avoid sudden braking and driv-
ing maneuvers.
Always brake earlier than you would if you were not driving a
loaded vehicle.
Stowing luggage

Secure luggage in the luggage compartment using suitable straps
and the tie downs ⇒ Tie-downs. Also see ⇒  Luggage compartment.
Adjust the headlight range, if necessary ⇒  Lights.
Check the pressure in all 4 tires when the tires are still cold. Never
reduce air pressure in warm tires to match cold tire inflation pressure.
Heed the information on the tire pressure label ⇒  Tires and wheels.
Pay especially close attention to your vehicle's Tire Pressure Moni-
toring System when driving with a heavy load ⇒ Tire Pressure Moni-
toring System (TPMS).
NOTICE
Wires in the rear windows such as for heating or for an antenna
can be damaged by objects that rub against them.
Please review the information on loading a trailer⇒ Trailer towing
and a roof rack ⇒  Roof rack.
Driving with an open luggage compartment lid

WARNING
Driving with an unlatched or open luggage compartment lid can
lead to serious personal injury.
Never transport objects larger than those that fit completely
in the luggage compartment, because the luggage compart-
ment lid cannot be fully closed properly.
After closing the lid, always pull up on it to make sure that it
is properly closed and cannot open suddenly when the vehicle
is moving.
Always stow all objects securely in the luggage compart-
ment. Loose objects can fall out of the luggage compartment
and injure others on the road behind you.
Drive carefully; anticipate what other drivers will do.
Avoid abrupt or sudden acceleration, steering, or braking,
because the unlatched luggage compartment lid can move
suddenly.
Always mark objects sticking out from the luggage compart-
ment clearly for others to see. Obey all applicable legal re-
quirements.
Never use the luggage compartment lid to “clamp” or “hold”
objects that stick out of the luggage compartment.
Always remove any luggage rack or other rack mounted on
the luggage compartment lid (along with any luggage on the
rack) before driving with an open luggage compartment lid.

Brake earlier than you would if you were not driving a loaded vehi-
cle.
If applicable, observe information about driving with a trailer ⇒ 
Trailer towing.
If applicable, observe information about driving with a roof rack ⇒ 
Roof rack.
WARNING
Heavy loads can change the way your vehicle handles and in-
crease stopping distances. Heavy loads that are not properly
stowed or secured can shift suddenly, causing loss of control
and serious injury.
Secure the load properly to keep it from shifting.
Always remember when transporting heavy objects that they
change the vehicle's center of gravity and also the way it han-
dles.
– Always distribute the load as evenly as possible.
– Secure heavy objects as far forward in the luggage com-
partment as possible.
– Secure luggage in the luggage compartment using suitable
straps and the tie downs ⇒ Tie-downs. Also see ⇒  Luggage
compartment.
Always tie down heavy items securely with suitable straps.
Securely latch the rear seat backrest in the upright position.
Never exceed the Gross Axle Weight Rating or the Gross Ve-
hicle Weight Rating on the safety compliance sticker on the left
door jamb. Exceeding permissible weight can cause the vehicle
to skid and handle differently.
Always adapt speed and driving to the heavier load and the
weight distribution in the vehicle. Take road, weather, traffic,
and visibility conditions into account as well.
Always accelerate gently and avoid sudden braking and driv-
ing maneuvers.
Always brake earlier than you would if you were not driving a
loaded vehicle.