2014 KIA Soul child restraint

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Driving your vehicle
WARNING
Overloading your vehicle cancause heat buildup in your
vehicle's tires and possible
tire failure that could lead to a
crash.
Overloading your vehicle can cause increased stopping dis-
tances that could lead to a
crash.
A crash resulting from poor handling vehicle damage, tire
failure, or increased stopping
distances could result in seri-
ous injury or death.
WARNING- Loose cargo
Items you carry inside your
vehicle can strike and injure
occupants in a sudden stop or
turn, or in a crash.
Put items in the cargo area ofyour vehicle. Try to spread the
weight evenly.
Never stack items, like suit- cases, inside the vehicle
above the tops of the seats.
Do not leave an unsecured child restraint in your vehicle.
When you carry something inside the vehicle, secure it.
Do not drive with a seat folded down unless necessary.
CAUTION
Overloading your vehicle may cause damage. Repairs wouldnot be covered by your war-ranty. Do not overload yourvehicle.
Using heavier suspension components to get addeddurability might not changeyour weight ratings. Ask yourdealer to help you load yourvehicle the right way.

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Active ECO system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45Active ECO operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45
Limitation of Active ECO operation . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45
When Active ECO is activated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45
Air bag - advanced supplemental restraint system . . . . 3-40 Adding equipment to or modifying your air bag-equipped vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-69
Additional safety precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-68
Air bag warning label. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-70
Air bag warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-43
Curtain air bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-60
Do not Installing a child restraint on a front passenger's seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-43
Driver's and passenger's front air bag . . . . . . . . . . . 3-53
How does the air bag system operate . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41
Inflation and non-inflation conditions of the air bag . . 3-63
Occupant Detection System (ODS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-47
Side air bag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-59
SRS care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-67\
SRS components and functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44
Air cleaner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-36\
Filter replacement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-36
Appearance care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-88 Exterior care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-88
Interior care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-93
Audio system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-143 Advanced lighting speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-146
Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-143
Audio remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-144
Aux, USB and iPod®port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-145
Automatic climate control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-113 Automatic heating and air conditioning. . . . . . . . . 4-114
Checking the amount of air conditioner refrigerantand compressor lubricant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-124
Climate control air filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-124
Manual heating and air conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . 4-115
System operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-122
Automatic transaxle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19 Automatic transaxle operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
Good driving practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-24
Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \
. . 7-44 Battery recharging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-45
For best battery service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-44
Reset items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-46
Before driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4 Before entering vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Before starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Necessary inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Brake system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26 Anti-lock brake system (ABS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-30
Electronic stability control (ESC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-32
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Good braking practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-38
Hill-start assist control (HAC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-37
Parking brake - Hand type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-28
Power brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26
Vehicle stability management (VSM) . . . . . . . . . . . 5-36
Brake/clutch fluid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-32 Checking the brake/clutch fluid level . . . . . . . . . . . 7-32
Bulb wattage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
Child restraint system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31 Lower anchor system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-37
Tether anchor system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-36
Using a child restraint system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-33
Clean air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-\
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Climate control air filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-38 Filter replacement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-38
Cruise control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-40 Cruise control switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-41
To cancel cruise control, do one of the following . . 5-43
To decrease the cruising speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-42
To increase cruise control set speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-42
To resume cruising speed at more thanapproximately 20 mph (30 km/h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-44
To set cruise control speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-41
To temporarily accelerate with the cruise control on . . 5-43
To turn cruise control off, do one of the following . 5-44 Defroster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-\
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Rear window defroster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-102
Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-\
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Door locks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-\
19 Auto door lock/unlock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22
Child-protector rear door lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24
Impact sensing door unlock system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-22
Operating door locks from inside the vehicle . . . . . 4-20
Operating door locks from outside the vehicle . . . . 4-19
Speed sensing door lock system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-24
Economical operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-51
Emergency starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5 Jump starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5
Push-starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Emission control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-95
Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \
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Engine compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6, 7-3
Engine coolant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29 Changing the coolant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-31
Checking the coolant level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29
Engine oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-\
27 Changing the engine oil and filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-28
Checking the engine oil level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27
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