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SRS components and functions
The SRS consists of the following com- ponents:
1. Driver's front air bag module
2. Passenger's front air bag module
3. Side air bag modules*
4. Curtain air bag modules*
5. Retractor pre-tensioner assemblies
6. Air bag warning light
7. SRS control module (SRSCM)
8. Front impact sensors
9. Side impact sensors*
10. Passenger’s front air bag ON/OFFindicator
11. Passenger’s front air bag ON/OFF switch
* : if equipped The SRSCM continually monitors all ele-
ments whilst the ignition switch is ON to
determine if a frontal, near-frontal impact
or side impact is severe enough to require
air bag deployment or pre-tensioner seat
belt deployment.
The SRS air bag warning light on the
instrument panel will illuminate for about
6 seconds after the ignition switch is
turned to the ON position, after which the
air bag warning light should go out.
WARNING
If any of the following conditions
occurs, this indicates a malfunction
of the SRS. We recommend that the
system be inspected by an autho-
rised Kia dealer.
The light does not turn on briefly when you turn the ignition ON.
The light stays on after illuminat- ing for approximately 6 seconds.
The light comes on whilst the vehicle is in motion.
The light blinks when the ignition switch is in ON position.
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WARNING
If an air bag deploys, there may be a loud noise followed by a fine
dust released in the vehicle.These conditions are normal and
are not hazardous - the air bags
are packed in this fine powder.
The dust generated during air
bag deployment may cause skin
or eye irritation as well as aggra-
vate asthma for some persons.
Always wash all exposed skin
areas thoroughly with lukewarmwater and a mild soap after an
accident in which the air bags
were deployed.
(Continued)(Continued)
The SRS can function only whenthe ignition key is in the ON posi-
tion. If the SRS air bag warning
light does not illuminate, or con-
tinuously remains on after illumi-
nating for about 6 seconds when
the ignition key is turned to the
ON position, or after the engine is
started, comes on whilst driving,
the SRS is not working properly.
If this occurs, we recommend
that the system be inspected by
an authorised Kia dealer.
Before you replace a fuse or dis- connect a battery terminal, turn
the ignition switch to the LOCK
position and remove the ignition
key. Never remove or replace the
air bag related fuse(s) when the
ignition switch is in the ON posi-
tion. Failure to heed this warning
will cause the SRS air bag warn-
ing light to illuminate.
WARNING
Do not install or place any acces- sories (drink holder, cassette
holder, sticker, etc.) on the front
passenger's panel above the
glove box in a vehicle with a pas-
senger's air bag. Such objects
may become dangerous projec-
tiles and cause injury if the pas-
senger's air bag inflates.
When installing a container of liq- uid air freshener inside the vehi-
cle, do not place it near the
instrument cluster nor on the
instrument panel surface.
It may become dangerous projec-
tiles and cause injury if the pas-
senger's air bag inflates.
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Side impact air bag (if equipped)
Your vehicle is equipped with a side
impact air bag in each front seat. The
purpose of the air bag is to provide the
vehicle's driver and/or the front passen-ger with additional protection than that
offered by the seat belt alone. The side
impact air bags are designed to deploy
only during certain side-impact collisions,
depending on the crash severity, angle,
speed and point of impact. The side air
bags are not designed to deploy in all
side impact situations.
WARNING
The side impact air bag is sup- plemental to the driver's and the
passenger's seat belt systems
and is not a substitute for them.
Therefore your seat belts must be
worn at all times whilst the vehi-
cle is in motion. The air bags
deploy only in certain side impact
conditions severe enough to
cause significant injury to the
vehicle occupants.
For best protection from the side impact air bag system and to
avoid being injured by the
deploying side impact air bag,
both front seat occupants shouldsit in an upright position with the
seat belt properly fastened. Thedriver's hands should be placedon the steering wheel at the 9:00
and 3:00 positions. The passen-
ger's arms and hands should beplaced on their laps.
Do not use any accessory seat covers.
(Continued)
WARNING
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 areseated on seats equipped with side
and/or curtain air bags.
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Why didn’t my air bag go off in a collision? (Inflation and non-infla-
tion conditions of the air bag)
There are many types of accidents in
which the air bag would not be expect-
ed to provide additional protection.
These include rear impacts, second or
third collisions in multiple impact
accidents, as well as low speedimpacts.
Air bag collision sensors
(1) SRS control module
(2) Front impact sensor (3) Side impact sensor (if equipped)
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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 intensi-
ty, speed or angles of impact of the frontcollision.
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 injuryor 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 sensors. We recommend that
the system be serviced by an
authorised Kia dealer.
(Continued)(Continued)
Problems may arise if the sensorinstallation angles are changed
due to the deformation of the
front bumper, body or B pillar and
C pillars where side collision sen-
sors are installed. We recommend
that the system be serviced by an
authorised Kia 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-gen-
uine parts may adversely affect
your vehicles collision and air
bag deployment performance.
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Side impact and curtain air bags
(if equipped)
Side impact and/or curtain air bags are designed to inflate when an impact is
detected by side collision sensorsdepending on the strength, speed orangles of impact resulting from a sideimpact collision.
Although the front air bags (driver’s and
front passenger’s air bags) are designed
to inflate only in frontal collisions, they
also may inflate in other types of colli-sions if the front impact sensors detect a
sufficient impact. Side air bags (side
impact and/or curtain air bags) aredesigned to inflate only in side impact
collisions, but they may inflate in othercollisions if the side impact sensorsdetect a sufficient impact.
If the vehicle chassis is impacted by
bumps or objects on unimproved roads
or sidewalks, air bags may deploy. Drive
carefully on unimproved roads or on sur-
faces not designed for vehicle traffic to
prevent unintended air bag deployment.
Air bag non-inflation conditions
In certain low-speed collisions the air
bags may not deploy. The air bags are
designed not to deploy in such cases
because they may not provide benefits
beyond the protection of the seat belts
in such collisions.
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• Glove box lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-125
Welcome system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-126 • Headlamp welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-126
• Interior light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-126
• Puddle lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-126
Defroster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-127 • Rear window defroster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-127
Manual climate control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-128 • Heating and air conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-129
• System operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-133
• Climate control air filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-135
• Checking the amount of air conditioner refrigerant and compressor lubricant . . . . . . . . . . 4-136
Automatic climate control system . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-137 • Automatic heating and air conditioning . . . . . . . . . 4-138
• Manual heating and air conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . 4-140
• System operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-145
• Climate control air filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-147
• Checking the amount of air conditioner refrigerant and compressor lubricant . . . . . . . . . . 4-148
Windscreen defrosting and defogging . . . . . . . . . 4-149 • Manual climate control system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-149
• Automatic climate control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-150
Clean air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-151
Storage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-152 • Centre console storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-152
• Sliding armrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-152
• Glove box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-153
• Cool box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-153 • Sunglass holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-154
• Luggage tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-154
• Luggage side tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-155
Interior features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-155 • Cigarette lighter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-155
• Ashtray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-156
• Cup holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-157
• Bottle holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-158
• Sunvisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-158
• Power outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-159
• Aux, USB and iPod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-160
• Clothes hanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-161
• Floor mat anchor(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-161
• Luggage net (holder) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-162
• Cargo area cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-162
• Barrier net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-163
• Cargo security screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-166
• Luggage rail system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-167
• Shopping bag holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-168
Exterior features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-169 • Mounting bracket for roof carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-169
• Roof rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-170
Audio system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-172 • Antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-172
• Audio remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-173
• How car audio works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-174
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Inside rearview mirror
Adjust the rearview mirror so that the
centre view through the rear window is
seen. Make this adjustment before you
start driving.
Day/night rearview mirror
(if equipped)
Make this adjustment before you start
driving and whilst the day/night lever is in
the day position.
Pull the day/night lever toward you to
reduce glare from the headlights of vehi-
cles behind you during night driving.
Remember that you lose some rearviewclarity in the night position.
Electric chromic mirror (ECM)(if equipped)
The electric rearview mirror automatical- ly controls the glare from the headlights
of the car behind you in nighttime or low
light driving conditions. The sensormounted in the mirror senses the light
level around the vehicle, and automati- cally controls the headlight glare from
vehicles behind you.
When the engine is running, the glare is
automatically controlled by the sensor
mounted in the rearview mirror.
Whenever the shift lever is shifted into R
(Reverse), the mirror will automatically
go to the brightest setting in order to
improve the drivers view behind the vehi-
cle.
MIRRORS
WARNING -
Rear visibility
Do not place objects in the rear
seat or cargo area which would
interfere with your vision out the
rear window.
CAUTION
When cleaning the mirror, use a paper towel or similar materialdampened with glass cleaner. Do
not spray glass cleaner directly onthe mirror as that may cause the liq- uid cleaner to enter the mirror hous-
ing.
WARNING
Do not adjust the rearview mirror
whilst the vehicle is moving. This
could result in loss of control, and
an accident which could cause
death, serious injury or property
damage.
WARNING
Do not modify the inside mirror and
do not install a wide mirror. It could
result in injury, during an accident
or deployment of the air bag.
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