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Maintenance
NORMAL MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE
The following maintenance services must be performed to ensure good emission control and performance. Keep receipts for all
vehicle emission services to protect your warranty. Where both mileage and time are shown, the frequency of service is deter-
mined by whichever occurs first.
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1: Adjust alternator, water pump and air conditioner (if equipped)
drive belt. Inspect and if necessary repair or replace.
If drive belt noise occurred, readjust drive belt tension before
replace.
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2: Check the engine oil level and leak every 500 km (350
miles) or before starting a long trip.
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3: Driving in summer season temperature over 40 °C (104 °F
- SAUDI, UAE, OMAN, KUWAIT, BAHRAIN, QATAR, IRAN,
YEMEN ETC) or driving over 170 km/h (106 mile/h) must
conform the severe driving condition.
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4: For your convenience, it can be replaced prior to it's interval
when you do maintenance of other items.
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5: Inspect for excessive valve noise and/or engine vibration
and adjust if necessary. An authorised Kia dealer should
perform the operation.
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6: The fuel filter is considered to be maintenance free but peri-
odic inspection is recommended for this maintenance
schedule depends on fuel quality. If there are some impor-
tant matters like fuel flow restriction, surging, loss of power,
hard starting problem etc, replace the fuel filter immediate-
ly regardless of maintenance schedule and consult an
authorised Kia dealer for details.*
7: When adding coolant, use only deionized water or soft
water for your vehicle and never mix hard water in the
coolant filled at the factory. An improper coolant mixture can
result in serious malfunction or engine damage.
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8: Kia recommends that you use good quality petrols meet
Europe Fuel standards (EN228) or equivalents.
For customers who do not use good quality petrols includ-
ing fuel additives regularly, and have problems starting or
the engine does not run smoothly, one bottle of additives
added to the fuel tank at every 15,000km(For Europe and
New Zealand) / 5,000km(Except Europe and New Zealand)
is recommended.
Additves are available from your authorised Kia dealer
along with information on how to use them. Do not mix other
additves.
