2015 Seat Alhambra driver seat adjustment

Safe driving
If your physical constitution prevents you
from maintaining the correct sitting position,
contact a specialised workshop for help with
any special devices. The seat belt and airbag
can only provide optimum protection if a cor-
rect sitting position is adopted. SEAT recom-
mends taking your car in for technical serv-
ice.
For your own safety and to reduce the risk of
injury in the event of an accident or sudden
braking or manoeuvre, SEAT recommend the
following positions:
Valid for all vehicle occupants:
● Adjust the head restraint so that its upper
edge is at the same level as the top of your
head, or as close as possible to the same lev-
el as the top of your head and under no cir-
cumstances below eye level. Keep the back
of your neck as close as possible to the head
restraint ››› Fig. 1 and
›
›› Fig. 2.
● Short people must lower the head restraint
completely, even if your head is below its up-
per edge.
● Tall people must raise the head restraint
completely.
● Adjust the seat backrest to an upright posi-
tion so that your back rests completely
against it.
● Always keep your feet in the footwell while
the vehicle is in motion. ●
Adjust and fasten your seat belt correctly
››› page 14.
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so valid for the driver:
● Adjust the steering wheel so that there is a
distance of at least 25 cm (10 inches) be-
tween it and your chest ››› Fig. 1 and so that
you c

an hold the steering wheel with both
hands on the outside of the ring at the 9
o'clock and 3 o'clock positions with your
arms slightly bent.
● The adjusted steering wheel must face your
chest and not your face.
● Adjust the driver seat forwards or back-
wards so that you are able to press the accel-
erator, brake and clutch pedals to the floor
with your knees slightly angled and the dis-
tance between your knees and the dash pan-
el is at least 10 cm (4 inches) ››› Fig. 1
.
● Adjust the height of the driver seat so that
you can easily reach the top of the steering
wheel.
● Keep both feet in the footwell so that you
have the vehicle under control at all times.
Also valid for the front passenger:
● Move the front passenger seat back as far
as possible for optimum protection should
the airbag deploy. Adjusting the steering wheel position
Fig. 3
Mechanical steering wheel adjustment Adjust the steering wheel before your trip
and only when the vehicle is stationary.
●
Push the lever ››› Fig. 3 1 downwards.
● Adjust the steering wheel so that you can
hold onto the steering wheel with both hands
on the outside of the ring at the 9 o'clock and
3 o'clock positions and your arms slightly
bent.
● Push the lever firmly upwards until it is
flush to the steering column ››› .
WARNING
Incorrect use of the steering wheel adjust-
ment function and an incorrect adjustment of
the steering wheel can result in severe or fa-
tal injury.
● After adjusting the steering column, push
the lever ››› Fig. 3 1 firmly upwards to
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Safety
ensure the steering wheel does not acciden-
tally change position while driving.
●
Never adjust the steering wheel while the
vehicle is in motion. If you need to adjust the
steering wheel while the vehicle is in motion,
stop safely and make the proper adjustment.
● The adjusted steering wheel should be fac-
ing your chest and not your face so as not to
hinder the driver's front airbag protection in
the event of an accident.
● When driving, always hold the steering
wheel with both hands on the outside of the
ring at the 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock positions
to reduce injuries when the driver's front air-
bag deploys.
● Never hold the steering wheel at the 12
o'clock position or in any other manner (e.g.
in the centre of the steering wheel). In such
cases, if the driver's airbag deploys, you may
sustain injuries to your arms, hands and
head. Danger of injuries due to an incorrect
sitting position
Number of seats
Depending on the equipment, your vehicle
has a total of
five or
seven seats. Each seat is
equipped with a seat belt.
EquipmentSeats in
the frontSeats in the sec-
ond rowSeats in
the third row
5 seats23–
7 seats232 If the seat belts are worn incorrectly or not at
all, the risk of severe injuries increases. Seat
belts can provide optimal protection only if
the belt web is properly worn. Being seated
in an incorrect position means the seat belt
cannot offer its full protection. This could re-
sult in severe and even fatal injuries. The risk
of severe or fatal injuries is especially height-
ened when a deploying airbag strikes a vehi-
cle occupant who has assumed an incorrect
sitting position. The driver is responsible for
all passengers in the vehicle, particularly
children.
The following list shows just some examples
of incorrect sitting positions which can be
dangerous to all vehicle occupants.
Whenever the vehicle is in motion:
●
Never stand in the vehicle.
● Never stand on the seats.
● Never kneel on the seats.
● Never tilt your seat backrest too far to the
rear.
● Never lean against the dash panel. ●
Never lie on the rear bench.
● Never sit on the front edge of a seat.
● Never sit sideways.
● Never lean out of a window.
● Never put your feet out of a window.
● Never put your feet on the dash panel.
● Never put your feet on the surface of a seat
or seat backrest.
● Never travel in a footwell.
● Never sit on the armrests.
● Never travel on a seat without wearing the
seat belt.
● Never carry any person in the luggage com-
partment. WARNING
An incorrect sitting position in the vehicle
can lead to severe injuries or death in the
event of sudden braking or manoeuvres, colli-
sion or accidents or if the airbag deploys.
● Before the vehicle moves, assume the prop-
er sitting position and maintain it throughout
the trip. This also includes fastening the seat
belt.
● Never transport more people than there are
seats with a seat belt available in the vehicle.
● Children must always be protected with an
approved child restraint system suited to
their height and weight ››› page 26,
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Safe driving
●
Always keep your feet in the footwell while
the vehicle is in motion. Never, for example,
put your feet on the surface of a seat or on
the dash panel and never put them out of a
window. Otherwise the airbag and seat belt
offer insufficient protection and the risk of in-
jury in the event of an accident is increased. WARNING
Before every trip, adjust the seat, the seat
belt and the head restraints and instruct your
passengers to fasten their seat belts proper-
ly.
● Move the front passenger seat back as far
as possible.
● Adjust the driver seat so that there is a dis-
tance of at least 25 cm (10 inches) between
the centre of your chest and the hub of the
steering wheel. Adjust the driver seat so that
you are able to press the accelerator, brake
and clutch pedals to the floor with your knees
slightly angled and that the distance be-
tween your knees and the dash panel is at
least 10 cm (4 inches). If your physical consti-
tution prevents you from meeting these re-
quirements, contact a specialised workshop
to make any modifications required.
● Never drive with the seat backrest tilted far
back. The further the seat backrests are tilted
to the rear, the greater the risk of injury due
to incorrect positioning of the belt web or to
the incorrect sitting position!
● Never drive with the seat backrest tilted
forwards. Should a front airbag deploy, it could throw the seat backrest backwards and
injure the passengers of the rear seats.
●
Sit as far away as possible from the steer-
ing wheel and the dash panel.
● Keep your back straight and resting com-
pletely against the seat backrest and the
front seats correctly adjusted. Never place
any part of your body in the area of the airbag
or very close to it.
● If passengers on the rear seats are not sit-
ting in an upright position, the risk of severe
injury due to incorrect positioning of the belt
web increases. WARNING
Incorrect seat adjustment may lead to acci-
dents and severe injuries.
● Only adjust the seats when the vehicle is
stationary, as the seats could move unex-
pectedly while the vehicle is in motion and
you could lose control of the vehicle. Further-
more, an incorrect position is adopted when
adjusting the seat.
● Only adjust the height, seat backrest and
forwards or backwards position of the seat
when there is nobody in the seat adjustment
area.
● There must be no objects blocking the seat
adjustment area.
● Only adjust the height, angle and longitu-
dinal position of the rear seats when nobody
is in the way. ●
The seat adjustment and lock areas must
be kept clean. Pedal area
Pedals Do not allow floor mats or other objects to
obstruct the free passage of the pedals.
Floor mats should leave the pedal area free
and unobstructed and be correctly secured in
the footwell zone.
In the event of failure of a brake circuit, the
brake pedal must be pressed harder than
normal to brake the vehicle.
WARNING
Objects falling into the driver's footwell could
prevent use of the pedals. This could lead the
driver to lose control of the vehicle, increas-
ing the risk of a serious accident.
● Make sure the pedals can be used at all
times, with no objects rolling underneath
them.
● Always secure the mat in the footwell.
● Never place other mats or rugs on top of
the original mat supplied by the factory.
● Ensure that no objects can fall into the driv-
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Cockpit
Operation
Cockpit Overview Door release lever
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Central lock button    . . . . . . . . . . 57
Switch for adjusting the exterior
mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
– Exterior mirror adjustment     
– Heated exterior mirrors 
– Folding exterior mirrors 
Instrument panel controls and light-
ing control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Headlamp range adjustment  . . . 74
Light switch  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
– Light off - -
– Automatic dipped beam head-
light control - -
– Side/dipped lights  
– Fog lights  
Controls on the multi-function
steering wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
– Volume control for radio, naviga-
tion system and phone conversa-
tions  – 
– Radio mute or voice control acti-
vation 
1 2
3
4
5
6
7 –
Activate telephone main menu or
accept an incoming call 
– SEAT information system control
buttons , 
, OK,

Lever for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
– Main beam headlights 
– Headlight flasher 
– Turn signals 
– Parking lights 
Instrument panel: – Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
– Digital display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
– Control and warning lamps . . . . . .45
Horn (works only when the ignition
is on)/Front driver airbag . . . . . . . . .20
Windscreen wiper/ windscreen
wash lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
– Windscreen wipers  – 
– Intermittent wipe 
– “Brief wipe”  x
– Windscreen wipers 
– Automatic windscreen wash/wipe

– Rear window wiper 
– Automatic rear window
wash/wipe 
8
9
10
11 –
Lever with buttons for controlling
the SEAT information system - ,
 /
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
L ef

t seat heating controls  . . . . . . . 93
Radio or navigation system (fitted
at factory) ››› Booklet Radio or
››› Booklet Navigation system
Storage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . .112
Hazard warning lights switch  . . . 242
Switches for: – Electronic manual air condition-
ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
– Climatronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Right seat heating controls  . . . . . 93
Button for: – Anti-slip regulation (ASR)  . .137
– Start-Stop operation  . . . . . . . . . .156
– Parking distance warning system
(Park Pilot)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
– Park Assist system  . . . . . . . . . . . 162
– Tyre pressure monitor   . . . . .177
– Opening the rear lid  . . . . . . . . .66
– Opening and closing of electric
sliding doors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Locking lever to open glove com-
partment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Position of passenger front airbag
on the dash panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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Operation
Submenu ConvenienceConven-
ience
menuFunction
Central
locking
››› page
57
Auto. lock (Auto Lock): automatic locking of
all doors and boot when reaching a speed
of approximately 15 km/h (10 mph). In or-
der to unlock the vehicle when it is stop-
ped, push the central locking button, pull
the door handle or remove the key from the
ignition lock if the Auto unlock function is
enabled.
Auto unlock (Auto Lock): Unlocking all doors and the boot by removing the ignition lock
key.
Door unlock: when unlocking the vehicle
with the key, the following doors unlock
based on the setting:
– All: all of the doors are unlocked.
– One door: when unlocking the vehicle with the key, only the driver's door unlocks.
Pressing the button
 again unlocks all
doors and the boot.
– Vehicle side: the doors on the driver's side
unlock.
On vehicles fitted with the Keyless Access
››› page 57 system, when using the corre-
sponding handle, all doors unlock on the
side of the vehicle where the key is.
Handling
windows
Adjusting the electric windows: this ena-
bles the windows to be opened or closed
when the vehicle is unlocked or locked re-
spectively. The open function can only be
activated from the driver door ››› page 70.
Conven-
ience
menuFunction
Rear vi-
sion mir-
ror ad-
justmentTilts passenger mirror downwards when re-
verse gear is engaged. This enables the
driver to see the edge of the pavement, for
example ››› page 85.
Exterior
mirror ad-
just.If synchronised adjustment is selected,
when the driver side exterior mirror is ad-
justed, the passenger exterior mirror is also
moved.
Factory
settingsSome functions of the Convenience subme-
nu will be reset to the factory value.
BackThe Configuration menu is displayed again. Lights & visibility
submenu
Lights &
visibility
menuFunction
Coming
HomeThis permits the adjustment of the time the
headlamps stay on after locking or unlock-
ing the vehicle, the function can also be
connected or disconnected here
››› page 78.
Leaving
Home
Footwell
lightThis permits the adjustment of the bright-
ness of the footwell lighting when the doors
are open, the function can also be connec-
ted or disconnected here
Lights &
visibility
menuFunction
Conven-
ience turn
signalsSwitching convenience turn signals on and
off When the convenience turn signals are
connected,, these flash at least three times
when the turn signal is switched on
››› page 74.
Factory
settingsAll the configurations in the submenu
Lights & visibility are reset to the prede-
fined factory values.
Tourist
light
Headlamp adjustment for countries in
which vehicles are driven on the other side
of the road. When the mark is activated, the
headlamps of a left-hand drive vehicle are
adjusted for driving on the left. This func-
tion must only be used for a short period.
BackThe Configuration menu is displayed again. Personal convenience settings
When two people use a vehicle, SEAT recom-
mends that each person always uses “their”
own remote control key. When the ignition is
switched off, or the vehicle is locked, the per-
sonal convenience settings are stored and
automatically allocated to the vehicle key
››› page 47 .
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alues of the personalised convenience
settings of the following menu options are al-
located to the vehicle key:
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Driver assistance systems
● when a sporty driving style is employed,
● in the event of a major distraction for the
driver,
The tiredness detection function switches off
when the ignition is switched off or when the
driver unbuckles their seat belt and opens
the door. If driving for a long time under 65
km/h (40 mph), the system ceases to assess
tiredness automatically. If driving speed is
then increased, the behaviour at the wheel
will again be evaluated.
Tyre monitoring systems
Introduction The tyre monitor indicator monitors the tyre
pressure of each wheel during driving using
the ABS sensors. The ABS sensors monitor
the tyre tread perimeter and vibrations of
each tire. The tyre monitor indicator warns
the driver if it detects a considerable drop in
tyre pressure of one or several tyres while
driving. Loss of tyre pressure will be indica-
ted by the indicator
 as well as an audible
warning and sometimes a text message on
the dash panel display. When you open the
driver door, you will find a label indicating
the tyre pressure recommended by the manu-
facturer for the maximum vehicle load for
each tyre approved for the vehicle in ques-
tion. By pressing the adjustment button on the tyre monitoring indicator, you may
change the reference pressure for the tyres
so that the tyre pressure coincides with ac-
tual pressure
››› page 179 .
S uit
able use of the adjustment button
››› page 179. WARNING
Unsuitable handling of the wheels and tyres
may lead to sudden tyre pressure losses, to
tread separation or even to a blow-out.
● Check tyre pressures regularly and ensure
they are maintained at the pressures indica-
ted. If the tyre pressure is too low, the tyres
could overheat, resulting in tread detachment
or even burst tyres.
● Tyre pressure should be that indicated on
the label when the tyres are cold at all times
››› page 235.
● Re

gularly check the cold inflation pressure
of the tyres. If necessary, change the tyre
pressure of the vehicle tyres while they are
cold.
● Regularly check your tyres for damage and
wear.
● Never exceed the maximum permitted
speed or loads specified for the type of tyre
fitted on your vehicle. WARNING
Incorrect use of the tyre monitoring indicator
button could result in the indicator giving er- roneous messages or prevented from indicat-
ing the danger caused by a defective tyre
››› page 179. CAUTION
● The tyre valves may be damaged if the cap
is not in place. Check that the caps are identi-
cal to the standard caps and have been cor-
rectly tightened. Do not use metal caps
››› page 179.
● Do not damage the valves when changing
the tyres ››› page 179
. For the sake of the environment
Under-inflated tyres lead to increased fuel
consumption and tyre wear. Note
● Do not only rely on the tyre monitoring sys-
tem. Regularly check your tyres to ensure
that the tyre pressure is correct and that the
tyres are not damaged due to puncture, cuts,
tears and impacts/dents. Remove objects
from the tyres only when the tyres have not
been pierced by these.
● The tyre monitoring system is set to the
tyre pressure recommended by the manufac-
turer and indicated on the label ››› Fig. 175. 177
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Towing bracket device
●
With the engine running, the electrical
equipment on the trailer will be supplied with
power. Loading the trailer
Trailer weight / drawbar load
The trailer weight is the load that the vehicle
can pull
››› . The drawbar load is the vertical
weight of the tow hitch on the tow hitch ball
››› page 188.
The figur e
s for trailer weights and drawbar
load weights given on the data plate of the
tow hitch are for values of this model only.
The correct figures for your specific vehicle,
which may be lower than these figures for the
t o

w hitch, are given in the vehicle documen-
tation. The instructions in the official vehicle
documents take precedence.
For the sake of road safety, SEAT recom-
mends using the maximum allowed drawbar
load
. The handling of the combined vehicle
and trailer will be poor if the drawbar load is
too low.
The drawbar load increases the weight on the
rear axle, reducing the vehicle carrying ca-
pacity.
Gross combination weight
This figure refers to the combined weight of
the loaded vehicle and loaded trailer. Loading the trailer
The combined vehicle and trailer must be
balanced. Use the maximum drawbar load
authorised and do not overload the front or
the rear of the trailer:
●
Distribute loads in the trailer so that heavy
objects are as near to the axle as possible or
above it.
● Correctly secure the trailer load.
Tyre pressure
Inflate the trailer tyres according to the man-
ufacturer's instructions.
Inflate the towing vehicles tyres to the maxi-
mum ››› page 231. WARNING
Exceeding the maximum authorised axle
load, drawbar load or the gross combination
weight of the towing vehicle and trailer could
cause a serious accident with severe conse-
quences.
● Never exceed the specifications.
● With the actual load on the front and rear
axles, the maximum axle load should never
be exceeded. The weight on the front and rear
should never exceed the gross vehicle
weight. WARNING
If the load moves, the stability and safety of
the vehicle and trailer combination will be se-
riously affected and this could result in a seri-
ous accident.
● Always correctly load the trailer.
● Always secure loads correctly with suitable
and undamaged attachment rope or straps. Driving with a trailer
Adjusting the headlights
When towing a trailer, the front of the vehicle
may rise and so the dipped beam headlights
may blind other drivers. Use the headlight
range control to lower the cone of light. If you
do not have headlight range control, have
the headlights adjusted by a specialised
workshop. Vehicles with high-intensity dis-
charge lamps adapt automatically and do not
require adjustment.
Details of driving with a trailer
● If the trailer has an overrun brake, apply
the brakes gently at first and then, firmly.
This will prevent the jerking that can be
caused by the trailer wheels locking.
● As of the combined vehicle and trailer
mass, braking distances will be greater.
● Select a low gear before driving down a
steep hill to use the engine braking effect to »
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