2015 Seat Leon 5D air conditioning

Air conditioning
Air recirculation mode Basic pointsAir recirculation:

Manual recirculation
Air recirculation mode prevents the ambient
air from ent
erin

g the interior.
When the outside temperature is very high,
selecting manual air recirculation mode for a
short period refreshes the vehicle interior
more quickly.
For safety reasons, air recirculation mode is
switched off when the button  is press-
ed or the air distributor turned to .
Switching the manual air recirculation mode
on and off 
To switch system on: press the  button un-
til the warning lamp lights up.
To switch system off: press the  button un-
til the warning lamp goes off.
Functioning mode of automatic air recircula-
tion (air conditioning menu)
With the automatic air recirculation mode ac-
tivated, the entry of fresh air into the cabin
interior is enabled. If the system detects a
high concentration of hazardous substances
in the ambient air, air recirculation mode is
switched on automatically. When the level of impurities drops to within a normal range, re-
cir
c

ulation mode is switched off.
The system is unable to detect unpleasant
smells.
The air recirculation will not connect auto-
matically in versions without humidity sensor
and in the following external conditions:
● The outside temperature is lower than +3°C
(+38°F).
● The cooling system is switched off and the
outside temper
ature is below +10°C (+50°F).
● The cooling system is switched off, the out-
side temper
ature is below +15°C (+59°F) and
the windscreen wipers are switched on.
Activation/deactivation of automatic air recir-
culation is done in the air conditioner menu,
under Configuration. WARNING
Observe the safety warnings ›››
in Intro-
duction on pag e 160
.
● If the cooling system is switched off and air
recir
culation mode switched on, the windows
can mist over very quickly, considerably limit-
ing visibility.
● Switch air recirculation mode off when it is
not requir
ed. CAUTION
Do not smoke when air recirculation is
swit c

hed on in vehicles with an air condition-
er. The smoke taken in could lie on the cool-
ing system vaporiser and on the activated
charcoal cartridge of the dust and pollen fil-
ter, leading to a permanently unpleasant
smell. Note
Climatronic: air recirculation mode is activa-
ted t o pr

event exhaust gas or unpleasant
odours from entering the vehicle interior
when it is in reverse and while the automatic
windscreen wiper is working. 163
Technical data
Advice
Operation
Emergencies
Safety

Driver assistance systems
In the FR and X-PERIENCE models equipped
w ith dy
n
amic chassis control and Navi Sys-
tem Plus, the Comfort profile is also
available.
In the Leon Cupra model the four profiles are Comfort , Sport, Cupra and Individual .
The Individual profile can be configured
according to personal preferences. The other
profiles are fixed.
Description Depending on the equipment fitted in the ve-
hic
l
e,

SEAT Drive Profile can operate on the
following functions:
Engine
Depending on the profile selected, the en-
gine responds more spontaneously or more
in harmony with the movements of the accel-
erator. Additionally, when Eco mode is selec-
ted, the Start-stop function is automatically
activated.
In vehicles with automatic transmission, the
gear change points are modified to position
them in lower or higher engine speed ranges.
Additionally, the Eco 1)
mode activates the In- ertia function, enabling consumption to be
further r

educed.
In manual gearbox vehicles, Eco1)
mode cau-
ses the gear change recommendation indica-
tions that appear on the instrument panel to
vary, facilitating more efficient driving.
Dynamic chassis control (DCC)

››› table on page 2
DCC continuously adapts the shock absorb-
ers to the condition of the road and current
driving conditions, according to the pre-set
programme.
In the event of a fault in the DCC, the follow-
ing message is displayed on the instrument
screen Fault: damping setting .
Address
Power steering becomes more robust in
Sport mode to enable a sportier driving
style. In the Leon Cupra the power steering
becomes more robust in Cupra mode.
Air conditioning
In vehicles with Climatronic, this can operate
in eco 1)
mode, especially restricting fuel con-
sumption. Ambient lighting
The ambient lightin
g guides located in the in-
terior front door panels of the Leon FR and
the Leon Cupra change colour from white to
red depending on the driving mode selected.
Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) 2)
According to the active driving profile, the ac-
celeration gradient of the adaptive cruise
control varies.
Electronic self-locking differential 2)
The self-locking differential adapts its behav-
iour depending on the driving profile chosen.
Normal mode or Cupra mode can be selected
to prioritise improved traction in sport driv-
ing. 1)
In the Leon Cupra model, Ec o
mode is selected
through the Individual profile.
2) Applies to the Leon Cupra model.
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Technical data
Advice
Operation
Emergencies
Safety

Index
Index
A
ABS se
e
Anti-lock brake system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
ACC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 radar sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147, 230
Adaptive cruise control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 indications on the display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
radar sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
special driving situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
warning and indication lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Adaptive Cruise Control deactivating temporarily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
operating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Additional electrical appliances (efficiency pro- gramme) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Adjusting front seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Adjusting the head restraints front head restraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Adjustment CAR menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
front head restraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70, 141
lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
rear head restraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70, 141
seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Airbag system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 77 activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
deactivation of front airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
front airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 79
functioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 head-protection airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Knee airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
19
side airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Air conditioning Climatronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 159
heating and fresh air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
manual air conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
User instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Air outlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Air recirculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Alcantara: cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
All-wheel drive snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Ambient lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Anti-freeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anti-lock brake system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Anti-puncture kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 86 check after 10 minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
inflating a tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
sealing a tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anti-theft alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 vehicle interior monitoring and anti-tow sys-tem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Anti-theft alarm system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Anti-theft security system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 119
Anti-tow protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Aspects to take into account before starting the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
ASR see Traction control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Assistance systems cruise control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
front assist monitoring system . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
parking aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Parking aid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 tiredness detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
traffic s
ign detection system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
tyre monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
tyre monitoring indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
tyre monitoring system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Assisted starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Assist systems ACC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
adaptive cruise control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Audible signal lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Audible warning signal seat belt not fastened . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
warning and indication lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Auto Lock (central locking) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Automatic dipped beam control . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Automatic gear Safety interlock for ignition key . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Automatic gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 backup programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
downhill speed control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
driving tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
kick-down feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
launch control programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
manual release of selector lever . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
selector lever lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
selector lever positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Steering wheel with gearshift paddles . . . . . . 170
tiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167, 170
AUX-IN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
B Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Before starting the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Belt tightening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Bench seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Biodiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
293

Index
Journey data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 dat
a s
ummary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Jump leads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
K Key-operated switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Keys Assign key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
car key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
driver messages (mechanical contact) . . . . . . 164
remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
spare key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Synchronising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
unlocking and locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 118
Kick-down automatic gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
manual gear change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Knee airbags safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
L Lane Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 cleaning the camera area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Lane Assist System see Lane Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Launch control programme (automatic gearbox) 172
Leather: care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Leaving Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Level control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Lifting the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Light Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Lighting of the instrument panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 128 audible signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
AUTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 changing a bulb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
coming home
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
cornering lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Daytime running lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
dipped beam headlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Hazard warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Headlight range control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
interior lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
leaving home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
light control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
lighting of the instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
lighting of the switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
main beam lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
main beam lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
main beams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Motorway light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
parking lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
reading lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
side lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
turn signal lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Load compartment in the luggage compartment see Loading the luggage compartment . . . . . 148
Loading the luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Loading the vehicle fastening rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
roof carrier system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
tailboard for transporting long items . . . . . . . 153
Locking and unlocking in the door cylinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
with the central locking switch . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Luggage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
automatic lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
luggage compartment lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
luggage compartment variable floor . . . . . . . . 156
net bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
net partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151, 152
rear shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
retractable rear shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
storing the rear shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Unlocking manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
see also Loading the luggage compartment . 148
Luggage compartment floor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Luggage compartment variable floor . . . . . . . . . 156
Luggage net luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Lumbar support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
M Main beam assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Main beam lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Main panel turn signal and main beam lever . . . . . . . . . . . 129
maintenance intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Malfunction Adaptive cruise control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
clutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
front assist monitoring system . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Manual air conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Manual gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Manual unlocking and locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Mobile telephones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Model plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Moving off Hill driving assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
298