2016 KIA Sorento heating

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Driving your vehicle
Turn signals when towing a trailer
When you tow a trailer, your vehicle
has to have a different turn signal
flasher and extra wiring. The green
arrows on your instrument panel will
flash whenever you signal a turn or
lane change. Properly connected,
the trailer lights will also flash to alert
other drivers you’re about to turn,
change lanes, or stop.
When towing a trailer, the green
arrows on your instrument panel will
flash for turns even if the bulbs on the
trailer are burned out. Thus, you may
think drivers behind you are seeing
your signals when, in fact, they are
not. It’s important to check occasion-
ally to be sure the trailer bulbs are still
working. You must also check the
lights every time you disconnect and
then reconnect the wires.
Do not connect a trailer lighting sys-
tem directly to your vehicle’s lighting
system. Use only an approved trailer
wiring harness.
An authorized Kia dealer can assist
you in installing the wiring harness.
Driving on grades
Reduce speed and shift to a lower
gear before you start down a long or
steep downgrade. If you don’t shift
down, you might have to use your
brakes so much that they would get
hot and no longer operate efficiently.
On a long uphill grade, shift down
and reduce your speed to around 70
km/h (45 mph) to reduce the possi-
bility of engine and transaxle over-
heating.
If your trailer weighs more than the
maximum trailer weight without trail-
er brakes and you have an automat-
ic transaxle, you should drive in D
(Drive) when towing a trailer.
Operating your vehicle in D (Drive)
when towing a trailer will minimize
heat build up and extend the life of
your transaxle.CAUTION
Always use an approved trailerwiring harness. Failure to usean approved trailer wiring har-ness could result in damage tothe vehicle electrical system.
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Towing up hill
When towing a trailer on steep
grades (in excess of 6%) pay close
attention to the engine coolant
temperature gauge to ensure the
engine does not overheat.
If the needle of the coolant temper-
ature gauge moves across the dial
towards “H” (HOT), pull over and
stop as soon as it is safe to do so,
and allow the engine to idle until it
cools down. You may proceed once
the engine has cooled sufficiently.
You must decide driving speed depending on trailer weight and
uphill grade to reduce the possibil-
ity of engine and transaxle over-
heating.
Parking on hills
Generally, if you have a trailer
attached to your vehicle, you should
not park your vehicle on a hill. People
can be seriously or fatally injured,
and both your vehicle and the trailer
can be damaged if they unexpected-
ly roll downhill.
However, if you ever have to park
your trailer on a hill, here's how to do
it:
1.Pull the vehicle into the parkingspace. Turn the steering wheel in
the direction of the curb (right if
headed downhill, left if headed up
hill).
2.If the vehicle has an automatic transaxle, place the vehicle in P
(Park).
3.Set the parking brake and shut off the engine.
4.Place chocks under the trailer wheels on the down hill side of the
wheels. 5.Start the vehicle, hold the brakes,
shift to neutral, release the parking
brake and slowly release the
brakes until the trailer chocks
absorb the load.
6.Reapply the brakes, reapply the parking brake and shift the vehicle
to P (Park) for automatic transaxle.
7.Shut off the vehicle and release the vehicle brakes but leave the park-
ing brake set.
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Driving your vehicle
When you are ready to leave after
parking on a hill
1. With the automatic transaxle in P(Park), apply your brakes and hold
the brake pedal down while you:

and

2. Slowly remove your foot from the brake pedal.
3. Drive slowly until the trailer is clear of the chocks.
4. Stop and have someone pick up and store the chocks.Maintenance when trailer tow-
ing
Your vehicle will need service more
often when you regularly pull a trail-
er. Important items to pay particular
attention to include engine oil, auto-
matic transaxle fluid, axle lubricant
and cooling system fluid. Brake con-
dition is another important item to
frequently check. Each item is cov-
ered in this manual, and the Index
will help you find them quickly. If
you’re trailering, it’s a good idea to
review these sections before you
start your trip.
Don’t forget to also maintain your
trailer and hitch. Follow the mainte-
nance schedule that accompanied
your trailer and check it periodically.
Preferably, conduct the check at the
start of each day’s driving. Most
importantly, all hitch nuts and bolts
should be tight. When towing check transaxle fluid
more frequently.
CAUTION - Air condition
Do not use the A/C while usingyour vehicle to tow uphill. Dueto higher load during trailerusage, overheating might occuron hot days or during uphilldriving.
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What to do in an emergency
IF THE ENGINE OVERHEATS
If your temperature gauge indicates
overheating, you experience a loss
of power, or hear loud pinging or
knocking, the engine will probably be
too hot. If this happens, you should:
1.Pull off the road and stop as soonas it is safe to do so.
2.Place the shift lever in P (Park, automatic transaxle) and set the
parking brake. If the air condition-
ing is on, turn it off.
3.If engine coolant is running out under the vehicle or steam is com-
ing out from underneath the hood,
stop the engine. Do not open the
hood until the coolant has stopped
running or the steaming has
stopped. If there is no visible loss
of engine coolant and no steam,
leave the engine running and
check to be sure the engine cool-
ing fan is operating. If the fan is not
running, turn the engine off. 4.Check to see if the water pump
drive belt is missing. If it is not
missing, check to see that it is
tight. If the drive belt seems to be
satisfactory, check for coolant leak-
ing from the radiator, hoses or
under the vehicle. (If the air condi-
tioning had been in use, it is nor-
mal for cold water to be draining
from it when you stop).
5.If the water pump drive belt is bro- ken or engine coolant is leaking
out, stop the engine immediately
and call the nearest authorized Kia
dealer for assistance. 6.If you cannot find the cause of the
overheating, wait until the engine
temperature has returned to nor-
mal. Then, if coolant has been lost,
carefully add coolant to the reser-
voir to bring the fluid level in the
reservoir up to the halfway mark.
7.Proceed with caution, keeping alert for further signs of overheat-
ing. If overheating happens again,
call an authorized Kia dealer for
assistance.
Serious loss of coolant indicates
there is a leak in the cooling system
and this should be checked as soon
as possible by an authorized Kia
dealer.
WARNING - Under the hood
While the engine is running,
keep hair, hands and clothing
away from moving parts such
as the fan and drive belts to pre-
vent injury.
WARNING - Radiator cap
Do not remove the radiator cap
when the engine is hot. This
may result in coolant being
blown out of the opening and
cause serious burns.
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Index
3rd row air conditioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-147
Automatic heating and air conditioning. . . . . . . . . 4-141
Checking the amount of air conditionerrefrigerant and compressor lubricant . . . . . . . . . . 4-151
Climate control air filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-150
Manual heating and air conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . 4-142
System operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-148
Automatic transaxle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13 Automatic transaxle operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Good driving practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \
. . 7-47 Battery recharging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-48
For best battery service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-47
Recharging battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-49
Reset items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-49
Before driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4 Before entering vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Before starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Necessary inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Blind spot detection system (BSD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-72 BSD (Blind Spot Detection) /LCA (Lane Change Assist) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-73
Non-operating condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-78
RCTA (Rear Cross Traffic Alert) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-76
Brake fluid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-38\
Checking the brake fluid level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-38
Brake system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26 Anti-lock brake system (ABS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-39
AUTO HOLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-36
Electric parking brake (EPB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
Electronic stability control (ESC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-41
Good braking practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-47
Hill-start assist control (HAC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-46
Parking brake – Foot type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-28
Power brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26
Vehicle stability management (VSM) . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45
Bulb wattage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
Child restraint system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35 Child restraint system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-36
Lower anchor system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41
Tether anchor system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-40
Clean air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-\
156
Climate control air filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-42 Filter inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-42
Cruise control system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-49 To cancel cruise control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-51
To decrease the cruising speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-51
To increase cruise control set speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-50
To resume cruising speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-52
To set cruise control speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-50
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Index
Manual climate control system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1283rd row air conditioning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-134
Checking the amount of air conditioner refrigerantand compressor lubricant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-137
Climate control air filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-137
Heating and air conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-129
System operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-135
Mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \
. 4-58 Inside rearview mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-58
Outside rearview mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-68
Owner maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8 Owner maintenance schedule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8
Panoramic sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-50 Closing the sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-54
Resetting the sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-54
Sliding the sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-52
Sunroof open warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-51
Sunshade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-51\
Tilting the sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-53
Parking brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-39 Checking the parking brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-39 Power liftgate (tailgate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28
Closing the liftgate (tailgate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-30
Emergency liftgate (tailgate) safety release . . . . . . . 4-38
Opening the liftgate (tailgate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-29
Smart liftgate (tailgate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-34
Rear parking assist system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-108 Non-operational conditions of rearparking assist system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-109
Operation of the rear parking assist system . . . . . . 4-108
Rear parking assist system precautions . . . . . . . . . 4-110
Self-diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-111
Rearview camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-112
Recommended lubricants and capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6 Recommended SAE viscosity number. . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8
Road warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2 Hazard warning flasher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Scheduled maintenance service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \
3-24 Care of seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34
Pre-tensioner seat belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30
Seat belt precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-32
Seat belt restraint system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-24
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