General instrument panel
Operation
Gener a
l
instrument panel
Instrument panel Door release lever
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Central lock button / . . . . . . . . . 114
Switch for adjusting the exterior
mirror s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
– Exterior mirr or a
djustment
– Exterior mirror heating
– Folding exterior mirrors
Brightness regulation for instru-
ment panel and controls . . . . . . .130
Headlamp range adjustment . . .130
Light switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
– Light off
– Aut
omatic dipped beam head-
light control
– Side/dipped lights /
– Fog lights
Lever for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
– Main beam he
adlights
– Headlight flasher
– Turn signals
– Parking lights
Instrument panel:
1 2
3
4
5
6
7
8 –
Ins
truments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
– Digit
al di
splay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
– Warning and indic
ation lamps . . .107
Steering wheel with horn and – Driver airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
– On-bo
ard c
omputer controls . . . .27
– Contro
ls for radio, telephone,
navigation and speech dialogue
system ››› Booklet Radio
– Paddle levers for tiptronic gear-
shift (automatic gearbox) . . . . . . .196
Windscreen wiper/ windscreen
wash l
ever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
– Wind s
creen wipers –
– Intermittent wipe
– “Touch wipe” x
– Windscreen wipers
– Automatic windscreen
wash/wipe
– Rear window wiper system
– Automatic rear window
wash/wipe
– Lever with buttons for controlling
the SEAT information system –
/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Left seat heating controls . . . . . .147
Radio or navigation system (fitted
at fact
ory) ››› Booklet Radio or
››› Booklet Navigation system
9
10
11
12 Storage compartment
. . . . . . . . . . . . .166
Hazard warning lights switch . .134
Switches for: – Electr
onic
manual air condition-
ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
– Climatr
onic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Right seat heating controls . . . . . 147
Button for:
– Anti-slip r
egulation (ASR)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
– Star t
-Stop operation . . . . . . . . .208
– Parkin
g distance warning system
(ParkPilot) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
– Park As
sist system . . . . . . . . . .214
– Tyr
e pressure monitor . . . .234
– Dyn
amic chassis control (DCC)
– Opening the rear lid . . . . . . . . .124
– Opening and clo
sing of electric
sliding doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Locking handle to open glove com-
par tment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
P
osition of passenger front airbag
on the dash p
anel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Key-operated switch in glove com-
partment
for deactivating front pas-
senger front airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Passenger front airbag off warning
lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73»
13 14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
101
Technical data
Advice
Operation
Emergencies
Safety
Index
ESC electr
onic
stability control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Ethanol (fuel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Event Data Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Exhaust gas purification system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Exterior mirrors adjusting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
vehicle care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Exterior rear view mirrors control of the function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
electric exterior mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
exterior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
folding the rear view mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Exterior view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 8
Extinguisher driving with a trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
F Fabrics: cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Fastening rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Fault dynamic chassis control (DCC) . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
panoramic sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
park assist system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
parking distance warning system . . . . . . . . . . 212
rear assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Fault memory connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Filling capacities AdBlue tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Filling the tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264, 266
Fire extinguisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
First-aid kit storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Fitting tow hitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Floor mats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Fluid Level
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Folding down rear seats load space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Folding table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Folding the backrest of the front passenger seat 151
Folding wheel chocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Front airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Front passenger front airbag control lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
disconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Front seat manual adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Front wiper blades change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 267 consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
refuelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Fuel consumption why does fuel consumption increase? . . . . . . 203
Fuel gauge control lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
petrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Fuel tank cap opening and closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Fuel tank flap opening and closing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Function control tow hitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 91 fuse box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
identification using colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
identifying blown fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 preparation before replacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
repl
acing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
G
Gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 emergency release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Gearbox lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Gear change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 automatic gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36, 194
changing gears manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
gear recommendation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
manual gear change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
putting the vehicle in gear (automatic gear-box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
putting the vehicle in gear (manual gearbox) 193
Tiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Gear engaged . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
General instrument panel instrument panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
General overview of the engine compartment . . 274
Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Glove compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Glove compartment lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
H
Hand brake see Parking brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Hazard warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 134
Head-on collisions and the laws of physics . . . . . 64
Headlamp range adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Headlight range control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Headlights adaptive headlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
driving abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
headlight adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
headlight washers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
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