2021 PEUGEOT 208 suspension

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Safety
5General safety
recommendations
Do not remove the labels attached in
different places on your vehicle. They
include safety warnings as well as
identification information for the vehicle.
For all work on your vehicle, use a
qualified workshop that has the technical
information, skills and equipment required, all
of which a PEUGEOT dealer is able to
provide.
Depending on country regulations,
certain safety equipment may be
mandatory: high visibility safety vests,
warning triangles, breathalysers, spare bulbs,
spare fuses, fire extinguisher, first aid kit, mud
flaps at the rear of the vehicle, etc.
Installing electrical accessories:
– The fitting of electrical equipment or
accessories not approved by PEUGEOT
may
cause excessive current consumption and
faults and failures with the electrical system
of your vehicle. Contact a PEUGEOT dealer
for information on the range of approved
accessories.
–

As a safety measure, access to the
diagnostic socket, used for the vehicle's
electronic systems, is reserved strictly for
PEUGEOT dealers or qualified workshops,
equipped with the special tools required (risk
of malfunctions of the vehicle's electronic
systems that could cause breakdowns or
serious accidents). The Manufacturer cannot
be held responsible if this advice is not
followed.
–

Any modification or adaptation not intended
or authorised by PEUGEOT

or carried out
without meeting the technical requirements
defined by the Manufacturer will result in the
suspension of the commercial warranty.
Installation of accessory radio
communication transmitters
Before installing a radio communication
transmitter with an external aerial, you must
without fail contact a PEUGEOT dealer for
the specification of transmitters which can
be fitted (frequency, maximum power, aerial
position, specific installation requirements),
in line with the Vehicle Electromagnetic
Compatibility Directive (2004/104/EC).
Declarations of conformity for radio
equipment
The relevant certificates are available on the
http://public.servicebox.peugeot.com/APddb/
website.
Hazard warning lamps



► Pressing this red button causes all the
direction indicators to flash.
They can work with the ignition switched off.
Automatic operation of hazard warning lamps
When braking in an emergency, depending on
the rate of deceleration, the hazard warning
lamps come on automatically. They switch off
automatically when you next accelerate.
They can be switched off by pressing the button.

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Driving
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► Press the control to display the modes on the
instrument panel, and depending on version, on
the screen with PEUGEOT
Connect Nav.
With an electric motor, you cannot select a mode
if the READY lamp is off.
When the message disappears, the selected
mode is activated and remains indicated on the
instrument panel (except Normal
mode).
Whenever the ignition is switched on,
Normal
driving mode is selected by default.
Normal
To restore the default settings.
Eco
To reduce energy consumption by reducing the
performance of the heating and air conditioning,
without deactivating them.
To further reduce the electrical energy
consumption of the traction battery by limiting the
engine torque.
Sport
To obtain more dynamic driving with action on
the power steering, Active Suspension Control,
accelerator and gear changes (with an automatic
gearbox) and the possibility of displaying the
vehicle’s dynamic settings on the instrument
panel.
Manual
Permanent Manual mode with an automatic
gearbox.
To change gears manually using the control
paddles on the steering wheel.
Coasting mode
Depending on version or engine, with an
EAT8 gearbox and the gear selector in mode
D, except in
Sport mode, gradually and fully
releasing the accelerator pedal allows free-
wheeling which can save fuel.
A drop in engine speed is normal (rev counter
at idle, drop in engine noise).
Hill start assist
This system keeps the vehicle briefly stationary
(for approximately 2 seconds) when making a hill
start, while you transfer your foot from the brake
pedal to the accelerator pedal.
The system is only active when:
–

The vehicle is completely stationary
, with your
foot on the brake pedal.
–

Certain slope conditions are met.
– The driver ’s door is closed.
Do not leave the vehicle while it is being
held temporarily by hill start assist.
If someone needs to get out of the vehicle
with the engine running, apply the parking
brake manually. Then check that the parking
brake indicator lamp and the P indicator lamp
in the electric parking brake control are on
fixed.
The hill start assist function cannot be deactivated. However, using the parking
brake to immobilise the vehicle interrupts its
operation.
Operation

Facing uphill, with the vehicle stationary,
the vehicle is held for a short time when the
driver releases the brake pedal:
–

If first gear or neutral is engaged on a manual
gearbox.

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Driving
The system status is saved when the ignition is switched off.
Cruise control
The driver must hold the steering wheel properly.
When cruise control is activated, the symbol is
displayed in green: by small steering actions,
the system directs the vehicle and keeps it in the
position chosen by the driver, in the traffic lane.
This position is not necessarily the centre of the
lane.
The driver can feel movements in the steering
wheel.
The driver can change the position of the vehicle
at any time, by turning the steering wheel, which
suspends the function. The driver positions the
vehicle where they wish to in the lane. When
the driver feels that the vehicle’s position is
appropriate, they maintain it until the function
is reactivated. The system regains control by
regulating on the new defined position.
Pausing/Suspending the
system
The driver must act promptly if they believe that the traffic conditions or the
state of the road surface require their
intervention, by moving the steering wheel to
temporarily suspend system operation. Any
intervention on the brake pedal that causes
the Adaptive cruise control to pause will also
cause the system to pause.
If the system detects that the driver is not
holding the wheel firmly enough, it
triggers a series of gradual alerts and then
deactivates itself if there is no response from
the driver.
If the function is suspended due to the
prolonged release of the force holding
the steering wheel, the function must be
reactivated by pressing the button again.
Automatic pause
– Triggering of the ESC.
– Prolonged failure to detect one of the lane limit
markings. In this case, the
Active lane departure
warning system function can take over, and the
system will reactivate itself once the operating
conditions are met again.
In response to action by the driver:
suspension
– Activation of the direction indicators.
– T ravelling outside the lane limits.
–

T
oo tight a grip on the steering wheel or
dynamic action on the steering wheel.
–

Action on the brake pedal (resulting in a pause
until cruise control is reactivated) or accelerator
pedal (suspension for as long as the pedal is
depressed).
–


Pausing of
Adaptive cruise control. –

Deactivation of the
ASR.
Driving situations and related alerts
The tables below describe the displays associated with the main driving \
situations.
The actual order of display of these alerts may be different.
Button indicator lamp Cruise control thumbwheelSymbols
Display Comments
Off CRUISE


(grey)


(grey)Cruise paused.
Lane positioning assist not activated.
Off CRUISE

(green)


(grey)Active cruise control.
Lane positioning assist not activated.
Green CRUISE

(green)


(green)Drive Assist Plus activated.
The system is operating normally
(correction is made at the steering wheel).
Green CRUISE
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(grey)


(grey)Drive Assist Plus paused.
Green CRUISE

(green)/(grey)


(grey)Drive Assist Plus activated.
All the operating conditions for lane
positioning assist have not been met.
Green OFF or LIMIT

(grey)


(grey)Cruise control deactivated.
All the operating conditions for lane
positioning assist have not been met.

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Alphabetical index
Side parking sensors 128
Silent vehicle warning sound (Electric)
66, 85
Smartphone

29, 52
Snow chains

102, 150–151
Snow screen

151
Socket, 12 V accessory

52
Socket, auxiliary

191, 202, 224
Socket, Jack

224
Speed limiter

107–109
Speed limit recognition

104, 106
Speedometer

9–10, 104
Sport mode

99
Spotlamps, side

60
Stability control (ESC)

68–69
Starting a Diesel engine

136
Starting the engine

86, 88
Starting the vehicle

86–87, 94–96
Starting using another battery

88, 176
Station, radio

189–190, 199–200, 223
Stay, bonnet

154
Steering mounted controls,
audio

187–188, 197, 210
Steering wheel, adjustment

43
Stickers, customising ~ Stickers,
expressive

162
Stopping the vehicle

86–88, 94–97
Stop & Start

25, 47, 50, 100–101, 136, 153, 157, 178
Storage

52
Storage box

55
Storage wells

55
Sunshine sensor

46
Sun visor

52Super-fast charging (Electric) 144–146, 185
Suspension
158
Switching off the engine

86, 88
Synchronising the remote control

36
T
Tables of engines 185
Tank, fuel
136–137
Technical data

182, 184–185
Telephone

192–193, 204–205, 226–228
Temperature, coolant

20
Thermal comfort consumption indicator
(Electric)

22
Thermal comfort equipment

22
Time (setting)

194, 206, 230
TMC (Traffic info)

217
Tool box

55
Tools

164–166
Topping-up AdBlue®

160
Top Tether (fixing)

78
Total distance recorder

23
Touch screen

25–26, 28, 51
Touch-sensitive reading lamps

54
Towball, quickly detachable

147–149
Towbar

69, 146
Towbar with quickly detachable
towball

147–149
Towed loads

181–182, 184
Towing another vehicle

178, 180
Traction battery (Electric)

22, 28,
137–138, 185
Traction control (ASR) 68–69
Traffic information (TMC)
217
Trailer

69, 146
Trailer stability assist (TSA)

69
Trajectory control systems

68
Triangle, warning

164
Trip computer

24–25
Trip distance recorder

23
Tyres

158, 186
Tyre under-inflation detection

102, 166
U
Under-inflation (detection) 102
Unlocking
30, 32
Unlocking from the inside

34
Unlocking the boot

33
Unlocking the doors

34
Unlocking the tailgate

33
Updating the date

207, 229
Updating the time

194, 206, 230
USB

191, 201, 203, 220, 224
V
Vehicle data recording and privacy 234
Ventilation
46
Video

225
Visibility

50
Visiopark 1

129
Voice commands

212–215