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The tailgate will lock when you lock
the driver's door, and will unlock
when you unlock all doors.
You can change the‘‘DOOR LOCK
MODE ’’setting on the multi-
information display (see page 105).
To open the tailgate, press and hold
the switch, then lift up.
To close the tailgate, use the tailgate
handle or the pull pockets to lower
the tailgate, then press down on the
back edge.
Keep the tailgate closed at all times
while driving to avoid damaging the
tailgate and to prevent exhaust gas
from getting into the interior. See
Carbon Monoxide Hazard on page
57.
SWITCH
HANDLE PULL POCKET
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LOCK－Press this button once to
lock all doors and the tailgate. Some
exterior lights will flash. When you
push LOCK twice within 5 seconds,
you will hear a beep to verify that the
doors and tailgate are locked and the
security system has set. This button
does not work if any door or tailgate
is not fully closed.
To change the ‘‘KEYLESS LOCK
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ’’setting,
see page 107. UNLOCK
－Press this button once
to unlock the driver's door. Push it
twice to unlock the other doors.
Some exterior lights will flash twice
when you push the button. If you do
not open any door or the tailgate
within 30 seconds, they will
automatically relock.
To change the ‘‘DOOR LOCK
MODE ’’setting, see page 105.
To change the ‘‘SECURITY RELOCK
TIMER ’’setting, see page 109. When you press the UNLOCK
button, the ceiling lights (if the front
and rear ceiling light switches are in
the door activated position) will come
on. If you do not open any door, the
lights stay on for about 30 seconds,
then fade out. If you relock the doors
with the remote transmitter before 30
seconds have elapsed, the lights go
off immediately.
To change the
‘‘INTERIOR LIGHT
DIMMING TIME’’ setting, see page
98.
PANIC －Press this button for
about 1 second to attract attention;
the horn will sound, and the exterior
lights will flash for about 30 seconds.
To cancel panic mode, press any
button on the remote transmitter, or
turn the ignition switch to the ON
(II) position.
UNLOCK
BUTTON LOCK
BUTTON
PANIC
BUTTON
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In the door activated position, both
front and rear ceiling lights come on
when you:●Open any door.●Remove the key from the ignition
switch.●Unlock the doors with the key,
lock tab on the driver's door,
master door lock switch, or remote
transmitter.
After all doors are closed tightly, the
light(s) dims slightly, then fades out
in about 30 seconds. If you do not open any door after
unlocking the driver's door or
removing the key from the ignition
switch, the light(s) fade out in about
30 seconds. If you leave any door
open without the key in the ignition
switch, the light(s) will go off after 3
minutes.
To change the
‘‘INTERIOR LIGHT
DIMMING TIME ’’setting, see page
98. Individual Map Lights
You can use the front ceiling lights
whenever the lights are off.
To turn a light on or off, push its
lens.
LENSES
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Courtesy LightsThe courtesy lights in the ceiling
console come on when the parking
lights are turned on. You can adjust
their brightness by turning the
select/reset knob on the instrument
panel.
In addition to the courtesy lights on
the ceiling, the driver's and front
passenger's ambient foot lights come
on.The courtesy light in each front door
comes on when the door is opened,
and goes out when the door is
closed.
Your vehicle also has a courtesy light
in the ignition switch. This light
comes on when you:
●Open any door.●Unlock the driver's door.●Remove the key from the ignition
switch.
After all doors are closed tightly, the
light fades out in about 30 seconds.
To change the ‘‘INTERIOR LIGHT
DIMMING TIME ’’setting, see page
98. Cargo Area Light
The cargo area light has a two
position switch. In the OFF (right)
position, the light does not come on.
In the ON (left) position, the light
comes on when you open the
tailgate.
COURTESY LIGHTS
ON
OFF
Interior Lights
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Instruments and Controls
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Mode Button
Use the MODE button to select the
vents the air flows from. Some air will
flow from the dashboard corner
vents in all modes.
The mode indicator in the display
changes to the current mode each
time you press the button.
Air flows from the center and
corner vents in the dashboard.Airflow is divided between the
vents in the dashboard and the floor
vents.Air flows from the floor vents.Airflow is divided between the
floor vents and the defroster vents at
the base of the windshield. To Turn Everything Off
If you press the OFF button, the
climate control system shuts off
completely.
●Keep the system off for short
periods only.●To keep stale air and mustiness
from collecting, you should have
the fan running at all times.
When the climate control system is
turned off, the temperature in the
display will also turn off.
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Operating the XM Radio
To listen to the XM Radio, turn the
ignition switch to the ACCESSORY
(I) or ON (II) position. Push the
PWR/VOL knob to turn on the audio
system, and press the
button.
Adjust the volume by turning the
PWR/VOL knob. The last channel
you listened to will show on the
audio display.
DISP －Each time you press and
release the DISP/MODE button, the
center display changes in the
following sequence: Channel name,
category, artist name, and music title.
MODE －To switch between the
category mode and channel mode,
press and hold the DISP/MODE
button until the mode changes. A
‘‘ CH ’’(channel) or ‘‘CAT’’ (category)
mode indicator appears on the center
display. To Select a Channel
When in the satellite radio mode, you
can use any of four methods to find
channels: TUNE, SEEK/SKIP
(CATEGORY), SCAN, and the preset
bars.
TUNE
－Press the TUNE/FOLDER
bar to change channel selections.
Press the
side of the bar to tune
to higher numbered channels, and
the
side of the bar to tune to
lower numbered channels. In the
category mode, you can only select
channels within that category.
SEEK/SKIP (CATEGORY) －
Press either side of the SEEK/SKIP
(CATEGORY) bar (
or
)to
select another category. SCAN
－The scan function gives
you a sampling of all channels while
in the channel mode. In the category
mode, only the channels within that
category are scanned. To activate
scan, press the SCAN button. The
system plays each channel in
numerical order for a few seconds,
then selects the next channel. When
you hear a channel you want to
continue listening to, press the
button again.
Playing the XM
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Loading CDs in the Changer
To load multiple discs in one
operation:1. Press and hold the LOAD button on the changer unit until you hear
a beep. You will see ‘‘BUSY ’’on
the center display, and disc load
indicator turns red and starts
blinking.
2. Insert the disc into the disc slot when the disc load indicator turns
green and ‘‘LOAD ’’appears on the
center display at the same time.
Insert it only halfway; the drive will
pull it in the rest of the way. You
will see ‘‘BUSY ’’on the center
display, and the disc load indicator
turns red again and blinks as the
CD is loaded. 3. When the disc load indicator turns
green and ‘‘LOAD ’’appears on the
center display again, insert the
next CD in the slot.
Do not try to insert a disc until
‘‘ LOAD ’’appears. You could
damage the audio unit.
4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 until all six positions are loaded. If you are
not loading all six positions, press
the LOAD button again after the
last CD has loaded. ‘‘DISC READ ’’
appears on the center display, then
the system begins playing the last
CD loaded.
If you stop loading discs before all
six positions are filled, the system
will wait for 10 seconds, stop the load
operation, and begin playing the last
disc loaded. To load a single disc:
1. Press and release the LOAD
button on the changer unit. You
will see ‘‘BUSY ’’on the center
display, and the disc load indicator
turns red and starts blinking.
2. Insert a disc into the disc slot when the disc load indicator turns
green and ‘‘LOAD ’’appears on the
center display at the same time.
Insert the disc only about halfway;
the drive will pull it in the rest of
the way. You will see the disc
indicator blinking on the center
display.
Do not try to insert a disc until
‘‘ LOAD ’’appears. You could
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NOTE: If a file on an MP3 or WMA
disc is protected by digital rights
management (DRM), the audio unit
displays FORMAT, and then skips to
the next file.
If the disc has a complex structure, it
will take a while to read the disc
before the system begins to play it.
Depending on the software the files
were made with, it may not be
possible to play some files, or display
some text data.
Name Display FunctionEach time you press the DISP/
MODE button while playing a CD
(CD-DA), the center display changes
from album name, to track name, to
artist name, and then to normal
display. If the disc was not recorded
with CD-TEXT, ‘‘NO INFO ’’will be
shown on the center display.
When playing a disc compressed in
MP3/WMA format, the display
changes from folder name, to file
name, to artist tag, to album tag, to
track tag, and then to normal display
each time you press the DISP/
MODE button. If the disc was not
recorded with this information, ‘‘NO
INFO ’’will be shown on the center
display. If the title is too long, it will not show
all at once. Press and hold the DISP/
MODE button, and the rest of the
title will show on the center display.
You will also see the album and track
name (CD-TEXT), or the folder and
file name (MP3/WMA) under these
conditions:
●When you insert a disc, and the
system begins to play.●Each time a new track, file, or
folder plays.
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To Change or Select Tracks/FilesWhile a disc is playing you can use
the SEEK/SKIP bar to select
passages and change tracks (files in
MP3/WMA mode).
In MP3/WMA mode, use the
TUNE/FOLDER bar to select folders
on the disc, and use the SEEK/SKIP
bar to change files.SEEK/SKIP
－Each time you press
and release the
side of the
SEEK/SKIP bar, the system skips
forward to the beginning of the next
track (file in MP3/WMA mode).
Press and release the
side of the
bar to skip backward to the
beginning of the current track/file.
Press it again to skip to the
beginning of the previous track/file.
To move rapidly within a track/file,
press and hold the
or
side of
the SEEK/SKIP bar.
In MP3/WMA modeFOLDER SELECTION －To select
a different folder, press and release
the
side of the TUNE/FOLDER
bar to move to the beginning of the
next folder. Press and release the
side of the bar to move to the
beginning of the previous folder.
REPEAT －This feature, when
activated, continuously replays the
current track (file in MP3/WMA
mode). To activate it, press and
release the RPT button. You will see
‘‘ RPT ’’on the center display. To turn
off this feature, press the RPT button
for more than 2 seconds.
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In MP3/WMA modeFOLDER REPEAT－This feature,
when activated, replays all the files in
the current folder in the order they
are compressed in MP3/WMA. To
activate folder repeat mode, press the
RPT button twice. You will see ‘‘F-
RPT ’’on the center display. Press
and hold the RPT button for more
than 2 seconds to turn off this
feature.
DISC REPEAT －Press the RPT
button twice to continuously replay
the current CD. In MP3/WMA
mode, press the RPT button three
times. You will see ‘‘D-RPT ’’on the
center display. Press and hold the
RPT button for more than 2 seconds
to turn off this feature.
Each time you press and release the
RPT button, the mode changes from
repeat to folder repeat, disc repeat
then to normal play. SCAN
－The scan function samples
all the tracks (files in a folder in
MP3/WMA mode) on the current
disc in the order they are recorded
on the CD. To activate this feature,
press and release the SCAN button.
You will see ‘‘SCAN ’’and the track/
file number flashing on the center
display. The system will then play
the track/file for approximately 10
seconds. To hear the rest of the
track/file, press and hold the SCAN
button for more than 2 seconds. If
you do nothing, the system will then
play the following tracks/files for 10
seconds each. When the system
finishes scanning all the tracks/files
on the current disc, the system
returns to the track/file it first
started scanning with, scan is
canceled and the system begins to
play that track/file normally.
In MP3/WMA modeFOLDER SCAN －The folder scan
function samples the first file of each
folder on the current disc in the
order they are compressed in MP3/
WMA. To activate this feature, press
the SCAN button twice. The first file
of each folder plays for about 10
seconds. You will see ‘‘F-SCAN ’’and
the folder number flashing on the
center display. To hear the rest of the
file in the folder currently scanning,
press and hold the SCAN button for
more than 2 seconds. When the
system finishes scanning all the
folders on the current disc, the
system returns to the folder it started
scanning with, folder scan is
canceled and the system begins to
play that folder normally.
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