key battery Seat Leon SC 2013 User Guide
[x] Cancel search | Manufacturer: SEAT, Model Year: 2013, Model line: Leon SC, Model: Seat Leon SC 2013Pages: 339, PDF Size: 4.8 MB
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Checking and refilling levels
Wear eye protection.
Battery acid is very corrosive and caustic. Wear protective gloves
and eye protection. In the event of electrolyte splashes, rinse off
with plenty of water.
Fires, sparks, open flames and smoking are prohibited.
The battery should only be charged in a well-ventilated zone. Risk
of explosion!
Keep children away from acid and batteries!
WARNING
● When repairing or working on the electrical system, proceed as fol-
lows:
● 1. Remove the key from the ignition. The negative cable on the bat-
tery must be disconnected.
● 2. When the repair is finished, reconnect the negative pole of the bat-
tery.
● Switch off all electrical consumers before reconnecting the battery.
Reconnect first the positive cable and then the negative cable. Never re-
verse the polarity of the connections. This could cause an electrical fire.
● Ensure that the vent hose is always connected to the battery.
● Never use damaged batteries. This could cause an explosion! Replace
a damaged battery immediately.
CAUTION
● Never disconnect the battery if the ignition is switched on or if the en-
gine is running. This could damage the electrical system or electronic com-
ponents. Charging the battery
Terminals for charging the battery are fitted in the engine
compartment.
–
Note the warnings ⇒
in Important safety warnings for han-
dling a vehicle battery on page 261 and ⇒ .
– Switch off all electrical equipment. Remove the ignition key.
– Raise the bonnet ⇒ page 252.
– Open the battery cover.
– Connect the charger clamps as described to the positive pole of
the battery (+) and, exclusively to an earth on the bodywork
(–).
– Only use a charger which is compatible for use with 12 V nomi-
nal voltage batteries. The charge must not exceed a voltage of
15 V.
– Now connect the battery charger to the power socket and switch
on.
– After charging the battery: switch off the battery charger and
disconnect the power socket cable.
– Finally disconnect the charger cables from the battery.
– Replace the battery cover correctly.
– Close the bonnet ⇒ page 253.
Important: Before you charge the battery make sure you read the manufac-
turer's instructions for using the battery charger.
Safety FirstOperating instructionsPractical TipsTechnical specifications
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Balanced (wheels) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Ball coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260Assisted starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Charge Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Charging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Disconnecting/Connecting . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Winter conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Before starting the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Bench seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Biodiesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Brake fluid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Brake servo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
New brake pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Braking Brake assist system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Hill driving assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
C
Carbon components: Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Care of vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Care (paint care) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Catalytic converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
CD-ROM player (navigation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Central locking Anti-theft alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Central locking switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Electric windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Remote control key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Selective unlocking system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Sliding/tilting sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Central locking system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Manual locking in an emergency . . . . . . . . 99
Rear lid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Cetane number (Diesel fuel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Changing Windscreen and rear window wiper blades . .263
Changing a bulb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Bulb sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Changing gear Engaging gears (manual gearbox) . . . . . . 172
Manual gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Changing main headlight main beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
turn signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Changing main headlight bulbs daylight bulb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Dipped beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Changing the battery of the vehicle key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Chassis number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Child-proof lock Electric windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Child safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Child seat Categorisation in groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Group 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Group 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Group 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Groups 0 and 0+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Securing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Child seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 ISOFIX system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
on the front passenger seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Top Tether system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 56
City emergency braking function . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Alcantara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Carbon components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Display/Easy Connect control panel . . . . . 242
Exhaust pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Leather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Plastic parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240, 242
Radio display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Rims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Trim parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Trims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Washing the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Windscreen and rear window wiper blades . .263
Cleaning/De-icing the windows . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Cleaning the rims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Cleaning the upholstery Natural leather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Closing Bonnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Panoramic sliding sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Panoramic sunroof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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Interior anti-dazzle rear vision mirrors . . . . . . 126
Interior monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Interior rear vision mirrorsee Rear vision mirrors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
ISOFIX system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
J
Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 Mounting points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Jump leads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Jump starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
K
Key Driver messages (mechanical contact) . . . 164
Unlocking/Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Keys Assigning a key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Changing the battery (vehicle key) . . . . . . . 91
Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Locking/Unlocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Spare key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Vehicle key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Kick-down Manual gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Kick-down feature Automatic gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Knee airbag See "Airbag system" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 L
Lamps Audible warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Control lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Warning lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Lane Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Cleaning the camera area . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Lane Assist system see Lane Assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Launch Control Programme (automatic gear- box) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Leather Care Natural leather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Leather: Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Leaving Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Lighting Changing a bulb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Acoustic warnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
AUTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Changing a bulb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Coming home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Control lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Controls lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Cornering lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Daytime driving light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Headlight range control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Instrument lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Interior lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Leaving home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Main beam lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Motorway lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Parking light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Reading lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Turn signal lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Load compartment in the luggage compart- ment
see Loading the luggage compartment . . . 17
Loading the luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . 17
Loading the vehicle fastening rings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
roof carrier system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
tailboard for transporting long objects . . . 144
Locking/Unlocking In the lock cylinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
With the central locking switch . . . . . . . . . . 94
Longlife inspection service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
luggage compartment luggage compartment variable floor . . . . 148
Luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Luggage compartment lighting . . . . . . . . . 118
net bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
net partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142, 143
retractable rear shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
storing the rear shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
see also Loading the luggage compartment . .17
luggage compartment variable floor . . . . . . . 148
Luggage net luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
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Sticker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Vehicle identification data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Vehicle battery Disconnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Vehicle care Changing wiper blades of the windscreenand rear window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Cleaning windscreen and rear window wip- er blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Service position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Vehicle interior monitoring and anti-tow system Activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Vehicle key Synchronising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Vehicle tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Ventilation slits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
W Warning lamp Cruise control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Warning lamps adaptive cruise control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
applying foot brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
applying the brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
step on the brake pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Washing Care of the vehicle exterior . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Wearing suitable shoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Wheel changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Wheel bolts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269, 307
Anti-theft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Loosening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Removing the cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Wheel brace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Wheel cover (wheel bolts): removing . . . . . . . 278
Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265, 307 Changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277, 281
Why assume the correct sitting position? . . . . . 31
Why should head restraints be correctly adjus- ted? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Why wear seat belts? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 22, 31
Windows Electric windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Windscreen washer system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Windscreen washer water Checking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Topping up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Windscreen wiper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Window wiper lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Windscreen wiper fluid Control lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Windscreen wipers Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Headlight washer system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Heated windscreen washer jets . . . . . . . . 122
Lifting the wiper blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Rain sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Replacing the wiper blades . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Service position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Special features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Windscreen wipers service position . . . . . . . . 122 Winter conditions
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Care of vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
De-icing the glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Windscreen washer system . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Winter operation Headlight washers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Heated windscreen washer jets . . . . . . . . 122
Salt on the roads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
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