trailer SKODA ROOMSTER 2008 1.G Owner's Guide

Technical Data229
Using the systemSafetyDriving TipsGeneral MaintenanceBreakdown assistancePraktikTechnical Data
Capacities (in liter)
Weight (in kg)
Fuel tank capacity/of which spare55/7
Reservoir for windscreen washer system/ with headlight cleaning system2/4,5
Engine oila)
a)Oil capacity with oil filter change. Inspec t oil level when filling; do not fill up too much. The oil level must be between the markings ⇒page 177.
3,2
Cooling system of the vehicle5,5
RoomsterPraktikScout
Permissible gross weight16701660/1760a)
a)Valid for vehicles, which have 15'' wheels mounted as of factory.
1675
Unloaden weight ready for work11551110/1120a)1160
Loading capacityb)
b)depending on special equipment
515550/640a)515
Loading capacity when using the TLCb)465465465
Permissible front axle load890890/890a)890
Permissible rear axle load900900/1000a)900
Permissible trailer load, trailer braked/unbraked(900/450)c)
(1100/450)d)
c)Uphills up to 12%d)Uphills up to 8%
(900/450)c)
(1100/450)d)(900/450)c)
(1100/450)d)
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Technical Data231
Using the systemSafetyDriving TipsGeneral MaintenanceBreakdown assistancePraktikTechnical Data
Capacities (in liter)
Weight (in kg)
Fuel tank capacity/of which spare55/7
Reservoir for windscreen washer system/ with headlight cleaning system2/4,5
Engine oila)
a)Oil capacity with oil filter change. Inspec t oil level when filling; do not fill up too much. The oil level must be between the markings ⇒page 177.
3,6
Cooling system of the vehicle5,5
RoomsterScout
M5AG6M5AG6
Permissible gross weight1690172516951730
Unloaden weight ready for work1175121011801215
Loading capacitya)
a)depending on special equipment
515515515515
Loading capacity when using the TLCa)465465465465
Permissible front axle load890910890910
Permissible rear axle load900900900900
Permissible trailer load, trailer braked/unbraked(1000/450) b)
(1200/450)c)
b)Uphills up to 12%c)Uphills up to 8%
(1000/450)b)
(1200/450)c)(1000/450)a)
(1200/450)c)(1000/450)b)
(1200/450)c)
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Technical Data233
Using the systemSafetyDriving TipsGeneral MaintenanceBreakdown assistancePraktikTechnical Data
Capacities (in liter)
Weight (in kg)
Fuel tank capacity/of which spare55/7
Reservoir for windscreen washer system/ with headlight cleaning system2/4,5
Engine oila)
a)Oil capacity with oil filter change. Inspec t oil level when filling; do not fill up too much. The oil level must be between the markings ⇒page 177.
3,8
Cooling system of the vehicle6,2
RoomsterPraktik
Permissible gross weight1735/1750a)
a)Valid for vehicles, which have 15'' wheels mounted as of factory.
1730/1835a)
Unloaden weight ready for work1220/1235a)1180/1195a)
Loading capacityb)
b)depending on special equipment
515550/640a)
Loading capacity when using the TLCb)465465
Permissible front axle load900/960a)900/960a)
Permissible rear axle load900900/1000a)
Permissible trailer load, trailer braked/unbraked(900/450)c)
(1100/450)d)
c)Uphills up to 12%d)Uphills up to 8%
(900/450)c)
(1100/450)d)
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Technical Data235
Using the systemSafetyDriving TipsGeneral MaintenanceBreakdown assistancePraktikTechnical Data
Capacities (in liter)
Weight (in kg)
Fuel tank capacity/of which spare55/7
Reservoir for windscreen washer system/ with headlight cleaning system2/4,5
Engine oila)
a)Oil capacity with oil filter change. Inspec t oil level when filling; do not fill up too much. The oil level must be between the markings ⇒page 177.
4,2
Cooling system of the vehicle6,2
RoomsterScoutPraktik
Permissible gross weight176017651840
Unloaden weight ready for work124512501200
Loading capacitya)
a)depending on special equipment
515515640
Loading capacity when using the TLCa)465465465
Permissible front axle load960960960
Permissible rear axle load9009001000
Permissible trailer load, trailer braked/unbraked(1000/450)b)
(1200/450)c)
b)Uphills up to 12%c)Uphills up to 8%
(1000/450)b)
(1200/450)c)(1000/450)a)
(1200/450)c)
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Technical Data237
Using the systemSafetyDriving TipsGeneral MaintenanceBreakdown assistancePraktikTechnical Data
Capacities (in liter)
Weight (in kg)
Fuel tank capacity/of which spare55/7
Reservoir for windscreen washer system/ with headlight cleaning system2/4,5
Engine oila)
a)Oil capacity with oil filter change. Inspec t oil level when filling; do not fill up too much. The oil level must be between the markings ⇒page 177.
5,0
Cooling system of the vehicle6,8
RoomsterScout
Permissible gross weight17751780
Unloaden weight ready for work12601265
Loading capacitya)
a)depending on special equipment
515515
Loading capacity when using the TLCa)465465
Permissible front axle load960960
Permissible rear axle load900900
Permissible trailer load, trailer braked/unbraked(1200/450)b)
(1200/450)c)
b)Uphills up to 12%c)Uphills up to 8%
(1200/450)b)
(1200/450)c)
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Index243
Radio systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Raise vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Rear armrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Rear fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Rear mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Rear seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Rear window heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Recharge battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Recirculated air mode
Air conditioning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Refuelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Synchronisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Removing seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Replacing bulbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Replacing fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Replacing the wiper blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Roof aerial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Running in the car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
S
Safe securing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Safety information
Engine compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Saving electrical energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Seat belt height adjuster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Seat belt warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
fastening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Height adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
taking off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Selector lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Selector lever positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Service Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Service Interval Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Setting temperature
Air conditioning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Shifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Side airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Side lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Spare wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Stability programme (ESP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Diesel engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Petrol engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Steering force assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Storage compartment
Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Storage compartments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Storage facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Sun visors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Switch in the driver door
Power windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Switching lights on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Switching off the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
T
Tailgate
Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Taking care of your vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Temperature
outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
the first 1 500 kilometres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
The roof luggage rack system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Thickness of brake pads
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Tiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Towing a trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Towing eye
front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Towing protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
towing vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Tow-starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Tow-starting and towing vehicle
Automatic gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Traction control system (TCS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
General Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Transporting children safely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Tread depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Turn signal light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Turn signal lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Turn signal system for ve hicles towing a trailer
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Two-way radio systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Tyre inflation pressure
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Tyre repair kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Tyres
Winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
U
Underbody protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Unidirectional tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Unlocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
V
Vanity mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Vehicle tool kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Visors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
W
Warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Warning symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Warning triangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Washing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
with a high-pressure cleaner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Washing the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Washing vehicle by hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Wax treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Wheel
Changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Spare wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Wheel bolts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
slackening and tightening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Wheel bolts lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Wheel trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187, 198
Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Windows
de-icing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Windscreen washer nozzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Windscreen Wiper and Washer System
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Windshield washer fluid reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Windshield washer system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Windshield wiper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Wiper blades
Replacing the wiper blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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