Driving your vehicle
Driving on grades
Parking on hills
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Reduce speed and shift to a lower gear
before you start down a long or steep
downgrade. If you don’t shift down, you
might have to use your brakes so much
that they would get hot and no longer
operate efficiently.
Generally, if you have a trailer attached to
your vehicle, you should not park your
vehicle on a hill. People can be seriously
or fatally injured, and both your vehicle
and the trailer can be damaged if unex-
pectedly roll down hill.
If the needle of the coolant temper-
ature gauge moves across the dial
towards “130/H (HOT)”, pull over
and stop as soon as it is safe to do
so, and allow the engine to idle
until it cools down. You may pro-
ceed once the engine has cooled
sufficiently.
On a long uphill grade, shift down and
reduce your speed to around 70 km/h (45
mph) to reduce the possibility of engine
and transaxle overheating.
WARNING - Parking on a
hill
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•
You must decide driving speed
depending on trailer weight and
uphill grade to reduce the possibil-
ity of engine and transaxle over-
heating.
Parking your vehicle on a hill with a
trailer attached could cause seri-
ous injury or death, should the trail-
er break loose.
If your trailer weighs more than the max-
imum trailer weight without trailer brakes
and you have an automatic transaxle/
dual clutch transmission, you should
drive in D (Drive) when towing a trailer.
When towing a trailer on steep
grades, the clutch in the transmis-
sion could overheat.
It can be very dangerous to hold
your vehicle by applying accelera-
tor on a hill.
Operating your vehicle in D (Drive) when
towing a trailer will minimize heat build up
and extend the life of your transaxle.
When the clutch is overheated, the
safe protection mode engages. If
the safe protection mode engages,
the gear position indicator on the
cluster blinks with a chime sound.
However, if you ever have to park your
trailer on a hill, here is how to do it:
CAUTION
1.
Pull the vehicle into the parking space.
Turn the steering wheel in the direction
of the curb (right if headed down hill,
left if headed up hill).
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When towing a trailer on steep
grades (in excess of 6%) pay
close attention to the engine
coolant temperature gauge to
ensure the engine does not over-
heat.
At this time, a warning message
will appear on the LCD display and
driving may not be smooth.
2. If the vehicle has a manual transaxle,
place the car in neutral. If the vehicle
has an automatic transaxle/dual clutch
transmission, place the car in P (Park).
If you ignore this warning, the driv-
ing condition may become worse.
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To return the normal driving condi-
tion, stop the vehicle on flat road
and apply the foot brake for a few
minutes before driving off.
3.
Set the parking brake and shut off the
vehicle.
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