Kia 2014 Optima - Driving Your Vehicle

Driving your vehicle
Before driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
• Before entering vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
• Necessary inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
• Before starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Key positions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
• Illuminated ignition switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
• Ignition switch position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
Engine start/stop button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
• Illuminated engine start/stop button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
• Engine start/stop button position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
• Starting the engine with an ignition key. . . . . . . . . . 5-11
• Starting the engine with a smart key . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
Manual transaxle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
• Manual transaxle operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
• Good driving practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
Automatic transaxle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
• Automatic transaxle operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
• Good driving practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
Brake system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-23
• Power brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-23
• Parking brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-25
• Electric parking brake (EPB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-27
• Auto hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
• Anti-lock brake system (ABS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-36
• Electronic stability control (ESC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-38
• Hill-start assist control (HAC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-41
• Vehicle stability management (VSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-42
• Good braking practices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-44
Cruise control system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45
• To set cruise control speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45
• To increase cruise control set speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-46
• To decrease the cruising speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-46
• To temporarily accelerate with the cruise
control on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-47
• To cancel cruise control, do one of the following . . . 5-47
• To resume cruising speed at more than
approximately 25 mph (40 km/h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-48
• To turn cruise control off, do one of the following. . . 5-48
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