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Kia Soul - Driving Your Vehicle

Kia Soul
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Driving your vehicle
• Be sure the exhaust system does not leak . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Before driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
• Before entering vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
• Necessary inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
• Before starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Key positions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
• Illuminated ignition switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
• Ignition switch position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
• Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
Engine start/stop button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
• Illuminated engine start/stop button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
• Engine start/stop button position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
• Starting the engine with a smart key . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
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 - Hand type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-25
• Anti-lock brake system (ABS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-27
• Electronic stability control (ESC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
• Vehicle stability management (VSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
• Hill-start assist control (HAC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34
• Good braking practices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35
Cruise control system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-37
• Cruise control switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-38
• To set cruise control speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-38
• To increase cruise control set speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-39
• To decrease the cruising speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-39
• To temporarily accelerate with the cruise
control on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-39
• To cancel cruise control, do one of the following . . . 5-40
• To resume cruising speed at more than
approximately 20 mph (30 km/h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-40
• To turn cruise control off, do one of the following. . . 5-41
Active ECO system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-42
• Active ECO operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-42
• When Active ECO is activated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-42
• Limitation of Active ECO operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-42
ISG (Idle Stop and Go) system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-43
• Auto stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-43
• Auto start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-44
• Condition of ISG system operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45
• ISG system deactivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-46
• ISG system malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-47
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