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Maintenance Emission control system
Operating precautions for cata
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lytic converters (if equipped)
Catalytic converter
Keep away from the catalytic converter
and exhaust system whilst the vehicle is
running or immediately thereafter. The
exhaust and catalytic systems are very
hot and may burn you.
Fire
僅 Do not park, idle or drive the vehicle
over or near flammable objects, such
as grass, vegetation, paper, leaves,
etc. A hot exhaust system can ignite
flammable items under your vehicle.
僅 Also, do not remove the heat sink
around the exhaust system, do not
seal the bottom of the vehicle or do
not coat the vehicle for corrosion con
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trol. It may present a fire risk under
certain conditions.
Your vehicle is equipped with a catalytic
converter emission control device.
Therefore, the following precautions
must be observed:
僅 Use only UNLEADED FUEL for petrol
engines.
僅 Do not operate the vehicle when there
are signs of engine malfunction, such
as misfire or a noticeable loss of per
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formance.
僅 Do not misuse or abuse the engine.
Examples of misuse are coasting with
the ignition off and descending steep
grades in gear with the ignition off.
僅 Do not operate the engine at high idle
speed for extended periods (5 min
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utes or more).
僅 Do not modify or tamper with any
part of the engine or emission control
system. All inspections and adjust
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ments must be made by a profes
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sional workshop. Kia recommends to
visit an authorised Kia dealer/service
partner.
僅 Avoid driving with an extremely low
fuel level. Running out of fuel could
cause the engine to misfire, damaging
the catalytic converter.
Failure to observe these precautions
could result in damage to the catalytic
converter and to your vehicle. Addition
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ally, such actions could void your war
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ranties.
Petrol Particulate Filter (PPF) (if
equipped)
The Petrol Particulate Filter (PPF) sys
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tem removes the soot in the exhaust
gas.
The PPF system automatically burns (or
oxidizes) the accumulated soot in accor
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dance with driving situations, unlike a
disposable air filter.
In other words, the accumulated soot is
automatically purged out by the engine
control system and by the high exhaust-
gas temperature at normal/high driving
speeds.
However, when the vehicle is continually
driven at repeated short distances or
driven at low speed for a long time, the
accumulated soot may not be automati
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cally removed because of low exhaust
gas temperature. In this case, the accu
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mulated soot may reach a certain
amount regardless of the soot oxidiza
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tion process, then the PPF lamp will
appear.
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