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Kia Soul 2018 User Manual

Kia Soul 2018
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Driving your vehicle
Before driving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
• Before entering vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
• Necessary inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
• Before starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Key positions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
• Illuminated ignition switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
• Ignition switch position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
• Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
ENGINE START/STOP button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
• Illuminated engine start/stop button . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
• Engine start/stop button position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
• Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
Manual Transaxle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18
• Manual transaxle operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-18
• Good driving practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-22
Automatic transaxle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23
• Automatic transaxle operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-23
• Good driving practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-28
Dual clutch transmission (DCT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-30
• Dual clutch transmission operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-30
• Good driving practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-37
Brake system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-39
• Power brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-39
• Parking brake - Hand type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-41
• Anti-lock brake system (ABS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-43
• Electronic stability control (ESC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-45
• Vehicle stability management (VSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-49
• Hill-start assist control (HAC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-50
• Emergency Stop Signal (ESS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-51
• Good braking practices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-51
Cruise control system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-53
• Cruise control switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-54
• To set cruise control speed: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-55
• To increase cruise control set speed: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-56
• To decrease the cruising speed: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-57
• To temporarily accelerate with the cruise control on: . . 6-57
• To cancel cruise control, do one of the following: . . 6-58
• To resume cruising speed at more than
approximately 30 km/h (20 mph):. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-59
• To turn cruise control off, do one of the following: . 6-59
Speed limit control system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-60
• Speed limit control switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-60
• To set speed limit :. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-60
• To turn off the speed limit control,
do one of the following:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-62
ISG (Idle Stop and Go) system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-64
• Auto stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-64
• Auto start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-65
• Condition of ISG system operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-66
• ISG system deactivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-66
• ISG system malfunction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-67
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Kia Soul 2018 Specifications

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BrandKia
ModelSoul 2018
CategoryAutomobile
LanguageEnglish

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