Fuel-Driven Parking Heater; Parking On A Hill; Battery And Fuel - Volvo XC70 Owner's Manual

Fuel-driven parking heater*

General information about the parking
heater
The parking heater can be started immedi-
ately or set using the timer. Here, start time
refers to the time the car is heated and ready.
The car's electronic system calculates when
heating should be started based on the out-
side temperature. The heater is not run if the
outdoor temperature exceeds 15 °C. At tem-
peratures from –10 °C and below, the maxi-
mum running time of the parking heater is
50 minutes. When the parking heater is run-
ning, Park heat ON is shown on the informa-
tion display.
WARNING
The car must be outdoors when the parking
heater is used.
NOTE
When the parking heater is active there may
be smoke from the right-hand wheel hous-
ing which is perfectly normal.
WARNING! ACHTUNG!
AVERTISSEMENT!
WARNING
Fuel which spills out can be ignited. Switch
of the parking heater before starting to
refuel. Check the information display to see
that the parking heater is switched off.

Parking on a hill

If the car is parked on a steep hill, the front of
the car should point downhill to ensure that
there is a supply of fuel to the parking heater.

Battery and fuel

If the battery has insufficient charge or the
fuel level is too low, the parking heater will be
switched off automatically. A message
appears on the information display. Confirm
the message by pressing the READ button,
see page 118.
04 Comfort and driving pleasure
IMPORTANT
Repeated use of the parking heater com-
bined with short journeys may discharge
the battery and impair starting. If the park-
ing heater is used regularly, the car must be
driven for the same time as the parking
heater is run to ensure that the alternator
has time to correspondingly charge the bat-
tery.
Climate control
04
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