Kia Sportage 2023 Owner's Manual page 249

Driving your vehicle
Towing precautions
ONQ5051008_3
AWD vehicle
ONQ5051133N
FWD vehicle
ONQ5051132N
The AWD vehicle should never be towed
with the wheels on the ground. Your
vehicle must be towed with a wheel lift
and dollies or flatbed equipment with all
the wheels off the ground.
* Refer to "Towing" on page 6-26.
All Wheel Drive (AWD) system
CAUTION
The AWD vehicle cannot be towed with
sling-type equipment. Use wheel lift or
flatbed equipment.
WARNING
Your vehicle is equipped with tires
designed to provide safe ride and han-
dling capability. Do not use tires and
wheels that are different in size and type
from the originally installed ones. It can
affect the safety and performance of
your vehicle, which could lead to steer-
ing failure or rollover and serious injury.
When replacing the tires, be sure to
equip all four tires with the tire and
wheel of the same size, type, tread,
brand and load-carrying capacity.
WARNING
Jacked vehicle
While the full-time AWD vehicle is being
raised on a jack, never start the engine
or cause the tires to rotate.
There is the danger that rotating tires
touching the ground could cause the
vehicle to go off the jack and to jump
forward.
僅 Full-time AWD vehicles must be
tested on a special four wheel chassis
dynamometer.
NOTICE
Never engage the parking brake while
performing these tests.
僅 A full-time AWD vehicle should not be
tested on a FWD roll tester. If a FWD
roll tester must be used, perform the
following:
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