Kia Sportage 2023 Manual page 250

Driving your vehicle
vehicle must be towed with a flatbed
equipment with all the wheels off the
ground or wheel lift and dollies (1).
For more information, refer to "Trailer
towing (if equipped)" on page 6-53.
WARNING
僅 Your vehicle is equipped with tyres
designed to provide safe ride and
handling capability. Do not use tyres
and wheels that are different in size
and type from the originally installed
ones. It can affect the safety and per-
formance of your vehicle, which could
lead to steering failure or rollover and
serious injury. When replacing the
tyres, be sure to equip all four tyres
with the tyre and wheel of the same
size, type, tread, brand and load-car-
rying capacity.
僅 Whilst the full-time 4WD vehicle is
being raised on a jack, never start the
engine or cause the tyres to rotate.
There is the danger that rotating tyres
touching the ground could cause the
vehicle to go off the jack and to jump
forward.
CAUTION
僅 The AWD vehicle cannot be towed
with sling-type equipment. Use wheel
lift or flatbed equipment.
僅 When lifting up the vehicle, do not
operate front and rear wheel sepa-
rately. All four wheels should be oper-
ated.
僅 If you need to operate the front wheel
and rear wheel when lifting up the
vehicle, you should release the park-
ing brake.
6 44
All Wheel Drive (AWD) system
Dynamometer testing
A 4WD vehicles must be tested on a spe-
cial 4 wheel chassis dynamometer.
If a 2WD roll tester must be used, per-
form the following procedure.
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A: Roll tester (Speedometer)
B: Temporary free roller
Operation
1. Check the recommended tyre pres-
sure for your vehicle.
2. Place the front wheels on the roll tes-
ter (A) for a speedometer test as
shown in the illustration.
3. Release the parking brake.
4. Place the rear wheels on the tempo-
rary free roller as shown in the illustra-
tion.
WARNING
僅 Do not use tyre and wheel with differ-
ent size and type from the one origi-
nally installed on your vehicle. It can
affect the safety and performance of
your vehicle, which could lead to
steering failure or rollover causing
serious injury.
僅 Never start or run the vehicle whilst a
4WD vehicle is raised on a jack. The
vehicle can slip or roll off of a jack