Kia Sorento 2023 Manual page 297

Driving your vehicle
Towing Precautions
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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 "Trailer towing (if equipped)"
on page 5-89.
CAUTION
The AWD vehicle cannot be towed with
sling-type equipment. Use wheel lift or
flatbed equipment.
WARNING
Your vehicle is equipped with tyres
designed to provide safe ride and han-
dling 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 performance of
your vehicle, which could lead to steer-
ing 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-carrying capacity.
All Wheel Drive (AWD) system
WARNING
Jacked vehicle
Whilst the full-time AWD 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.
僅 Full-time AWD vehicles must be
tested on a special four wheel chassis
dynamometer.
NOTICE
Never engage the parking brake whilst
performing these tests.
WARNING
Dynamometer testing
Keep away from the front of the vehicle
whilst the vehicle is in gear on the dyna-
mometer. This is very dangerous as the
vehicle can jump forward and cause
serious injury or death.
CAUTION
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.
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