Volvo C30 Owner's Manual page 162

06 Starting and driving
Automatic gearbox
Symbol Display
TRANSM. OVERHEAT BRAKE TO
HOLD
TRANSM. OVERHEAT PARK SAFELY
TRANSM. COOLING LET ENGINE RUN
A For fastest cooling: run the engine at idling speed with the gear lever in the N or P position, until the message clears.
NOTE
06
The table's examples are no indication that
the car is defective but instead show that a
safety function has been activated inten-
tionally to prevent damage to one of the
car's components.
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Driving characteristics
Difficulty in maintaining even speed at con-
stant engine speed.
Significant pulling in the car's traction.
No drive due to overheated gearbox.
WARNING
If a warning symbol combined with the text
TRANSM. OVERHEAT PARK SAFELY
ignored then the heat in the gearbox may
become so high that the power transmis-
sion between engine and gearbox is tem-
porarily halted in order to prevent the clutch
from malfunctioning - the car then loses
drive and is stationary until gearbox tem-
perature has cooled to an acceptable level.
Action
Gearbox overheated. Keep the car station-
ary using the foot brake
Gearbox overheated. Park the car immedi-
ately in a safe manner.
Gearbox overheated. For fastest cooling:
Run the engine at idling speed with the gear
lever in the N or P position until the mes-
sage clears.
For more possible display messages with their
respective proposals for solutions concerning
automatic transmission, see page 56.
is
A display text clears automatically after the
action has been carried out or after one press
on the indicator stalk READ button.
A
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