Skoda Octavia Owner's Manual page 213

212 Breakdown assistance
– Have all the occupants get out. While changing a wheel, the occupants of the
vehicle should not stand on the road (instead of behind a crash barrier).
– Switch off the engine and engage 1st gear or if your vehicle is fitted with an
automatic gearbox, position the selector lever into position P.
– Apply the handbrake firmly.
– Check whether you can carry out the repairs with the tyre repair kit  page 210,
"General information".
– If a trailer is coupled, uncouple it.
– Remove the tyre repair kit from the luggage compartment.
– Stick the sticker A  page 211, fig. 182
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– Do not remove the foreign body, e.g. screw or nail, from the tyre.
– Unscrew the valve cap.
– Use the valve remover A to remove the valve core and place it down on a clean
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surface.
Seal and inflate tyres
Sealing tyres
– Forcefully shake the tyre inflator bottle
A
– Firmly screw inflation hose
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tion A . The film on the cap is pierced automatically.
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– Remove the plug from the inflation hose
tyre valve.
– Hold the bottle A with the floor facing upwards and fill the whole sealing agent
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in the tyre inflator bottle into the tyres.
– Remove the empty tyre inflator bottle from the valve.
– Screw the valve core back into the tyre valve using the valve remover
Pumping up the tyres
A
– Screw the tyre inflation hose
onto the tyre valve.
– Check whether the air release valve
– On vehicles fitted with a manual gearbox, move the gearshift lever into Neutral.
– Start the engine and run it in idle.
on the dash panel in view of the driver.
A  page 211, fig. 182
several times.
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onto the tyre inflator bottle in a clockwise direc-
A and plug the open end fully into the
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 page 211, fig. 182
of the air compressor firmly
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A is closed.
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– Plug the connector
– Switch on the air compressor with the ON and OFF switch
– Allow the air compressor to run until reaching a pressure of 2.0 - 2.5 bar.
Maximum run time of 8 minutes 
– Switch off the air compressor with the ON and OFF switch.
– If you cannot reach an air pressure of 2.0 – 2.5 bar, unscrew the tyre inflation
hose A from the tyre valve.
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– Drive the vehicle approx. 10 metres forwards or backwards to allow the sealing
agent to distribute in the tyre.
– Screw the tyre inflation hose of the air compressor
valve and repeat the inflation procedure.
– If you cannot reach the required tyre inflation pressure here either, this means
the tyre has sustained too much damage. You cannot seal with tyre with the
breakdown kit 
– Switch off the air compressor with the ON and OFF switch.
– Remove the tyre inflation hose
After reaching a tyre inflation pressure of 2.0 – 2.5 bar, drive at a maximum speed of
80 km/h (50 mph).
Check the tyre inflation pressure after driving 10 minutes  page 213, "Check after
driving for 10 minutes".
WARNING
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During inflation, the tyre inflation hose and air compressor may get hot- risk
of injury!
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Do not place hot tyre inflation hoses or hot air compressors on flammable
materials - risk of fire!
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If you cannot inflate the tyre to at least 2.0 bar, this means the damage
A
.
sustained was too serious. The sealing agent cannot be used to seal the tyre. Do
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not drive the vehicle. Get professional assistance.
Caution
Switch off the air compressor after running 8 minutes at the latest - danger of over-
heating! Allow the air compressor to cool a few moments before switching it on
again.
A into 12 Volt socket  page 81.
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!
A firmly back onto the tyre
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.
A
from the tyre valve.
5
A
.
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