Alfa Romeo ALFA 159 2010 Owner's Handbook Manual page 96

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ANTI-CRUSHING SAFETY
SYSTEM
The anti-crushing safety system fitted on
the front curtain outline is active during
horizontal closing (front edge) and ver-
tical closing of the panel (rear edge) and
it will cut in when it finds an obstacle
(e.g.: finger, hand, etc ...), thus guar-
anteeing sunroof reversal for a short sec-
tion.
When an obstacle is found, sunroof
stroke is stopped immediately and its
stroke is reversed to the preset position:
during horizontal closing it is active
along the whole stroke of the sunroof
and when it finds an obstacle on the
front side of the pane it guarantees
a 10 cm stroke reversal;
during vertical closing it is active
along the whole stroke of the sunroof turn the key to open or to close (ac-
and when it finds an obstacle on the
rear side of the pane it guarantees
stroke reversal.
fig. 89
A0E 01 87 m
EMERGENCY OPERATION
In a emergency or during servicing (with-
out power supply), the sunroof can be
operated manually; proceed as follows:
press the light notches to release the
clips and remove the front ceiling light
A-fig. 89 .
fit the setscrew wrench into the prop-
er slotB;
cording to rotation direction) the sun-
roof.
SUNROOF INITIALISATION
PROCEDURE
After disconnecting the battery or failing
the protection fuse, the sunroof shall be
"initialised" again, proceed as follows:
turn selector fully leftwards (counter-
clokwise);
press and keep pressed selector until
sunroof locking;
release selector;
press selector again within 3 seconds,
and keep it pressed;
a few seconds after the sunroof will
move automatically (during this stage
keep on pressing the knob);
initialisation will end when the sun-
roof stops. Release selector.
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