Seat Ateca 2018 Owner's Manual page 144

Open). The rear lid will be automatically
opened.
Closing the rear lid
Briefly press the button on the rear lid
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Fig. 145 .
OR: press the button located on the
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centre console until the rear lid is closed
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Fig. 146.
OR: on vehicles with Keyless Access, press
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and hold the vehicle key button until the
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rear lid is closed or move one foot in the area
of the sensors located below the rear bumper
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(Easy Open) page 133. The key of the ve-
hicle must not be further away than 1.5 m
from the boot or inside the vehicle.
OR: manually move the rear lid in the direc-
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tion of closing until it closes automatically.
The rear lid goes down automatically to the
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final position and also closes automatically
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Interrupting opening or closing
After beginning to open or close the rear lid,
the action can be halted by pressing one of
the buttons.
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Continue opening or closing the rear lid by
hand. To do this, some force will have to be
used.
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Operation
If you press one of the buttons again, the
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rear lid will move again in the original direc-
tion.
If the rear lid is met with resistance or an ob-
stacle during the automatic opening or clos-
ing, opening or closing will be interrupted im-
mediately. For the closing process, the rear
lid opens again slightly.
Check why it has not been possible to open
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or close the rear lid.
Try to open or close the rear lid again.
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If necessary, the rear lid can be opened or
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closed by hand using reasonable force.
Special feature for pulling a trailer
If the factory-fitted towing bracket is electri-
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cally connected to a trailer page
electric rear lid can only be opened or closed
with the buttons on the rear lid itself.
Acoustic warnings
Throughout the process of opening or closing
the rear lid, acoustic warnings can be heard.
Exception: when the rear lid is opened man-
ually using the handle or the Easy Open func-
tion with the movement of the foot or closed
using the button on the rear lid itself
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Fig. 145.
Modifying and memorising the opening
angle
If the space behind or above the vehicle is
less than the travel area of the rear lid, you
can change the opening angle of the rear lid.
To memorise a new opening angle, the rear
lid must be open at least halfway.
Interrupt the opening process in the desired
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position.
Press the button
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lid for at least 3 seconds.
The opening angle is memorised. Memorisa-
tion is indicated by blinking of the hazard
warning lights and an audible warning.
Resetting and memorising the opening an-
330, the
gle
For the rear lid to reopen completely, the
opening angle must be reset and memorised
again.
Release the rear lid and open it to the
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memorised height.
Lift the rear lid by hand as far as it goes. To
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do this, some force will have to be used.
Press the button
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lid for at least 3 seconds.
This resets and memorises the factory-set
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opening angle. Memorisation is indicated by
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Fig. 145 on the rear
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Fig. 145 on the rear