Seat ALHAMBRA Owner's Manual page 180

178 Driving
Automatic gearbox*: Selecting gears
The gear selection lever has a lock. When changing the selector lever from
position P to a range of gears, press the brake pedal and press the lock on
the selector lever, located on the front part of the knob, in the direction of
the arrow
position N to D or to R, first press and hold the brake pedal.
When the ignition is on, the current position of the selector lever is shown
on the instrument panel.
Selector
lever po-
sitions
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Fig. 131 Left-hand drive
vehicles: Automatic gear-
box selector lever with

locking button (arrow).
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Fig. 132 Right-hand
drive vehicles: Automatic

gearbox selector lever
with locking button (ar-
row).
Selector lever locking
The gear selector lever lock prevents, in P or N, a gear selection from being
inadvertently engaged and the vehicle moving off accidentally.
⇒ f ig. 131 ⇒ f ig.
or 132. To move the gear selector lever from the
Denomination Meaning ⇒
The drive wheels are locked mechanically.
They only engage when the vehicle is at a
Parking lock standstill. To change the position of the selec-
tor lever, press the brake pedal and switch on
the ignition.
Reverse gear is engaged.
Reverse gear Only select reverse gear when the vehicle is at
a standstill.
The gear box is in neutral. No movement is
Neutral transmitted to the wheels and the engine
does not act as a brake.
Standard for-
The gears are changed (up and down) auto-
wards driving
matically. The gear shifts are determined by
position (nor-
the engine load, your individual driving style
mal pro-
and the speed of the vehicle.
gramme)
The shift up to a higher gear is automatically
Standard for-
delayed and the shift down is faster with re-
wards driving spect to the D range of gears, to take full ad-
position vantage of the engine power. The gear shifts
(sports pro- are determined by the engine load, your indi-
gramme) vidual driving style and the speed of the vehi-
cle.
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