Starting The Engine - Kia Soul 2018 Owner's Manual

Driving your vehicle

Starting the engine

WARNING
• Always wear appropriate
shoes when operating your
vehicle. Unsuitable
(high heels, ski boots,etc.) may
interfere with your ability to
use the brake and accelerator
pedal, and clutch (if equipped).
• Do not start the vehicle with
the accelerator
depressed. The vehicle can
move and lead to an accident.
• Wait until the engine rpm is
normal. The vehicle may sud-
denly move if the brake padel
is released when the rpm is
high.
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✽ ✽ NOTICE
-
Kick down
mechanism
(if equipped)
If your vehicle is equipped with a
kick down mechanism in the accel-
erator pedal, it prevents you from
shoes
driving at full throttle unintention-
ally by making the driver require
increased effort to depress the accel-
erator pedal. However, if you
depress the pedal more than approx-
imately 82%, the vehicle can be at
pedal
full throttle and the accelerator
pedal will be easier to depress. This
is not a malfunction but a normal
condition.
Starting the petrol engine
1. Make sure the parking brake is
applied.
2. Manual Transaxle - Depress the
clutch pedal fully and shift the
transaxle into Neutral. Keep the
clutch pedal and brake pedal
depressed whilst turning the igni-
tion switch to the start position.
Automatic Transaxle / Dual
clutch transmission - Place the
transaxle shift lever in P (Park).
Depress the brake pedal fully.
You can also start the engine
when the shift lever is in the N
(Neutral) position.
3. Turn the ignition switch to START
and hold it there until the engine
starts (a maximum of 10 seconds),
then release the key.
It should be started without
depressing the accelerator pedal.
4. Do not wait for the engine to warm
up whilst the vehicle remains sta-
tionary.
Start driving at moderate engine
speeds. (Steep accelerating and
decelerating should be avoided.)