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Breakdown assistance
Have all the occupants get out. While changing a tyre, the occupants of the
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vehicle should not stand on the road (instead they should remain behind a
crash barrier, for example).
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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.
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Check whether you can carry out the repairs with the tyre repair kit
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If a trailer is coupled, uncouple it.
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Remove the tyre repair kit from the luggage compartment.
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Stick the sticker
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Do not remove the foreign body, e.g. screw or nail, from the tyre.
Unscrew the valve cap.
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Use the valve remover
to remove the valve core and place it down on a
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clean surface.
Seal and inflate tyres
Sealing tyres
Forcefully shake the tyre inflator bottle
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Firmly screw inflation hose
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tion
. The film on the cap is pierced automatically.
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Remove the plug from the inflation hose
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the tyre valve.
Hold the bottle
with the floor facing upwards and fill the whole sealing
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agent in the tyre inflator bottle into the tyres.
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Remove the empty tyre inflator bottle from the valve.
Screw the valve core back into the tyre valve using the valve remover
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Pumping up the tyres
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Screw the tyre inflation hose
tyre valve.
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Check whether the air release valve
on the dash panel in view of the driver.
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several times.
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onto the tyre inflator bottle in a clockwise direc-
and plug the open end fully into
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of the air compressor firmly onto the
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is closed.
On vehicles fitted with a manual gearbox, move the gearshift lever into Neu-
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tral.
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Start the engine and run it in idle.
Plug the connector
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Switch on the air compressor with the ON and OFF switch
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Allow the air compressor to run until reaching a pressure of 2.0 - 2.5 bar. Maxi-
mum run time of 8 minutes ⇒ !
Switch off the air compressor with the ON and OFF switch.
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If you cannot reach an air pressure of 2.0 – 2.5 bar, unscrew the tyre inflation
hose
from the tyre valve.
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Drive the vehicle approx. 10 metres forwards or backwards to allow the sealing
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agent to distribute in the tyre.
Screw the tyre inflation hose of the air compressor
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tyre valve and repeat the inflation procedure.
If you cannot reach the required tyre inflation pressure here either, this means
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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.
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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 ⇒ p age 175, Check after
driving for 10 minutes.
WARNING
● During inflation, the tyre inflation hose and air compressor may get hot-
risk of injury!
● Do not place hot tyre inflation hoses or hot air compressors on flammable
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materials - risk of fire!
● If you cannot inflate the tyre to at least 2.0 bar, this means the damage
sustained was too serious. The sealing agent cannot be used to seal the tyre.
Do not drive the vehicle. Get professional assistance.
into 12 Volt socket ⇒ p age 64.
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firmly back onto the
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from the tyre valve.
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