Vehicle body care requirements vary according to geographic locations and usage. Chemicals that make roads passable in snow and ice and those that are sprayed on trees and road surfaces during other seasons, are highly corrosive to the metal in your vehicle. Outside parking, which exposes your vehicle to airborne contaminants, road surfaces on which the vehicle is operated, extreme hot or cold weather and other extreme conditions will have an adverse effect on paint, metal trim, and underbody protection.
The following maintenance recommendations will enable you to obtain maximum benefit from the corrosion resistance built into your vehicle.
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Battery
The battery is of the “Limited maintenance” type: under normal conditions of
use the electrolyte does not need topping up with distilled water.
CHECKING THE CHARGE fig. 22
The battery charge may b ...
Conditions of use
Cold starting
Frequent cold starting will not enable the engine to reach optimal running temperature.
It follows, therefore, that consumption will be higher (from +15 to +30% in towns)
as will th ...
Climatic comfort
See previous chapter for air distribution and heating/ventilation functions.
IMPORTANT
The manual climate control system is very useful for speeding up the demising
process because it dries the ai ...