Kia Optima: Maintenance services / Owner’s responsibility
✽ NOTICE
Maintenance Service and Record Retention are the owner's responsibility.
You should retain documents that show proper maintenance has been performed
on your vehicle in accordance with the scheduled maintenance service charts shown
on the following pages. You need this information to establish your compliance with
the servicing and maintenance requirements of your vehicle warranties.
Detailed warranty information is provided in your Warranty & Consumer Information
manual.
Repairs and adjustments required as a result of improper maintenance or a lack
of required maintenance are not covered.
We recommend you have your vehicle maintained and repaired by an authorized Kia
dealer. An authorized Kia dealer meets Kia’s high service quality standards and
receives technical support from Kia in order to provide you with a high level of
service satisfaction.
You should exercise the utmost care to prevent damage to your vehicle and injury
to yourself whenever performing any maintenance or inspection procedures.
Should you have any doubts concerning the ...
Improper or incomplete service may result in problems. This section gives instructions
only for the maintenance items that are easy to perform.
As explained earlier in this section, several procedu ...
Other information:
1. Light control/Turn signals
2, Driver’s front air bag
3. Horn
4. Instrument cluster
5. Wiper and washer control lever
6. Ignition switch
Engine start/stop button
7. Cruise control
8. Passenger’s front air bag
9. Hazard warning flasher
10. Manual climate control system
Automatic cl ...
Description and operation
Description
The compressor is the power unit of the A/C system.
It is located on the side of engine block and driven by a V-belt of the engine.
The compressor changes low pressure and low temperature refrigerant gas into
high pressure and high temperatu ...