Lancia Y Owner's Handbook Manual

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84GFor emergency starts use only anauxiliary battery.If the engine begins to “loose itssmoothness” when travelling, con-tinue your journey but reduce the de-mands you are making on the engineand have the car seen to at a LANCIADealership as soon as you can.When the instrument panel fuel re-serve warning light comes on, fill upas soon as possible. A low level of fuelcan cause an uneven supply of fuel tothe engine with the inevitable increasein the temperature of the exhaust gasand serious damage to the catalyticconverter.Never run the engine with one ormore spark plugs disconnected, evenfor testing purposes.Do not warm up the engine by let-ting it idle for a while before movingoff unless the outside temperature isvery low and, even in this case, onlydo so for less than thirty seconds.When functioning nor-mally the catalytic con-verter reaches high tem-peratures. For this reason do notpark the car over inflammablematerial (grass, dry leaves, pineneedles etc.): fire hazard.Failure to heed these pre-cautions could cause afire.Do not install other heat shields anddo not remove those already fitted tothe catalytic converter and exhaustpipe.Do not allow anything to be sprayedonto the catalytic converter, Lambdasensor and exhaust pipe.TOWING A TRAILERIMPORTANT The car must be fit-ted with a homologated tow hitch andsuitable electrical system for towing acaravan or trailer.Have the tow hitch fitted by an ex-pert who will issue specific documen-tation for use on roads.Fit special and/or additionalrearview mirrors in accordance withthe highway code.Remember that towing a trailermakes it harder for the car to climbthe maximum gradients specified.Engage a low gear when drivingdownhill rather than constantly brak-ing.4C068-089 ING 11-03-2008 11:59 Pagina 84