Lada GRANTA, User Manual

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driving mode and engaged gear.
AMT transmission crawl mode is not
envisaged by design.
If after the engine start up selector
is moved to M position, gear 1 will
get engaged. Then you can shift the
gears in manual mode. Speed-
increasing gears in
M mode in the
regular operation conditions are
switched only by driver sequentially
1-2-3-4-5 and in reverse order.
Be careful, at the starting and driv-
ing at the first gear you can reach the
maximum engine speed, it is
designed specially to drive onto the
steep and long ascents by using only
the first gear. If the maximum engine
speed is reached at the second and at
the other gears, the system will switch
to the speed increasing gear to pre-
vent the engine failure. The down-
shifting at the speed decrease is per-
formed automatically depending on
the speed reduction.
М mode allows
to brake a vehicle by combination of
the pedal brake and engine by means
of sequential gear downshifting.
You can feel delays at all driving
modes caused by the operation of
gearbox synchronizing system dur-
ing shifting process.
А mode is set
up for the maximum comfortable
driving style, and delays are a bit
longer than at the
M mode.
А and М modes have brick accel-
eration function called kick-down, it is
actuated depending on the strength
of pressing the accelerator pedal
down, at the
M mode it is slower.
You can move selector lever from A
position to M position and back while
driving. If you need to switch to the
self shifting mode, or you need pre-
liminarily to shift down during driving
at the mode
A (eg. overtaking with
driving in the oncoming lane), you can
switch to
M mode, perform maneuver
and then switch back to the mode A ,
and the system will engage the gear
appropriate to the speed.
If you switch the lever from A posi-
tion to R position while driving, the
system will block the reverse gear
engagement. At the same time the
R
mode indictor will blink, indicating the
driver that this switch is impossible.
In order to exclude transmission
failures the system will allow no
engagement of gear inappropriate to
the speed in all cases.
If swaying of vehicle is required, for
example at skidding, you can switch
R – A modes and vice versa through
N , but without stopping at N and with-
out brake pedal pressing, provided
the speed is not over
3 km/h .
If speed is over 3 km/h the switch-
ing from A to R and from R to A is pos-
sible only when brake is pressed. In
some cases for the successful
engagement of the reverse gear it is
required to wait 8 sec in order the sys-
tem could perform the reverse gear
engagement function successfully.
You can turn off the ignition at any
selector position. But in N position the
vehicle can move and you can tow it,
in the other positions of selector the
vehicle will stay in the selected mode
(
R – at reverse gear, A and M – at the
first gear) and the clutch is locked. In
any case, depending on the slope it is
necessary to prevent spontaneous
vehicle swaying by the hand brake.
By driving onto the steep ascents
(such as parking lots, ramps) at the
low speed, it should be taken into
account that when the engine speed
is lower than the minimum one
(650 min
-1
), the clutch is disengaged
automatically to prevent the engine
stoppage. At the slope it can lead to
the moving of the vehicle down-
wards. In this case you need to drive
at the engine speed higher than the
minimum one.