Lada GRANTA, User Manual

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ator and brake pedals. The first gear
in all cases is the standard gear for
starting.
After the start-up of engine, shift-
ing selector to R , A or M positions
and moving the foot from the brake
pedal to the accelerator pedal,
releasing of the handbrake (if it is on)
and pressing the accelerator pedal
the car starts moving. Gear changing
in
A mode is performed fully auto-
matically.
The driver can use the gear
change lever (Fig. 47) to terminate
the automatic mode at any time for
manual intervention in the automatic
drive system. The driver can keep
the actual gear or can downshift or
upshift manually. If upshifting or
downshifting leads to the increased
engine speed the wrong gear shifting
could be blocked.
The following information about
the robotic gearbox operation is dis-
played on the instrument panel:
– engaged gear,
– automatic or manual mode
( AUTO or MANUAL ),
– brake pedal operation condi-
tion.
Automated gearbox gear
change lever
Gear change lever has got 2 lines
(Fig. 48) – one for shifting from neu-
tral position
(N) to reverse (R) or
automatic mode (A) and the second
is for upshifting or downshifting in
manual mode
(M) . Two lines are
linked together for the switching
between automatic mode
(A) and
manual mode.
Manual mode (M) can be activat-
ed only from automatic mode (A) .
Reverse gear (R) can be activated
only from neutral position (N) .
Upshifting (+) or downshifting (–) is
possible only in manual mode (M) .
(N) , (R) , (А) , (M) positions are
fixed, (+) and (–) positions are not
fixed.
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Fig. 47. Gear change lever
Fig. 48. Gear change lever scheme