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:
All tire pressures (including the spare) should be checked when the tires are
cold. “Cold Tires” means the vehicle has not been driven for at least three hours
or driven less than 1.6 km (1 mile).
Recommended pressures must be maintained for the best ride, top vehicle handling,
and minimu ...
Schematic diagrams
Connector and Terminal Function
Repair procedures
Removal
1.
Disconnect the negative battery terminal.
2.
Remove the crash pad lower panel.
(Refer to Body - "Crash Pad Lower Panel")
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