Contemporary vehicles have a growing number of features and although they bring us a lot of convenience, some of them are not always simple to operate. Regardless you have rented a car, been lent one, or just bought a Kia Stronic, depending on its features, it can be challenging to understand how to start a Kia Stronic? Even if this required act of running a car may seem evident to most of you, depending on the options and the year of production of your car, it will be more or less basic to do so. Today we will explain the several methods to start a Kia Stronic with the key, then, in a second section, how to switch on a Kia Stronic with a card, and to finish, without using the key.
How to start a Kia Stronic with key?
So we commence our content which aims to show you how to start a Kia Stronic, which is furnished with a classic key start. Find below the different measures to be carried out to turn on the engine of your Kia Stronic:
- Determine the position of the neiman (hole in which the key is introduced), it is most of the time on the right side of your steering wheel, on the dash. If your steering wheel is blocked, do not be reluctant to browse our content on the steering wheel blocked on Kia Stronic that is blocked to find out how to unblock it.
- Put the key into this one.
- Check that you are in neutral for a manual car and in the “N” or “P” position for an automatic transmission.
- Turn the ignition on by turning it clockwise a quarter turn until you feel you’ve passed the first notch.
- Check on your dashboard that the orange lights turn off, if you don’t know what they suggest don’t be reluctant to browse our content on orange lights on Kia Stronic to know the explanation for this.
- You just have to go one more notch clockwise and hold it in the stop until your Kia Stronic starts (do not let your starter run more than 10 seconds otherwise you risk damaging it, if the car does not start, let it cool down a few tens of seconds before a new testing)
- That’s it. You managed to start your Kia Stronic,
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How to start a Kia Stronic with the key card?
After discovering how to turn on the engine of a Kia Stronic with key or will teach you you how to do it for a Kia Stronic equipped with a key card and not a key. The method is roughly the same, so don’t be reluctant to get back to the previous section to have information on each of the steps to do. Learn down below the guidelines to adhere to to start your Kia Stronic with a card:
- Dependant upon the year and the series, you may or may not need to put in the card in a specific slot, verify on your dashboard if your Kia Stronic is equipped with this slot or not.
- If it has one, insert the card in this hole, otherwise you can keep the card on you or anywhere in the cabin.
- Locate the “start” button, which is in most cases based at steering wheel height close to the classic neiman location, otherwise it is in most cases positioned on the centre console.
- Check that you’re in neutral or neutral on an automatic transmission.
- Push the “start” button once to turn on the ignition of your Kia Stronic
- Push a second time after a few seconds or extinction of the orange lights on your dashboard to start your Kia Stronic
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How do I start a Kia Stronic without a key?
And to finish, we will discover, how to start a Kia Stronic without a key? Let’s imagine that you have lost your keys and your car is open, this could seem logical. However, you should know that if your Kia Stronic is more modern than the mid 90’s it will be difficult to start it without a key because of all the security systems present on it. As expected, this should only be done on YOUR car. Here is the method to adhere to:
- Remove the cover that covers your steering wheel and locate among the 3 electric switches the one that concerns your engine/battery/starter (to help you, please bring your user manual).
- Strip, connect them mutually and separate the battery and ignition wires (be careful not to electrocute yourself during the procedure). You now have electricity as if you had the contact
- At last, strip the starter wire and connect it quickly with the battery wire (do not make prolonged contact and only 1 or 2 seconds should be enough to start your Kia Stronic).
There, you’ve learned all the solutions to start a Kia Stronic.
If you want more tutorials on the Kia Stronic, go to our Kia Stronic category.
