Audi 100 C3 owners manual page 41

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CONTROLS AND EQUIPMENT AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION Automatic Shift Lock (ASL) and apply the foot brake before and while Warning buzze r depressing the selector lever. Automatic Shift Lock Shift out of the Park position, before Your Audi is equipped with an Automatic releasing the parking brake. Shift Lock (ASL). The ASL is an When the vehicle is parked on a steep electromechanical device that locks the hill, shifting out of Park may be a little harder. T his is due to the vehicle' s weight selector lever in the P-Park and N-Neutral positions when the ignition is exerted on the transmission. on. The ASL prevents you from moving R – Reverse the selector lever out of the Park and Reverse should be selected only when Neutral positions unless you step on the the vehicle has come to a full stop and foot brake at the same time. tion. The warning buzzer will go off as the engine is running at idle speed. The shift lock in the N-Neutral position soon as the selector lever is moved to Before you move the selector lever to has a time delay of one second which the P-Park position. the reverse position you have to prevents the selector lever from locking depress the selector lever. Selector lever positions when it is moved briefly through the N N-Neutral position (for instance from R to D). The P-Park shift lock only locks the selector lever if it Engage Park only when the vehicle is Shift to this position for standing with is left in the N position for more than stationary . Therefore, w hen parking your brakes applied. about one second without the brake vehicle, apply the parking brake first, and When the vehicle is stationary or at pedal being depressed. then move the selector lever completely speeds below 3 mph/5 km/h, y ou must to position P. To do this depress the always apply the footbrake before and In N-Neutral position the shift lock is selector lev er and push it through R to while moving the lever out of N- automatically deactivated when driving P. When the R-Reverse position is Neutral. faster than approximately 3 mph/5 km/h. selected, you can shift to position P without depressing the selector lever. The ASL will not affect normal operation Do not use Neutral for coasting down- The transmission is then mechanically of your car. locked. hill. Coasting dow nhill with the trans- Warning buzzer Before you move the selector lever mission in Neutral and the engine not A warning buzzer will sound when you from the P-Park position to R-Reverse operating will result in damage to the Automatic tr ansmission. or any other position, you must open the driver's door with the selector lever left in any other but P-Park posi- always 39

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