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BYD F0. Service Manual - part 2

BYD AUTO

F0 Owner’s Manual

Rear back door

Engine hood

Close the side door glass as shown in the

Unlock: Insert the key into the key hole and

Open the engine hood:

above figure.

turn it clockwise.

When closing the rear back door, please

1.

Draw up the engine hood opening

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check whether it is effectively closed. For

handle. The engine hood will spring

considerations of baggage loading, please

up a little.

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The rear side window should be

refer to

“Considerations of baggage

pushed open completely; otherwise,

loading” in Section 2.

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the window side-opening mechanism

Before driving, make sure the

will automatically return.

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engine hood is closed and locked

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Be careful when closing rear

firm. Otherwise, in driving, the

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In driving, make sure the rear

side windows for hand-caught

engine hood may open suddenly

back door is closed. This can prevent

avoidance.

and cause accidents.

the baggage from being thrown out

and exhaust from entering the

compartment.

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Notice

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Hold the protection area to

avoid burning.

2.

Stand in front of the car, draw upward

the assistant handle of the engine hood

lock and lift the engine hood.

3.

Insert the engine hood bracket in the

groove to keep the engine hood open.

Move the engine hood bracket as shown in

Before closing the engine hood, check

the above figure.

whether there is any tool or rag left in the

engine hood. Place the engine hood bracket

back into its seat and then put down the

engine hood and check whether it is locked

up. If necessary, press its front edge to lock

Protection Area

it up.

As shown in the above figure, hold the

protection area and remove the engine hood

bracket from its seat.

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After the engine hood bracket is

inserted into the groove, make sure it

firmly supports the engine hood;

otherwise, the engine hood may fall

down and hurt you.

Fuel tank cap

1.

Open the fuel filler port.

In fuel injection, the engine should be kept

2.

For taking off the filler port lid, turn

turned off.

the key anti-clockwise for

90° to

position

1 in the above figure and,

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after a few seconds, take the key and

the fuel tank cap at the same time.

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Do not smoke in fuel injection.

If the fuel tank cap still cannot be taken off,

Sparks or flames will lead to fires.

please repeat the above operation.

When the fuel tank cap is taken out, a slight

This figure indicates that the fuel filler port

noise can be heard. It’s normal.

is on the left side of the car.

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For avoiding fuel outflow in

accidents, make sure the fuel tank

cap is screwed firm.

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Only genuine and original fuel

tank caps for BYD F0 autos can be

used for the replacement purpose.

They can adjust the pressure of the

fuel tank.

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For opening the fuel tank, the

cap should not be taken off suddenly.

In hot weather, if the fuel tank cap is

3.

For mounting the fuel tank cap, insert

taken off suddenly, pressurized fuel

the key with the fuel tank cap into the

may spurt out from the filling port

fuel hose, turn the key clockwise for

and cause human damage.

90° to position 1 in the above figure

and then take the key out.

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Seats

Front seat with

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double angel

When the automobile is driving, all

Do not adjust the seat when the

adjustment rod

car is driving, since sudden movement

passengers should adjust the seat backs

(Optional)

of the seat may lead to auto control

straightly upward, lean on the seat backs on

failure.

the back and use the seat belts correctly.

In seat adjustment, take care to

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avoid collision between the seat and

passengers or baggage.

The auto should not be actuated

After the seat is adjustment,

until all passengers have been seated

make sure it is locked up at its

down well. Do not sit on the upper back

Front seat with

position.

part of a folded seat or on trunk or

single angel

After seat adjustment, lean

baggage. In emergency braking or

adjustment rod

backward to see whether the seat

collisions, passengers whole have sat

(Optional)

back is locked up at its position.

straight or had the seat belts buckled up

may be seriously injured.

Do not place things under the

seat; this may affect the seat lockup

In driving, do not let passengers

mechanism and lead to some

stand up or move among seats;

movement of the seat, causing auto

otherwise, they may be seriously injured

control failure.

in emergency braking or collisions.

In seat adjustment, do not put

1. Seat front-rear position adjustment rod

your hand under the seat or near

Hold the middle of rod 1 and pull it upward,

moving parts; otherwise, your hand

Front seats

move the seat frontward and backward to the

or fingers may be injured.

desired position and then release the rod.

Considerations of seat adjustment

Adjust the driver seat to include the pedals,

Front seat adjustment

the steering wheel and the instrument panel

2. Seat back angle adjustment rod

controller into the easy-control range of the

Hold rod 2 and pull it backward, slope the back

controller.

to the desired angle and then release the rod.

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Head protection device

Seat belts can provide the

maximum protection in collision

Head Protection

accidents if the driver and passengers

Device

sit straight and lean on the seat

backs. If you lean on the seat back

obliquely, the seat belt part for the

waist may slide over your hip and

directly exerts pressure on your belly.

In front-collision accidents, over

obliquity of the seat may increase the

risk of human injuries.

Pull the right and left sides of the rear seat

back simultaneously backward. The left and

Rear seats

right unlocking belts will unlock the seat

For safety and comfort, the seats

are

Integrated fixed rear seat

back and fold it downward. The trunk will

equipped with head protection devices

be expanded to the backs of the front seats.

For considerations of baggage loading, refer

to

“Considerations of baggage loading”

Seat belts

in Section 2.

Consideration for use of seat belts:

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When returning the seat back to the

BYD strongly require that the driver

and

upright position, to prevent human

passenger in the vehicle wear seat belts at

injuries in accidents or emergency

any time to reduce the possibility of injuries

braking, the following preventive

in accidents.

measures should be taken:

Pull and push the seat back to make

sure it is firmly locked up.

Seat belts equipped on the vehicle are

Integrated foldable rear seat

Make sure the seat belt is not bent or

designed for adults and should be applied to

caught by the seat back and arrange it

čOptionalĎ

children with caution.

in the correct position.

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It is suggested to seat children in the rear

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In a time length, a seat belt can only

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seat with child chairs and fasten the seat belt

be used by one person. It’s not allowed

After the tab is inserted, make sure it

for protection. According to accident

that two or more persons share one seat

is locked up firm to the buckle and

statistics, it is safer to correctly protect

belt—even for children.

the seat belt is not twisted.

children in the rear seat than in the front

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Do not incline the seat back over. The

Do not leave small objects, e.g. coins,

seat.

seat belt has the best protection effect when

paper clips, etc. in the buckle. They

If a child has to be arranged in the front seat,

the seat back is in the upright position.

may affect the connection of the tab

(Refer to instructions on seat adjustment)

and the buckle.

it is necessary to use a child seat and fasten

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Caution: do not destroy the belt or

the seat belt correctly; otherwise, in

If the seat belt functions abnormally,

accidents, the airbag will deploy quickly

hardware of the seat belt; prevent them from

immediately inform BYD authorized

and cause severe injury to the child.

being caught in the seat or the door.

service stations. Before repaired, it

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Check the seat belt regularly to see

cannot protect passengers or children

Arranged in the front seat or the rear seat,

whether it has cutting lines, worn or loose

and may cause injuries.

children should not be allowed to stand or

parts. Damaged parts should be replaced

kneel. In emergency braking or crashes,

with new ones; the system should not be

unprotected children may be seriously

disassembled or modified.

Three-point

seat belt

injured. Similarly, do not seat children on

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Keep the seat belt clean and dry. For

your legs; as such, they won’t be fully

cleaning, use neutral soap water or slightly

protected.

hot water. Bleaching agents, dyes or

grinding cleaning agents are not suitable for

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seat belt cleaning—they may severely

When the vehicle is driving, passengers

reduce the protection performance of the

in it should sit in the seats and fasten

seat belt.

(See

“Interior cleaning” in

the seat belts correctly; otherwise, in

Section 5)

emergency braking or crashes, people

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After serious crashes, the seat belt

in the car are more prone to severe

system

(including screws) should be

injuries.

replaced, even if the damage is not so

In use of seat belts, the following

marked.

instructions should be abided by:

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Adjust the seat according to your demand

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For safety considerations, do

and sit upright in it; then, lean on the seat

not place the shoulder seat belt below

Tug the loose

back. To fasten your belt, pull it out of the

your arm.

part

retractor and insert the tab into the buckle.

After the tab is inserted into the buckle, a

Too high

clicking sound can be heard.

Length of the seat belt can be automatically

Keep this part as low as

adjusted according to the passenger figure

your hip

and the seat position.

In emergency braking or crashes, the

Adjust the seat belt at the waist and the

retractor will lock the seat belt. If you

shoulder.

incline forward too fast, it will also be

Keep the waist belt as low as the hip as far

locked. Slow and steady operation can

as possible—do not buckle it at your waist.

lengthen the seat belt so that you can feel

To release the belt, press the buckle-release

Then, tug the shoulder part upward through

free.

button on the buckle. The seat belt will

the catch plate and adjust the seat belt to an

automatically retract.

appropriate position.

If you cannot pull the seat belt out from the

If the seat belt cannot smoothly retract

retractor, tug it and then release it slowly.

automatically, tug it out to see whether there

Then, you can pull it out from the retractor

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is any knot or twist.

successfully.

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Waist seat belts fastened too

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high and seat belts assembled loosely

may slide below the waist and cause

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It should be make sureed that

severe injuries in crashes or other

the shoulder seat belt passes over the

accidents. Therefore, keep the waist

shoulder center. The seat belt should

belt as low as the hip as far as

be somewhat far away from the neck

possible.

without sliding off the shoulder.

Otherwise, its protection effect may

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Retract the excessive length of the seat belt

be reduced and severe human

injuries may be caused in crash

and adjust its position to keep it as low as

accidents.

the hip as far as possible.

To shorten the seat belt, tug the unfixed end.

Two-point seat belt

Keep the waist belt as low as the hip as far

pull

as possible—do not buckle it at your waist.

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Waist seat belts fastened too

high and assembled loosely may slide

below the waist and cause severe

injuries in crashes or other accidents.

Sidebag and windowbag (Optional)

Therefore, keep the waist belt as low

as the hip as far as possible.

Sit upright in your seat and lean on the back.

Fasten the seat belt and insert the tab into

Supplemental restraint system (optional)

the buckle.

Supplemental restraint system

(SRS,

After the tab is inserted into the buckle, a

abbreviated as airbag system)

is a

clicking sound can be heard.

supplement to seat belts. The airbag system

If the seat belt is not long enough, keep the

can provide extra protection for heads and

tab perpendicular to the seat belt and tug the

tab.

chests of the driver and passengers and

reduce casualties in severe frontal crashes.

too high

Airbag for the driver and the front The airbag system cannot take the place of

seat belts and is only a part of the whole

Adjust to an

passenger

appropriate

passive safety protection system of the

position

automobile. Note that the airbag system has

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the best protection performance only when

The airbag system is monitored by an

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working together with fastened seat belts.

electronic control unit and provided with

The following problems suggest faults

Therefore, for the safety of yourself and

self-diagnosis function. The system state

of the airbag system:

your family, please pay special attention to

can be indicated by a warning light on

The warning light won’t shine after

the

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the combined meter:

the ignition switch is turned on.

this section.

5s after the ignition switch is turned

Each time after the ignition switch is turned

on, the warning light won’t go out

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on, the airbag warning light turns on for

or start flashing again and shine after

about 5s and then goes out for longer than

Please keep the seat belt fastened

going out.

5s, the system can be considered as normal.

when the vehicle is driving!

The warning light turns on again

If the airbag has already been deactivated by

Please keep sitting in a correction

after the ignition switch is turned off.

a BYD authorized service station, but the

posture so that the protection effect

The warning light turns on or flashes

warning light still turns on and goes out as

of the seat belt and the airbag system

when the vehicle is driving.

above, it means the airbag has no protection

can be taken into full play.

function.

Do not dismount parts of the airbag

The warning light system is used for

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without permission!

monitoring the airbag ECU, the collision

In case of faults, have the airbag

sensor, the inflation device, the warning

system checked immediately in a

light, wires and the power supply.

(For

BYD authorized service station.

details, please refer to

“Maintenance

Otherwise, in accidents, partial or all

function of the airbag system may be

indicators and warning buzzers” in Section

1-5.)

affected!

Airbag triggering conditions

The airbag is designed to be triggered under

the following conditions: severe frontal

collision accidents will trigger the airbag

system; special collision accidents may

trigger the airbag system.

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In general, the airbag system won’t be

Protection principle of the airbag

occupant poisoning. A little smoke will be

triggered in mild front collision or side

Once the airbag system is triggered, air will

emitted after the airbag is expanded; it’s

collision accidents, in rear end collisions or

be immediately inflated into the airbag and

normal and not the indication of a fire, so

in turn-over accidents. In such accidents, the

make it full in front of the driver and the

please do not worry about it.

seat belt, if fastened, can protect the driver

passenger. The occupants will fall into the

The airbag system possibly won’t

be

in the normal way.

expanded airbag and the forward inertia will

triggered in the following accidents:

be polishered, thereby reducing the degrees

The decisive factor for triggering the airbag

of injuries to their heads, necks and chests.

Hitting on a cement pole, a tree

or

system is the comprehensive intelligent

The specially developed airbag can, after

other slim objects

comparison and judgment of the

expanded and then pressed by the driver and

deceleration curve produced in a collision

the passenger in an accident, absorb energy

and acquired by the electronic control unit

and discharge the air out at a certain rate so

(ECU) and the set value. If the automobile

as to reduce the effort of the airbag on the

deceleration signal produced and detected in

occupants and relieve injuries to them. After

the collision is lower than the set reference

the accident, air in the bag can be basically

value in the ECU, the airbag won’t be

discharged, so the frontward vision won’t

triggered even though the car may have

be hindered.

been severely deformed in the accident.

The airbag can be expanded within a few

ECU setting of BYD airbag system takes

fractions of a second so as to provide extra

Crashing into the bottom of a truck

various common misuse and domestic road

protection for the driver and the passenger

conditions into full consideration. However,

in accidents.

reasons and conditions of crashes are

variable, so, for your safety, please abide

Airbag expansion can produce a rather loud

strictly by this manual, use the automobile

noise but, in general, won’t cause injuries

correctly and avoid misuse; otherwise, the

(the possibility of ear ringing or temporary

expected protection effect of the airbag

deafness is not excluded, but these problems,

cannot be ensured.

if happening, can recover soon). The gas

produced in triggering the airbag system

may have some smell but won’t lead to

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The airbag may be triggered in the

following accidents:

Hitting on protruding objects, a

Rear Crash

Hit by other vehicles on the side

safety island or stones by the road

Bumping into a deep hole

Bumping into the wall with an angle

Side rollover

The airbag possibly won’t be triggered in

the above cases as shown in the figures.

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Hitting on the ground at the bottom of

belt correctly and maintain a correct

right of the instrument panel should

a slope

sitting posture. If you haven’t worn

be cleaned with only dry or slightly

the seat belt and lean forward or sit

wetted cloth and should not be

in an incorrect posture, the risk of

knocked at violently.

injuries in accidents with airbag

Don’t let child passenger sit in the

expansion may be increased.

front seat without protection. If a

It’s very important for the driver to

collision triggers the air bag, the child

maintain a distance of at least 25cm

passenger may get seriously injured

between the chest and the steering

or even killed.

wheel since only by doing so can the

Don’t stay or put any animals or

maximum protection effect be

objects near the driver, the front seat

The above accidents as shown in the figures

provided when the system is

passenger and the air bags. It is

may trigger the airbag.

triggered. That is to say, it’s

extremely dangerous for an adult to

The airbag may be triggered if the

necessary to adjust the front seats

hold a child on the legs.

automobile is severely impacted by the

and the headrest according to the

Don’t make any modifications to

bottom.

figure of each occupant; in addition,

none parts of the airbag system,

the driver’s arms should be bent

including corresponding labels.

Notice

only a little and stretched nearly

All modification to the airbag,

The airbag is designed to match the

straight.

including the repair other parts (such

certain vehicle models. Any changes

Do not paste or cover the surface of

as detachment of the steering wheel)

of the suspension, the tire size, the

the steering wheel lid or the surface

can only be made in BYD authorized

bumper, the chassis and other

near the airbag on the right of the

service stations.

original equipment may adversely

instrument panel with any objects or

The airbag system must be replaced

affect the function of the airbag. In

do any other decorative treatment.

in a BYD authorized service station

addition, it is strictly prohibited to

Telephone supports, cups, ashtrays,

within

15 years as of the date of

apply any airbag parts to other

etc. can increase the risk of injuries

delivery (manufacture date indicated

vehicle models; otherwise it might

in accidents with airbag inflation.

in the certificate).

lead to safety airbag system failure,

The surface of the steering wheel lid

The air bag can only provide

resulting in personal injuries.

or the surface near the airbag on the

protection once. Once the air bag is

During driving, please wear the seat

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The airbag system only functions in

4. central control unit (ECU)

front row can inflate quickly with

case of serious frontal collisions. It

5. airbag module for the driver (airbag and

high tension, so do move the seat

doesn’t mean that the airbag system has

inflation device)

backward as far as possible.

problems when it doesn’t respond to the

6. airbag module for seat side (bisidely

Otherwise, it may cause injury or

collision. Incorrect maintenance or

symmetrical) (Optional)

even death of children sitting there.

failure to repair faulty parts may affect

7. window bagmodule(bisidely symmetri-

the normal performance of the airbag

cal) (Optional)

system.

8. side collision sensor (bisidely symmetri-

cal) (Optional)

System parts

9. clock spring

Considerations

Warning

When the vehicle is driving, do

Move the seat

not sit on the edge of the seat or bend

The airbag system consists mainly of the

backward

over the instrument panel, since

following parts, the arrangement of which is

when the airbag inflates fast with

shown in the above figure:

powerful force, occupants directly

Warning

1. airbag collision sensor (bisidely

contacting or nearing the airbag may

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Child protection equipment

be killed or severely injured. Please

symmetrical)

should not be added to the front

keep sitting in a correct posture and

2. SRS warning light

passenger seat unless necessary. Since

3. airbag module for the occupant in the

please fasten your seat belt correctly.

the airbag for the occupant in the

front row (airbag and inflation device)

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