BYD F6 User manual

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BYD F6 OWNERS MANUAL

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Foreword
Welcome choosing BYD F6. To help you know BYD F6 well and quickly, please read this manual thoroughly.
BYD F6 adopts EFI engine, its wiring harness is very complex, please do not install the device by yourself as: anti-theft system, central control
lock, power window, audio and so on, otherwise the failure caused by it will be not covered by the “Warranty" of BYD.
Should drive the vehicle according to the contents that marked with “security label” or “vehicle damage”to avoid injury or damage.
Thedenotationandusingmethodasfollows: Securitylabel
The illustrations in this manual are only for reference.
BYD AUTO CO., LTD reserves all rights to technical features and contents
in this manual without any restrictions and notice in advance.
Thanks for choosing BYD F6, warmly welcome your valuable suggestions.
Friendly tips
Precautions to avoid vehicle damage or personal injury
Notice
Precautions to be followed to make maintenance easier
This label means “can not do
that” or “can not make i
t
happened

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CONTENTS
F6 SPECIFICATION AND BRIEF INTRODUCTION………...1
Specification…………………………………………………………1
Brief introduction………………………………………….…………2
DRIVER AND PASSENGER SAFETY…………………………..4
Important Safety Precautions and Safety equipment……………...…4
Seat Belt and Airbag……………………………...…………………6
Fatalness of carbin monoxide…………..…………………………21
Safety label………………………………………..………………22
INSTRUMENT AND CONTROL DEVICE……………………23
Position of control switchs…………………..……………………25
Instrument Panel Indicators……………………….………………26
Control buttons around steering wheel……………………………33
Lights/signal lamp/rightness of dashboard..………………………34
Windshield wiper/washer/ Rear windshield defogger…………… 37
Steering wheel adjustment…………………………...……………39
Key and lock/key/…………………………………………………40
Ignition switch……………………………….……………………42
Power door lock/ Remote control/ Children safety lock…………43
Trunk/ Glove box/ Seat adjustment/ Power window/ Power sun roof/
rearview mirror……………………………...……………………48
Parking brake/ Front seat armrest…………………………………62
Sunglass box/ Central bill box/ Central storage box/ Accessory
electrical source socket……………………………...……………63
Cup holder/ Coin box/ Sun visor/ Vanity mirror/ Cigarette lighter/
ashtray/ Interior reading light………………………………………64
COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE EQUIPMENT…………..70
Interior air control system…………………………………………70
Audio system………..……………………………………………74
Safety system…………...…………………………………………83
BEFORE DRIVING……………………………………………...87
Running in period…………………………………………………88
Gasoline/Operation in petrol station fuel tank filling………………88
Open engine hood…………………………………………...……90
DRIVING…………………………………………………......….. 98
Driving preparation/ Start engine/ Start in high altitude cold
weather…...………………………………………………………....99
Manual transmission/ Automatic transmission……………..……102
Unlock shift lock /park/brake system/ ABS……..………………104
ABS indicator/ Driving in atrocious weather/ Trailer……...……104

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MAINTENANCE………………………………………………112
Periodical maintenance schedule/ Stated maintenance record……113
Owner inspection for maintenance/engine oil/cooling system……119
Windshield washer/ Transmission oil/ Brake fluid and clutch fluid131
Air filter core/ Fuel filter/ Spark plug/ Battery/ Windshield wiper
blade…………………………………………………………......137
Air conditioner/ Dust filter/ Timing belt/tire/lamps………………146
Vehicle storage…………………………………...………………170
APPEARANCE MAINTENANCE………...…………………171
Washing/ Cere care/ Alloy wheel/ Painting repair……………...…172
Interior maintenance……………………………..…………....…174
EMERGENT MALFUNCTION SOLUTION…………….…179
Replace a flat tire…………………………………...………....…180
If engine can’t start/ Can’t start engine or starter running slowly185
Starter running normally/ Pushing car to start engine/ Engine
overheating…..…………………………………………......….. 186
Engine oil pressure indicator/ Battery charging indicator/ Engine
malfunction indicator/ Brake system indicator……………..……190
Close power sun roof/fuse/ Replacing the burned fuse…………194
Emergent towing…………………………………………………203
TECHNICAL DATA……………………………………...……205
Identification no.…………………………………………………206
Specification…………………………………………………..…208

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F6 specification
Product t
yp
e
Q
CJ7200E series
Q
CJ7240E series
Len
g
th（㎜） 4846
Width
(
㎜
)
1822
Dimensions
Hei
g
ht
(
㎜
)
1465
Wheelbase
(
㎜
)
2740
Front
(
㎜
)
1551
Track Rea
r
(
㎜
)
1551
Curb wei
g
ht
(
㎏
)
1435 1480
Total wei
g
ht
(
㎏
)
1810 1855
Tire type 205/65 R15 ，205/60 R16
Approach angle (°) 14°5
Departure angle (°) 16°
Front Sus
p
ension
(
㎜
)
1016
Rear sus
p
ension
(
㎜
)
1090
Basic type 5
Top speed (km/h) 185 200
Engine BYD483QB 4G69S4M
Brand L4/16 Valve MPI DOHC L4/16 Valve MPI SOHC
Displacement (ml) 1.991 2.378
Rated Power (kW) 103 118
Gradeabilit
y
(
﹪
)
35
﹡Min.fuel consum
p
tion
(
L/100k
m
)
6.9 7.6
* The actual fuel consumption will depend on the vehicle condition, road condition, driving habit and so on.

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Brief introduction

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Control panel
*If you want to use the horn, just press the panel around the “BYD” logo.

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Driver and Passenger Safety
Important Safety Precautions
You’ll find many safety recommendations
throughout this section, and throughout this
manual. The recommendations on this page
are the ones we consider to be the most
important.
Always Wear Your Seat Belt
A seat belt is your best protection in all
types of collisions. Airbags are designed to
supplement seat belts, but they are designed
to inflate when the vehicle activate in
response to a severe frontal impact or other
special impact. So even though your vehicle
is equipped with airbags, make sure you and
your passengers always wear your seat belts,
and wear them properly.
Restrain All Children
Children should be properly restrained in a
back seat not in front seat. That is the best
safety. Infants and small children should be
restrained in a child booster when they can
not wear seat belt.
Be Aware of Airbag Hazards
While airbags can save lives, they can cause
serious or fatal injuries to occupants who sit
too close to them, or are not properly
restrained. Infants, young children, and
short adults are at the greatest risk. Be sure
to follow all instructions and warnings in
this manual. (refer to 7th page)
Don’t Drink and Drive
Alcohol and driving don’t mix. Even one
drink can reduce your ability to respond to
changing conditions, and your reaction gets
worse with every additional drink. So don’t
drink and drive, and don’t let your friends
drink and drive, either.
Control Your Speed
Excessive speed is a major factor in crash
injuries and deaths. Generally, the higher
the speed, the greater the risk, but serious
injuries can also occur at lower speeds.
Never drive faster than is safe for current
conditions, regardless of the maximum
speed posted.
Keep Your Vehicle in Safe
Condition
Having a tire blowout or a mechanical
failure can be extremely hazardous. To
reduce the possibility of such problems,
check your tire pressures and condition
frequently, and perform all regularly
scheduled maintenance (refer to 114th page)

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Safety equipment
Your vehicle is equipped with many features
that work together to protect you and your
passengers during a crash.
Some features do not require any action on
your parts. These include a strong steel
framework that forms a safety cage around
the passenger compartment, front and rear
crush zones will absorb the impact energy
with crumpled in a crash, a collapsible
steering column, and tensioners that tighten
the front seat belts in a crash.
However, you and your passengers can’t
take full advantage of these features unless
you remain sitting in a proper position and
always wear seat belts. In fact, some safety
features can contribute to injuries if they are
not used properly.
The following pages explain how you can
take an active role in protecting yourself
and your passengers。

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Three-point safety belt
Such type seat belt use a single belt across
your shoulders, chest and hip.
To fasten your belt, pull it out of the
retractor and insert the tab into the buckle.
After inserting the tab, then tug on the belt
to make sure the tab and the buckle are
locked.
To release the belt, press the red
buckle-release button and allow the belt to
retract.
To release the belt, press
the red buckle-release button and allow the
belt to retract. Your seat belt system also
includes an indicator on the instrument
panel and a buzzer to remind you and your
passengers to fasten your seat belts.
Safety belt tensioner（optional）
Automatic tensioner is mainly designed to
affect and activate in any collision severe
enough to cause the front airbags to deploy.
When the airbag system is active during a
crash, the automatic tensioner also can
provide help.
When the automatic tensioners are activated,
seat belts will maintain tight state until they
are unlocked by using normal manner.
The SRS light will be lit
up to alerts you to a potential problem with
your seat belt tensioner. (refer to 20th page).
Friendly tips
1 Seat belts are designed to support the
body's bones. So wear the seat belts
across the front of the pelvisl as low as
possible, that is to say, the belts should
across the pelvis, chest and shoulder.
Which means should avoid part of belt
acrossing the abdomen.
2 Wearing seat belts should be taut with
the principle of comfort, so that the
design can achieve the protective effect.
Relaxation seat belts will greatly reduce
the protection function.
3 Not wear twisted seat belts.
4 Each seat belt can only be used by
one person. Seat belts bypass in the
arms of children is extremely
dangerous.

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Airbag
Your vehicle has a supplemental restraint
system (SRS) with front airbags to help
protect the heads and chests of the driver
and a front seat passenger during a
moderate severe frontal collision
Side airbag (optional)
Your vehicle has side airbags to help protect
the upper torso of the driver or a front seat
passenger during a moderate severe side
impact.
Friendly tips
1．Airbags do not replace seat belts.
They are designed to supplement the
seat belts.
2．Airbags offer no protection in rear
impacts, or minor frontal or side
collisions.
3．Airbags can pose hazards.
To do their job, airbags must inflate
with tremendous force. So while
airbags help save lives, they can cause
minor injuries or more serious or even
fatal injuries if occupants are not
properly restrained or sitting properly.
What you should do: Always wear your
seat belt properly, and sit upright and as
far away from the steering wheel as
possible while allowing full control of
the vehicle. A front passenger should
move their seat as far away from the
dashboard as possible.

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Seat and seat back
This vehicle seat’s design allows you to
maintain a comfortable, straighten sitting,
and are able to farthest obtain the protection
provided by the energy absorption material
of seat belts and seats.
How to adjust your seat and seat back could
also affect your safety. For example, near
the steering wheel or dashboard too closed
will increase the possibility that you or
passengers are injured by the in floatable
airbag or goods inside.
If the seat backrest is too tilted, which will
reduce the protective effect of the seat belts.
That will increase the possibility of serious
injury as felling out from wearing seat belts.
What you should do: Try to motion front
belt backward, and maintain the adjustable
seatback always vertical state driving.
Headrest
Headrest can be prevented neck sprains and
other injuries. In order to get the best
protective effect, adjust your head restraint
to make your occiput rest against the center
of the headrest.

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Table of safety inspection before
driving
To ensure that you and your passenger can
be protected maximum by the security
facilities protection of vehicles, please
check the following matter each time before
driving:
1.Be sure all adults and children with no
suitable protection device always wear seat
belts and wear them properly.(refer to 6th
page)
2．All infants should be placed in properly
the child protection unit in the back seat.
(refer to 10th page)
3．A front passenger should sit upright and
as far away from the steering wheel and
dashboard as possible.
4．Seat back should remain upright.
5．Adjust headrest correctly.
6．After everyone has entered the vehicle,
be sure the doors are closed and locked.
Your vehicle has a door and
trunk open monitor on the instrument panel
to indicate when a specific door or the trunk
is not tightly closed.
7．All baggage must be properly stored and
fixed good.
Other parts of this chapter will be more
detail on how to ensure your safety
maximum.
Remember, however, that no safety system
can prevent all injuries or deaths that can
occur in a severe crash, even when seat
belts are properly worn and the airbags
deploy.

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Advice to pregnant woman
1.The best way to protect your unborn child
is protect yourself well. So when driving or
riding in a vehicle is to always wear a seat
belt, and keep the lap part of the belt as low
as possible across the hips.
2．When driving, remember to sit upright
and adjust the seat as far away from the
steering wheel and dashboard as possible
while allowing full control of the vehicle.
This will reduce the risk of injuries to both
you and your unborn child hat can be
caused by a crash or an inflating front
airbag.
Friendly tips
Each time you have a checkup, ask our
doctor if it’s okay for you to drive.
Advice to genearch
1．Never hold an infant or child on your lap.
If you are not wearing a seat belt in a crash,
you could be thrown forward and crush the
child against the dashboard.
2．Never put a seat belt over yourself and a
child. During a crash, the belt could press
deep into the child and cause serious or fatal
injuries.
Friendly tips
1．Never let two people use the same seat
belt. If do that, they could be very seriously
injured in a crash.
2．Do not add any other accessory to the
seat belt.
3．Do not place the hard or sharp objects
between you and positive airbag.
4．Do not attach or place articles in the
cover of airbag.
5．In some cars equipped with side air bags,
not in the side door or door attachment hard
object
6．Do not make hand or arm near the cover
of airbag.
7．Use childproof door locks to prevent
children from opening the doors. This can
prevent children from accidentally falling
out.
8．Please use the main switch power
windows, prevent children from playing

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with power windows, or else they might be
dangerous when their body are out of the
car window.
9．Do not leave children alone in a vehicle.
A child left alone with the key in the
ignition switch can accidentally set the
vehicle in motion, possibly injuring
themselves or others.
Extreme danger！
Under the section 94 of ECE regulations:
Do not place a rear-facing child seat in the
front seat with airbag.
Side air bag inflating resulting in serious
injuries or even death if body physical tilt
forward on the front door.
To remind you of dangerous side airbags,
your vehicle is posted with warning signs
on both sides of the front door frames.

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Supplementary data for airbag
Your (SRS) includes:
1．Two SRS (supplemental restraint system)
front airbags. The driver’s airbag is stored in
the center of the steering wheel; the front
passenger’s airbag is stored in the
dashboard. Both are marked ‘‘SRS
AIRBAG’’
2．Two side curtain airbags, one for each
side of the vehicle. The airbags are stored in
the ceiling, above the side windows. The
front and rear pillars are marked ‘‘SRS
SIDE AIRBAG’’ (refer to 52th page)
3．Automatic front seat belt tensioner, can
tension the seat belt with a moderate to
severe frontal impact. (refer to 6th page)
4．Sensors that can detect a moderate to
severe frontal impact.
5．A sophisticated electronic system that
continually monitors and records
information about the sensors, the control
unit, the airbag activators, the seat belt
tensioners, and driver and front passenger
seat belt use when the ignition switch is in
the ON (II) position.
6．An indicator on the instrument panel that
alerts you to a possible problem with your
airbags, sensors, or seat belt tensioners and
so on. (refer to 26th page)
7．Emergency backup power in case your
vehicle’s electrical system is disconnected
in a crash.
How does front airbag works
If you ever have a moderate to severe
frontal collision, sensors will detect the
vehicle’s rapid deceleration. If the rate of
deceleration is high enough, the control unit
will instantly inflate the driver’s and front
passenger’s airbags, at the same time
activate automatic seat belts tensioner.

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During a frontal crash, your seat belt
restrains your lower body and trunk, and the
front airbag helps protect your head and
chest. The belt pretensions will tighten and
lock seat belts to maintain your in-situ
fixed.
Although both airbags normally inflate
within a split second of each other, it is
possible for only one airbag to deploy.
This can happen if the severity of a collision
is at the margin, or threshold, that
determines whether or not the airbags will
deploy. In such cases, the seat belt will
provide sufficient protection, and the
supplemental protection offered by the
airbag would be minimal.
After inflating, the front airbags will
immediately deflate, so they won’t interfere
with the driver’s visibility, or the ability to
steer or operate other controls.
The total time for inflation and deflation is
one-tenth of a second, so fast that most
occupants are not aware that the airbags
deployed until they see them lying in their
laps.
The loudly noise will with the airbag
deploying, generally it not cause the hurt
(but eliminate the possible of a drumming in
the ears or temporary lost audition, it will be
as soon as well).After a crash, you may see
what looks like smoke. This is actually
powder from the airbag’s surface. Although
the powder is not harmful, people with
respiratory problems may experience some
temporary discomfort. If this occurs, get out
of the vehicle as soon as it is safe.

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How does side airbag works
（optional）
There are two side airbags for passengers
and you. The airbags are stored in the front
seat side near to windows where are
marked "SRS SIDE AIRBAG”.
If you ever have a moderate to severe side
impact, sensors will detect rapid
deceleration and signal the control unit to
instantly inflate either the driver’s or the
passenger’s side airbag.
Only one airbag will deploy during a side
impact. If the impact is on the passenger’s
side, the passenger’s side airbag will deploy
even if there is no passenger.
To get the best protection from the side
airbags, front seat occupants should wear
their seat belts and sit upright and well back
in their seats.
Friendly tips
Using the airbags what are not the BYD
airbags may causes the decrease for the
airbag capability or accidental hurt for
the passengers.
Never place the anything between the
side airbag and the passengers.
Do not stress over force on the seat side
that are equipped with side airbags.

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The possible causes for nodeploy airbags
If the circs occurred as the above illustration,
the airbags may do not deploy.

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The possible causes for airbag
deploying
The airbags may deploy if the vehicles
during the severe impact from the bottom as
the above illustration.