Lancia Lybra User guide

Dear Customer,
Congratulations and thank you for choosing LANCIA.
We wrote this handbook to help you get the most out of your car’s outstanding qualities.
We advise to read it right through before taking to the road for the first time.
You will find information, tips and important warnings regarding the driving of your car to help you
derive the maximum from your LANCIA’s technological features. You will discover unique features and
details; you will also find essential information for car care and servicing as well as driving and operat-
ing safety not to mention the long-term wellbeing of your LANCIA.
The enclosed Warranty Booklet lists the services you have acquired and contains details relating to
the following:
• the Warranty Certificate, with terms and conditions for maintaining it
• the range of services offered to LANCIA owners.
We are sure that these instruments will help you easily attune to and appreciate both your new car
and the LANCIA team that will be on hand to provide you with any help you may require.
Best regards and have a great trip.

MUST BE READ!
REFUELLING
Petrol engines: only refuel with unleaded petrol with octane rating (RON) no less than 95.
Diesel engines: only refuel with diesel fuel conforming to the European specification EN590.
ENGINE START-UP
Make sure the handbrake is pulled up; put the gear lever into neutral; press the clutch pedal down to the floor
without touching the accelerator; then:
petrol engines: turn the ignition key to AVV and release it as soon as the engine starts.
diesel engines: turn the ignition key to MAR and wait for the instrument panel warning lights ¢and m
to go out, then turn the ignition key to AVV and release it as soon as the engine starts.
PARKING OVER INFLAMMABLE MATERIAL
When functioning normally, the catalytic converter reaches high temperatures. For this reason do not park
the car over inflammable material, grass, dry leaves, pine needles, etc.: fire hazard.
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PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
A system for continuously monitoring emission system components to ensure greater environmental
protection is fitted in your car.
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ELECTRICAL ACCESSORIES
If, after buying the car, you decide to add electrical accessories (that will gradually drain the battery), visit a
Lancia Dealership. They can calculate the overall electrical requirement and check that the car's electric
system can support the required load.
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CODE card
Keep the code card in a safe place, not in the car. You should always keep the electronic code written on the
CODE card with you in case you need to carry out an emergency start-up procedure.
SCHEDULED SERVICING
Correct maintenance of the car is essential for ensuring it stays in tip-top condition and safeguards its safety
features, its environmental friendliness and low running costs for a long time to come.
THE OWNER HANDBOOK CONTAINS …
… information, tips and important warnings regarding the safe, correct driving of your car, and its
maintenance. Pay particular attention to the symbols "(personal safety) #(environmental protection) â
(the car’s wellbeing).

TRAVELLING SAFELY AND IN HARMONY WITH NATURE
Safety and respect for the environment are the guidelines that inspired the Lybra’s design from the
drawing board onwards.
This concept has meant that the Lybra has been able to face and pass the strictest safety tests. So
much so that, from this point of view, the car is the best in its class and has probably already incorpo-
rated features that belong to the future.
In addition, ongoing research into new and effective features to help safeguard the environment
makes the Lybra and car to imitate for this reason as well.
All versions are in fact equipped with environmental protection devices that reduce harmful exhaust
fumes in compliance with the limits provided for by current legislation.
What is more, every single component of the Lybra is fully recyclable. At the end of your car’s life-
span any LANCIA dealership would be please to make arrangements for your car to be recycled.
Nature benefits in two ways: there is no pollution for waste disposal and the demand for raw materi-
als is reduced.
Nature benefits in two ways: there is no pollution for waste disposal and the demand for raw mate-
rials is reduced.

SAFEGUARDING THE ENVIRONMENT
Safeguarding the environment has directed the design and manufacturing of the Lybra right from
the start. The result is the use of materials and the perfection of devices that can reduce or sweep-
ingly reduce harmful influences on the environment.
The Lybra, equipped with environment safeguarding devices which curtail harmful exhaust gas
emissions, is ready to travel well ahead of the most stringent international pollution control stan-
dards.
USE OF ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY MATERIALS
None of the car’s components contain asbestos. Padding and the climate control system do not
contain CFC (chlorofluorocarbides) - the gases considered responsible for the destruction of the
ozone layer. Other substances that might pollute air and water tables, such as the cadmium in the
rust-proof coating of the bolts and the chromates in some paints, have been completely replaced
with substances that do not harm the environment.

DEVICES FOR REDUCING PETROL ENGINE EMISSIONS
Three-way catalytic converter (catalytic exhaust pipe)
Carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and unburned hydrocarbons are the main harmful components
in exhaust gasses.
The catalytic converter is a “miniature laboratory” where a very high percentage of these compo-
nents are converted into harmless substances.
This conversion is aided by minute particles of precious metals on the ceramic core enclosed in a
stainless steel container.
Lambda sensor
All petrol versions are fitted with this device. It ensures that air and fuel are constantly mixed in
the correct proportion. This is a fundamental condition for proper engine and catalytic converter
operation.
Fuel evaporation canister
As it is impossible to stop the build up of petrol fumes, also when the engine is not running, the
system traps them in a special container holding active carbon. The fumes are sucked in from here
and burnt while the engine is running.

DEVICES FOR REDUCING DIESEL ENGINE EMISSIONS
Oxidising catalytic converter
This device converts the pollution substances in the exhaust gas (carbon monoxide, unburned
hydrocarbons and particulate) into harmless substances, thus reducing the smokiness and smell
associated with diesel engine exhaust fumes.
The catalytic converter consists of a stainless steel case containing a honeycomb ceramic core in
which there is precious metal which carries out the catalysing action.
Exhaust Gas Recirculation (E.G.R. Cooled) system
This system recirculates or reuses part of the exhaust gas in a proportion which varies according to
engine operation conditions.
When necessary, it is used for the control of nitrogen oxide emissions.

THE SIGNS TO HELP YOU DRIVE CORRECTLY
The signs you see on this page are very important. They highlight those parts of the handbook
where, more than elsewhere, you should stop for a minute and read carefully.
As you can see, each sign has a different symbol to make it immediately clear and easy to identify
the subjects in the different areas:
Personal safety.
Important. Total or partial failure to
follow these instructions can place
driver, passengers or others in serious
danger.
Environmental protection.
This shows you the correct procedures
to follow to ensure that the car does
not harm the environment.
Car wellbeing.
Important. Total or partial failure to
follow these instructions will result in
the risk of serious damage to the car
and may invalidate the warranty as
well.

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Battery
Corrosive fluid.
SYMBOLS
Special coloured labels have been at-
tached near or actually on some of the
components of your Lybra. These la-
bels bear symbols that remind you of
the precautions to be taken as regards
that particular component.
A list of the symbols to be found on
your Lybra is given below with the
name of the component to which it re-
lates at the side of it.
These symbols are divided into the
following four categories: danger, pro-
hibition, warning and obligation.
DANGER SYMBOLS
Battery
Explosion.
Fan
May cut in automatically
even when the engine is
turned off.
Expansion tank
Do not remove the cap
when the coolant is hot.
Coil
High voltage.
Belts and pulleys
Moving parts: keep parts
of the body and clothes
away.
Climate control tubing
Do not open. Gas under
high pressure.