I've been an electronics tech for just over 65 years and am still a bit overwhelmed by the range of features in this vehicle. (I've been driving since cars had 6 Volt electrical systems and optional radio contained only vacuum tubes. I tell my friends that I know why car makers can't build enough cars due to a chip shortage is because all the chips are in my new Telluride!
I've been trying to digest the 3 manuals that came with it but they leave a lot to be desired. Though the car itself exhibits fantastic fit and fixture quality, the manuals a major source of frustration. Simple searches of the index yield only frustration and it appears to have been mostly written by the KIA legal department with warnings repeated endlessly! A few examples: A search of the index for cruise control yields nothing.
The manual mentions an AC inverter (A feature I only used once in my Caravan, but I might use if I could find the outlet, but instead of telling you where it is, they furnished a very small low contrast photo which could be almost anywhere in the interior.) When I took my wife to a hospital appointment a hundred miles away that required being gone all day, I had to take the dog. We parked in the parking garage near the hospital and before we could get into the elevator to go down the KIA's horn started blasting repeatedly and did so every couple of minutes.
My phone informed me that there was movement inside the locked car. I couldn't take the dog with us so we left and the next day I attempted to find a way to temporarily defeat the movement alarm for future knowledge but neither the manual nor Google yielded the answer so I'll head on down to my KIA dealer to get the secret solution. When I do, I'll post it on this forum, since I'm confident that I'm not the only Telluride owner who sometimes has to lock his/her pet in their car.
I've been trying to digest the 3 manuals that came with it but they leave a lot to be desired. Though the car itself exhibits fantastic fit and fixture quality, the manuals a major source of frustration. Simple searches of the index yield only frustration and it appears to have been mostly written by the KIA legal department with warnings repeated endlessly! A few examples: A search of the index for cruise control yields nothing.
The manual mentions an AC inverter (A feature I only used once in my Caravan, but I might use if I could find the outlet, but instead of telling you where it is, they furnished a very small low contrast photo which could be almost anywhere in the interior.) When I took my wife to a hospital appointment a hundred miles away that required being gone all day, I had to take the dog. We parked in the parking garage near the hospital and before we could get into the elevator to go down the KIA's horn started blasting repeatedly and did so every couple of minutes.
My phone informed me that there was movement inside the locked car. I couldn't take the dog with us so we left and the next day I attempted to find a way to temporarily defeat the movement alarm for future knowledge but neither the manual nor Google yielded the answer so I'll head on down to my KIA dealer to get the secret solution. When I do, I'll post it on this forum, since I'm confident that I'm not the only Telluride owner who sometimes has to lock his/her pet in their car.
