1993 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE Owners Manual

How to Use this Manual
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Here youW find information about
the seats in your Pontiac. your Supplemental Inflatable Restraint
(“air bag”) system and how
to use
your safety belts properly
. You can
also learn about some things you
should
not do with safety belts .
Part 1
Seats & Safety Belts
Seats and Seat Controls ........................................... 10
SafetyBelts
...................................................... 13
How to Wear Safety Belts Properly .................................... 18
Driver Position
....................................... ...... 18
Supplemental Inflatable Restraint System (Air Bag)
..................... 22
Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy
.................................... 29
Right Front Passenger Position
....................................... 29
Center Passenger Position
........................................... 30
Children
......................................................... 33
Smaller Children and Babies
......................................... 33
Child Restraints
................................................... 34
LargerChildren ................................................... 42
Safety Belt Extender
............................................... 43
Replacing Safety Belts After a Crash
............................... 44
Rear Seat Passengers ..................... ...................... 31
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Seats & Safety Eelts
rn Seats and Seat Controls
This section tells you about the seats-
how to adjust them-and also about
reclining seatbacks and head restraints.
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Manual Front Seat
A You can lose control of the
1 vehicle if you try to adjust a
manual driver's seat while the
vehicle
is moving. The sudden
movement could startle and
confuse you, or make
you push a
pedal when
you don't want to.
Adjust the driver's seat
only when
the vehicle is not moving.
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Move the control lever under the front
of the seat to unlock it. Slide the seat to
where you want it. Then release the
lever and
try to move the seat with your
body, to make sure the seat is locked
into place.
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Power Seat (OPTION)
To adjust the power seat on some
models:
Front Control (A): Raise the front of
the seat by holding the switch up. Lower
the front
of the seat by holding the
switch down.
Center Control (B): Move the seat
forward or back by holding the control
to the right or left.
Move the seat higher by holding the
control up. Lower the seat by holding
the control down.
Rear Control (C): Raise the rear of the
seat by holding the switch
up. Lower the
rear
of the seat by holding the switch
down.
Adjustable Suppot Seat (omoN)
On some models, you'll find the
controls on the center console. Slide the
selector switch
to L or R to choose the
front seat
you want to adjust.
JbAdjusts the seat forward
or back.
AJ Adjusts the seat up or down. I
4 Adjusts the seatback to an upright
*or reclined position. Don't have a
seatback reclined if your vehicle
is moving.
Adjusts the position of the
seatback side bolsters.
'9 Tilts the rear of the seat up or
Ad Tilts the front of the seat up or
down.
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Adjustable Support Seat (CONTJ
Lumbar Controls
I Reshapes the lower back area of
the seat.
d. Reshapes the middle back area of
the seat.
n
& Reshapes the upper back area of
the seat.
Manual Reclining Seatback
(OPTION)
Lift the lever to release the seatback,
then tilt the seatback forward or
backward, as desired. Release the lever
to lock the seatback in place.
But don’t have a seatback reclined if
your vehicle is moving. L Sitting in a reclined position
motion
can be dangerous. Even if
you buckle up, your safety belts
can’t do their job when you’re
reclined like
this.
The shoulder belt can’t do its job
because it won’t be against your
body. Instead, it will be in front of
you. In a crash you could go into
;+ receiving neck or other injuries.
I Len your vehicle is in
I
ne lap belt can’t do its job either.
In a crash the belt could go up over
your abdomen.
The belt forces
would be there, not at your pelvic
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- )ones. This could cause
serious internal injuries.
For proper protection when the
vehicle is
in motion, have the
seatback upright. Then sit well
back
in the seat and wear your
safety belt properly.
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Head Restraints
Slide the head restraint up or down so
that the top of the restraint is closest to
the top
of your ears.
This position reduces the chance
of a
neck injury in a crash.
On some models, you can also adjust
the head restraint by tilting the pad
forward
or rearward.
1 Safety Belts:
They’re For Everyone
This part of the manual tells you how to
use safety belts properly. It also tells you
some things you should not do
with
safety belts. And it explains the
Supplemental Inflatable Restraint,
or
“air bag” system.
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Seats & Safety Eelts
Safety Belts: Zley ’re For
Everyone
(Cont.)
A L Don’t let anyone ride where
they can’t wear a safety belt
properly. If you are in a crash and
you’re not wearing a safety belt,
your injuries can be
much worse.
You can hit things inside the
vehicle or be ejected from it.
You
can be seriously injured or killed.
In the same crash, you might not
be
if you are buckled up. Always
%ten your safety belt, and check
at your passengers’ belts are
-_stened properly too. This
figure lights up when you turn the
key to
Run or Start when your safety
belt isn’t buckled, and you’ll hear a
chime, too. It’s the reminder to buckle
up. In many states and Canadian
provinces, the law says to wear safety
belts. Here’s why:
They work.
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You never know if you’ll be in a crash.
If you do have a crash,
you don’t know
if it will be a bad one.
A few crashes are very mild. In them,
you won’t get
hurt even if you’re not
buckled up. And some crashes can be
so
serious, like being hit by a train, that
even buckled
up a person wouldn’t
survive. But most crashes are in
between. In many
of them, people who
buckle up can survive and sometimes
walk away. Without belts they could be
badly hurt or killed.
After
25 years of safety belts in vehicles,
the facts are clear. In most crashes
buckling up does matter.
. . a lot!
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Why Safety Belfs Work
When you ride in or on anything, you
go as fast as it goes.
1. For example, if the bike is going
10 mph (16 kmlh), so is the child.
2. When the bike hits the block, it 3. Take the simplest ‘‘car.’ ’ Suppose
stops. But the child keeps going! it’s
just a seat on wheels.
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