1993 PONTIAC GRAND-PRIX Owners Manual

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Part 1
Here YOU'II find information about
the seats in your Pontiac and
how to
use your safety belts properly
. You
can also learn about some things
you should not
do with safety belts .
Seats & Safety 6elts
Seats and Seat Controls ........................................................................\
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Safety Belts ........................................................................\
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How to Wear Safety Belts Properly ........................................................................\
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Driver Posltlon
safety Belt Use During Pregnancy
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Right Front Passenger Position
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Center Passenger Posltlon
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Rear Seat Passengers ........................................................................\
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Children
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Smaller Children and Babies
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Child Restraints
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Larger Children
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Safety Belt Extender ........................................................................\
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Replacing Safety Belts After a Crash
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Seats & Safety 6eIts
Se& ad Seat Cuntrok
This section tells you about the seats-
how
to adjust them, and also about
reclining seatbaclrs and head restraints.
Manual Front Seat
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You can lose control of the
2 L 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.
Move the control handle under the
front
of the seat to unlock it. Slide the
seat
to where you want it. Then release
the
handle and try to move the seat
with your
body, fo make sure the seat is
locked into place.
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There are Seven Adjustment Switches:
Power Seat (OPTION)
To Adjust the Six-Way Power Seat:
Front Control
(A): Raise the front of
the seat by holding the switch up. Hold
the switch down to lower the front of
the seat.
Center Control (B): Move the seat
forward or back by holding the control
to the front or back. Raise or lower the
seat by holding the control up or down.
Rear Control (C) : Raise the rear of the
seat by holding the switch up. Hold the
switch down to lower the rear of the
seat.
Adjustable Supports (OPTION)
The adjustable support control allows
you to change the contour
of the driver
and passenger seats. It works
independently of the power seat
control. Adjust your seat for proper
position first, then adjust the contour.
To adjust the driver’s seat, move the
selector switch to
DRIVER. To adjust
the passenger seat, move the selector
switch to
PASS. To lock controls, leave
the selector switch in the middle.
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Lumbar Supports: Press
the switch forward to
raise the area shown by
the solid arrow. Press the
switch rearward to lower.
Head Support: Press the
switch forward to move
the head restraint
forward. Press rearward
to move it back.
Thigh Supports: Press
the
LT switch forward to
raise the left thigh area.
Press the switch rearward
to lower.
Press the
RT switch
forward to raise the right
thigh area. Press the
switch rearward to lower.
Side Bolster Supports:
Press the switch forward
to narrow the outsides of
the seat. Press the switch
rearward
to widen.
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Eight-Way Power Seat With
Adjustable Supports (OPTION)
With this feature, you can adjust the
driver’s seat eight ways:
The seat-shaped controls
(A) adjust the
driver’s seat only. Move the controls in
the direction you want the driver’s seat
to move-up or down, forward or
rearward. In addition, move the
cushion-shaped control to move the
front or rear of the driver’s seat cushion
up or down. Move the seatback-shaped
control to move the driver’s seatback
up
or down.
You can also adjust both the passenger’s I
and the driver’s seat to support your
thighs and back.
Slide the upper right switch to
4 DRIVER or PASS b (Passenger) to
select the seat you want to adjust,
TO
lock controls, leave the selector switch
in the middle.
There are Six Adjustment Switches:
Lumbar Supports:
Press
the switch to raise or
lower the area shown
by
the arrow.
Seatback Recline: Press
the switch to raise or
lower the seatback.
Thigh Supports: Press
the
LT switch to raise or
lower the left thigh area.
Press the
RT switch to
raise
or lower the right
thigh area.
Reclining Front Seatbacks
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.
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CAUTION
Sitting in a reclined position when your vehicle is in mation can be
L dangerous. Even if you buckle up, your safety belts can’t do their job
mllGn you’re reclined like this.
The shoulder belt can’t do its job because it won’t be against ~LU- body.
Instead, it will be in front of you. In a crash you could go into it, receiving neck
or other injuries.
The 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 bones. 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.
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Seats & Safety Eelts
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Seatback Latches
In 2-door Pontiacs, the front seat folds
forward to let people get into the back
seat.
Your seatback will move back and forth
freely, unless you come to a sudden
stop. Then it will lock in place.
There’s one time the seatback may not
fold without some help from
you. That’s
if your vehicle is parked facing down a
fairly steep hill.
TQ fold a seatback forward, push the
seatback toward the rear as you
lift this
latch. Then the seatback will fold
forward. The latch must be down for
the seat to work properly.
4 Safety Belts:
They’ve For Everyone
This part of the manual tells you how to
use sakty belts properly. It also tells
you mme things you should not do with
s’afety belts .
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Don’t let anyone ride where I L
- 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 fasten
your safety belt, and check that
your passengers’ belts are fastened
properly too.
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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.
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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