1993 PONTIAC GRAND-PRIX seats

BPontiac Grand Prix 1993 Owner’s Manual
Table of Contents
Introduction How to Use this Manual .............................. 3
Part 1 Seats & Safety Belts ................................... 9
Part 2 Features & Controls ................................. 43
Part 3 Comfort Controls & Audio Systems ...... 115
Part 4 Your Driving and the Road .................... 137
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part B
Problems on the Road ........................... 183
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Service & Appearance Care .................. 211
Maintenance Schedule .......................... 287
Customer Assistance Information ........ 309
Index ....................................................... 325
Includes “Reporting Safety Defects” on page 314
Service Station Information .......... Last Page
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How to Use this Manual
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Using Your 1993 Pontiac Owner’s
Manual
Many people read their owner’s manual
from beginning to end when they first
receive their new vehicle. This will help
you learn about the features and
controls for your vehicle. In this manual,
you’ll find that pictures and words work
together to explain things quicltly.
There are nine parts with color-tabbed pages in this manual. Each part begins
with a brief list of contents,
so you can
usually tell at a glance if that part
contains the information you want.
You can bend the manual slightly to
reveal the color tabs that help you find a
part.
Part 1: Seats & Safety Belts
This part tells you how to use your seat:
and safety belts properly.
Part 2: Features 8z Controls
This part explains how to start and
operate your Pontiac.
Part 3: Comfort Controls & Audio
Systems
This part tells you how to adjust the
ventilation
and comfort controls and
how to operate your audio system.
Part 4: Your Driving and the Road
Here you’ll find helpful information anc
tips about the road and how to drive
under different conditions.
Part 5: Problems on the Road
This part tells you what to do if you
have a problem while driving, such as a
flat tire or engine overheating.
Part 6: Service & Appearance Care
Here the manual tells you how to keep
your Pontiac running properly and
looking good.
Part 7: Maintenance Schedule
This part tells you when to perform
vehicle maintenance and what fluids
and lubricants to use.
Part 8: Customer Assistance
Information
This part tells you how to contact
Pontiac for assistance and how
to get
service publications. It also gives you
information on
Reporting Safety
Defects.
Part 9: Index
Here’s an alphabetical listing of almost
every subject in this manual.
You can
use it to quicltly find something
you
want to read.
Service Station Information
This is a quick reference of service
information.
You can find it on the last
page of this 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 ........................................................................\
.................... 10
Safety Belts ........................................................................\
....................................... 14
How to Wear Safety Belts Properly ........................................................................\
.. 19
Driver Posltlon
safety Belt Use During Pregnancy
........................................................................\
.... 23
Right Front Passenger Position
........................................................................\
......... 24
Center Passenger Posltlon
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................ -24
Rear Seat Passengers ........................................................................\
......................... 25
Children
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.............................................. 28
Smaller Children and Babies
........................................................................\
............. 28
Child Restraints
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................................. 29
Larger Children
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.................................. 37
Safety Belt Extender ........................................................................\
.......................... 39
Replacing Safety Belts After a Crash
........................................................................\
40
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................................... 20
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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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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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Seats & Safety 6elts
Why Safety Belts Work
When you ride in or on anything, you
1. For example, if the bike is going
as fast as it goes.
10 mph (16 km/h), so is the child.
2. When the bike hits the block, it
stops. But the child keeps going! 3. Take the simplest “car.” Suppose
it’s just a seat on wheels.
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Seats 4S Safety 6eIts
Here Are Questions Many People
Ask About Safety 8elts-
and the Answers
Q: Won’t I be trapped in the vehicle
after an accident if I’m wearing a safety belt?
wearing a safety belt or not. But you
can easily unbuckle a safety belt,
even if you’re upside down. And
your chance of being conscious
during and after an accident,
so you
can unbuckle and get out, is much
greater if you are belted.
A: You could be-whether you’re
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Q: Why don’t they just put in air bags
so people won’t have to wear safety
belts?
Inflatable Restraint systems, are in
some vehicles today and will be in
more
of them in the future. But they
are supplemental systems only-so
they work
with safety belts, not
instead
of them. Every “air bag”
system ever offered for sale has
required the use of safety belts. Even
if you’re in
a vehicle that has “air
bags,” you still have
to buckle up to
get the most protection. That’s true
not only in frontal collisions, but
especially in side and other
collisions.
A: “Air bags,” or Supplemental
Q: If I’m a good mver, and I never
drive
far from home, why should I
wear safety belts?
A: You may be an excellent driver, but
if you’re in an accident-even one
that isn’t your fault-you and your
passengers can be hurt. Being
a good
driver doesn’t protect
you from
things beyond your control, such as
bad drivers.
Most accidents occur within
25
miles (40 km) of home. And the
greatest number
of serious injuries
and deaths occur at speeds of less
than
40 mph (65 W).
Safety belts are for everyone.
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