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In moderate to severe frontal or near-frontal collisions, even belted
occupants can contact the steering wheel or the instrument panel.
The air
bag supplements the protection provided by safety belts. Air bags
distribute the force of the impact more evenly over the occupant’s upper
body, stopping the occupant more gradually. But air bags would not
provide protection in many types of collisions, including rollovers and
rear and side impacts, primarily because an occupant’s motion is not
toward the air bag. Air bags should never be regarded as anything more
than a supplement to safety belt protection
in moderate to severe frontal
and near-frontal collisions.
What will you see after an air bag inflation?
After the air bag has inflated, it will then quickly deflate. This occurs so
quickly that some people may not even realize that the air bag inflated.
Some components
of the air bag module in the steering wheel hub for the
driver’s air bag or the instrument panel for the passenger’s bag may be
hot for a short time, but the portion of the bag that comes into contact
with
you will not be hot to the touch. There will be small amounts of
smoke and dust coming from vents in the deflated air bags. The air bag
will
not impede the driver’s vision or ability to steer the vehicle, nor will it
hinder the occupants from exiting the vehicle.
In many crashes severe enough to inflate an air bag, windshields are
broken by vehicle deformation. Additional windshield breakage may
occur in vehicles with passenger air bags because the windshield acts as a
reaction surface for the inflating air bag.
The air bags are designed to inflate only once. After they inflate, you’ll
need some new parts for your air bag system.
If you don’t get them,
the air bag system won’t be there to help protect you in another crash.
A new system will include air bag modules and possibly other parts.
The service manual has information about the need to replace other
parts.
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Air bags affect how your Cadillac should be serviced. There are parts of
the air bag system in several places around your vehicle.
You don’t want
the system to inflate while someone is working on your vehicle. Your
Cadillac dealer and the
1994 Cadillac Service Manual have information
about servicing your vehicle and the air bag system. The air bag system
does not need regular maintenance.

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SAFETYBELT USE DURING PREGNANCY
Safety belts work for everyone, including pregnant women. Like all
occupants, they are more likely to be seriously injured
if they don’t wear
safety belts.
A pregnant woman should wear a lap-shoulder belt, and the lap portion
should be worn as low aspossible thr*oughout the-pregnancy.
The best way’to protect the fetus is to protect the mother. When a safety
belt is worn properly, it’s more likely that the fetus won’t be hurt in a
crash. For pregnant women, as for anyone, the key to making safety belts
effective is wearing them properly.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine To make the belt
shorter,
pull its free
end as shown until
the belt is snug.
Buckle, position and release it the same way as the lap part
of a
lap-shoulder belt.
If the belt isn’t long enough, see “Safety Belt Extender”
at the end
of this section. 7
Make sure the release button on the buckle is positioned so you would be
able to unbuckle the safety belt quickly
if you ever had to.
REAR SEAT PASSENGERS
It’s very important for rear seat passengers to buckle up! Accident
statistics show that unbelted people
in the rear seat are hurt more often
in crashes than those who are wearing safety belts.
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Rear passengers who aren’t safety belted can be thrown out of the vehicle
in a crash.
And they can strike others in the vehicle who are wearing
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CHILD RESTRAINTS ..
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Be sure to follow the instructions for the restraint. You may find these
instructions on the restraint itself or in a booklet, or both. These
restraints use the belt system in your vehicle, but the child also has to be
secured within the restraint to help reduce the chance of personal injury.
The instructions that come with the infant or child restraint
will show you
how to do that.
Mere to Put the Restraint
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they are restrained in
the rear rather than the front seat. We at General Motors therefore
recommend that
you put your child restraint in the rear seat. NEVER put
a rear-facing child restraint in the front passenger seat. Here’s why:
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Wherever you install it, be sure to secure the child restraint properly.
Keep in mind that an unsecured child restraint can move around in a
collision or sudden stop and injure people in the vehicle. Be sure to
properly secure any child restraint
in your vehicle
in it.
-- even when no child is
Top Strap
If your child restraint
has
a top strap, it
should be anchored.
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If you need to have an anchor installed, you can ask your Cadillac dealer
to put it
in for you. If you want to install an anchor yourself, your dealer
can tell you
how to do it.
For cars first sold in Canada, child restraints with a top strap must be
anchored according to Canadian Law.
Your dealer can obtain the hardware kit and install it for you, or you may
install it yourself using the instructions provided
in the kit.
Use the tether hardware kit available from the dealer. The hardware and
installation instructions were specifically designed for this vehicle.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Q: What if a child is wearing a lap-shoulder belt, but the child is so
small that the shoulder belt is very close to the child’s face or neck?
A: Move the child toward the center of the vehicle, but be sure that the
shoulder belt still is
on the child’s shoulder, so that in a crash the
child’s upper body would. have the restraint that belts provide.
If the
child
is so small that the shoulder belt is still very close to the child’s
face or neck, you might want to place the child in the center seat
position, the one that has
only a lap belt.
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3. Do the same thing to the other rear door lock.
The rear doors of your vehicle cannot be opened from the inside when
this feature
is in use.
When you want to open
a rear door when the security lock is on:
1. Unlock the door from the inside.
2. Then open the door from the outside.
To cancel the rear door lock:
1. Unlock the door from the inside and open the door from the outside.
2. Move the lever all the way down.
3. Do the same for the other rear door.
The rear door locks
will now work normally.
Automatic Door Locks
Just close your doors and turn on the ignition. Every time you move your
shift lever out of
‘‘Y (Park) all of the doors will lock. And, every time you
stop and move your shift lever into “P” (Park), your doors
will unlock. If
someone needs to get out while you’re not
in “P77 (Park), have that person
use the manual or power lock. When the door
is closed again, it will not
lock automatically. Just use the manual or power lock to lock the door
again.
You can also have this feature changed where the doors
will stay locked
when you shift back into “P” (Park), ask your dealership for details.
Leaving Your Whicle
If you are leaving the vehicle, set the locks from inside, get out and close
the door.
Central Door Unlocking System
Your vehicle may be equipped with this feature. When unlocking either
door, you can unlock the other doors
by holding the key in the turned
position for
a few seconds.