1994 CHEVROLET TRACKER Owners Manual

Comfort Controls and Audio Systems
Theft Deterrent Feature
The theft deterrent feature for the AMEM
stereo with cassette tape and compact disc
player can be used or ignored. If ignored,
the system plays normally. If it is used,
your system won’t be usable if it’s ever
stolen.
Setting Your Security Code
The instructions below tell you how to
enter a security code into the system. If
your vehicle loses battery power for any
reason, you must enter the security code
again before the system will turn on.
1. Write down any four-digit number and
keep it in a safe place.
2. Turn on the ignition switch to the
“ACC” or “ON’ position.
3. Turn the audio system off.
4. Press the “1” and “4” buttons together.
Hold them down until
“- - - -” shows
on the display.
You are now ready to enter your security
code. Don’t wait more than 15 seconds
between steps.
5. Press “4 SEEK b” and/or
“4 TUNE b” and “0000” will appear
on the display.
first digit of your code appears.
Release the button.
6. Press “SEEKI” and hold it until the
7. Press “SEEK b” and hold it until the
second digit of your code appears.
Release the button.
8. Press “TUNE 4” and hold it until the
third digit
of your code appears.
Release the button.
9. Press “TUNE b” and hold it until the
fourth digit of your code appears.
Release the button.
checked that the code you entered is
the one you wrote down. “rEP’ will
appear
in the display, which means
you need to repeat steps
5 through 9.
11. Press “AM-FM” again and the
display will now show
“SEC.”
1 p. Press “AM-FM’ after you have
How to Shut Off the Theft-Deterrent
Feature
If your radio is secured (“SEC” shows on
the display) and you wish to disable it,
enter your security code as follows,
pausing no more than
15 seconds between
steps:
1. Press the “1” and “4” buttons together.
Hold them down until
“SEC” shows
on the display. You are now ready to
enter your security code.
until the fist digit of your code
appears.
3. Press the “SEEK b” button and hold it
until the second digit
of your code
appears.
4. Press the “TUNE 4” button and hold
it until the third digit of your code
appears.
5. Press the “TUNE b” button and hold
it until the fourth digit
of your code
appears.
checked that the code you entered
matches the one you wrote down.
display.
2. Press the “SEEKI” button and hold it
6. Press “AM-F’”’ after you have
LL ---- ” should now appear in the
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If the code is correct. the radio will
operate. If the code
is wrong, “Err” will
appear
in the display.
To Unlock the System After a Power
Loss
If power is disrupted to the radio while in
the ”SEC” mode, the unit will not work
and
”LOC” will show on the display
whenever the ignition is on. To unlock the
unit:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Press “4 SEEK b“ and/or
‘‘4 TUNE b” and “0000” will appear
on the display.
Press the
“SEEK 4“ button and hold it
until the first digit of your code
appears.
Press the
“SEEK b‘* button and hold it
until the second digit of your code
appears.
Press the
“TUNE 4’‘ button and hold
it until the third digit of your code
appears.
Press the
“TUNE b” button and hold
it until the fourth digit of your code
appears.
Press “AM-FM” after you have
checked that the code matches
the one
you wrote down. Now “SEC” will
appear on
the display.
Understanding Radio Reception
FM Stereo
FM stereo will give you rhe best sound.
But
FM signals will reach only about IO
to 40 miles ( 16 to 65 ktn). And, tall
buildings or hills can interfere with
FM
signals, causing the sound to come and
go-
A 1LI
The range for most AM stations is greater
than for
FM, especially at night. The
longer range, however, can cause stations
to interfere with each other. AM can pick
up noise from things like storms and
power lines.
Try reducing the treble to
reduce this noise if you ever get it.
Care of Your Cassette Tape
Player
A tape player that is not cleaned regularly
can cause reduced sound quality, ruined
cassettes, or a damaged mechanism.
Cassette tapes should be stored
in their
cases away from contaminants, direct
sunlight.
and extreme heat. If they aren’t.
they may not operate properly or cause
failure of the tape player.
Your tape player should
be cleaned
regularly each month or after every
I5
hours of use. If you notice a reduction in
sound quality. try a known good cassette
lo see if‘ the tape or the tape player is at
f‘ault. If this other cassette has no
improvement
in sound quality. clean the
tape player.
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Clean your tape player with a
wiping-action, non-abrasive cleaning
cassette, and
follow the directions
provided
with it.
Cassettes are subject to wear and the
sound quality may degrade over time.
Always make sure that the cassette tape is
in good condition before you have your
tape player serviced.
Care of Your Compact Discs
Handle discs carefully. Store them in thei
original cases or other protective cases
and away from direct sunlight and dust.
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the surface of a disc is soiled, dampen a
clean, soft cloth
in a mild, neutral
detergent solution and clean
it, wiping
from the center to the edge.
Be sure never to touch the signal surface
when handling discs. Pick up discs
by
the hole and the outer edge.
c grasping the outer edges or the edge of
InteQna
Jse the knob on the end of the antenna to
aise the antenna or to push
it back down.
:eep the antenna mast clean
for good
erformance.
dways lower the antenna before entering
car wash. If you have the convertible
~p, also lower the antenna before
:moving or installing the top.
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Here YOU'II find information
about driving on different kinds
of roads and in varying weather
conditions
. We've also included
many other useful tips on
driving
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Defensive Driving . .
Drunken Driving ...
Part 4
Your Driving and the Road
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Control of a Vehicle ............................................... 102
Driving Guidelines ................................................ 107
Off-Road Driving with Your GL'O Four-wheel Drive Vehicle ............... 108
DrivingatNight .................................................. 116
Driving in the Rain ................................................ 117
City Driving ..................................................... 119
Freeway Driving ................................................. 120
Hill and Mountain Roads ........................................... 121
Winter Driving ................................................... 122
Towin~aTrL?iler .................................................. 125
Recreational Vehicle Towing ........................................ 129
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Your Driving and the Road
Defensive Driving
The best advice anyone can give about
driving is: Drive defensively.
Please start with a very important safety
device
in your Geo: Buckle up. (See
“Safety Belts”
in the Index.)
Defensive driving really means “be ready
for anything.” On city streets, rural roads,
or freeways,
it means “always expect the
unexpected.”
Assume that pedestrians or other drivers
are going to be careless and make
mistakes. Anticipate what they might do.
Be ready for their mistakes.
Rear-end
collisions are about the most
preventable of accidents. Yet they are
common. Allow enough following
distance.
It’s the best defensive driving
maneuver,
in both city and rural driving.
You never know when the vehicle
in front
of you is going to brake or turn suddenly.
Drunken Driving
Death and injury associated with drinking
and driving is a national tragedy. It‘s the
number one contributor
to the highway
death
toll, claiming thousands of victims
every year. Alcohol takes away three
things that anyone needs to drive a
vehicle:
0 Judgment
0 Muscular Coordination
Vision
Police records show that almost half of
all motor vehicle-related deaths involve
alcohol
- a driver, a passenger or
someone else, such as a pedestrian, had
been drinking.
In most cases, these
deaths are the result of someone who
was drinking and driving. About
20,000
motor vehicle-related deaths occur’each
year because of alcohol, and thousands
of people are injured.
Just how much alcohol is too much ifa
person plans to drive‘? Ideally, no one
should drink alcohol and then drive.
But
if one does, then what’s “too much”‘? It
:an be a lot less than many might think.
Although
it depends on each person and
situation, here is some general
information on
the problem. The
Blood Alcohol Content (BAC j of
someone who is drinking depends upon
four things:
How much alcohol is
in the drink.
The drinker’s body weight.
The amount of food that is consumed
before and during drinking.
The length of time
it has taken the
drinker to consume the alcohol.
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According to the American Medical
Association,
a 180-pound (82 kg) person
who drinks three 12-ounce (355 ml)
bottles
of beer in an hour will end up with
a BAC of about 0.06 percent. The person
would reach the same BAC by drinking
three 4-ounce (120 ml) glasses of wine or
three mixed drinks if each had
1 - 1/2
ounces (45 ml)
of a liquor like whiskey,
gin or vodka.
It’s
the amount of alcohol that counts. For
example,
if the same person drank three
double martinis
(3 ounces or 90 ml of
liquor each) within an hour, the person‘s
BAC would be close
to 0.12 percent. A
person who consumes food just before
or
during drinking will have a slightly lower
BAC level.
DRINKING THAT Will
IN THE TIME SHOWN
RESULT IN A BAC OF .05%
1 HOURS
’ HOURS
HOUR
100 120 la0 160 160 200 220 240
BODY WEIGHT IN POUNDS
The law in most U.S. states sets the legal
limit at
a BAC of 0.10 percent. In Canada
the limit is 0.08 percent, and
in some
other countries it’s lower than that. The
BAC will be over 0.10 percent after three
to six drinks (in one hour). Of course, as
we’ve seen.
it depends on how much
alcohol is
in the drinks, and how quickly
the person drinks them. But it’s very important
to keep
in mind
that
the ability to drive is affected well
below a RAC of
0.10 percent. Research
shows that the driving skills
of many
people are impaired at a BAC
approaching 0.05 percent, and that the
effects are worse at night.
All drivers are
impaired at BAC levels above 0.05
percent. Statistics show that the chance
of
being in an accident increases sharply for
drivers who have a BAC
of 0.05 percent
or above.
A driver with a BAC level of
0.06 percent (three beers in one hour for a
180-pound or 82 kg person) has doubled
his
or her chance of having an accident.
At a BAC level of 0.10 percent, the
chance of that driver having an accident
is
six times greater; at a level of 0.15
percent, the chances are twenty-five times
greater! And, the body takes about
an
hour to rid itself of the alcohol in one
drink. No amount of coffee or number of
cold showers will speed that up.
‘‘I’ll be careful” isn’t the right answer.
What
if there’s an emergency, a need to
take sudden action, as when
a child darts
into the street? A person with
a higher
BAC might not be able
to react quickly
enough
to avoid the collision.
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Your Driving and the Road
There’s something else about drinking
and driving that many people don’t know.
Medical research shows that alcohol
in a
person’s system can make crash injuries
worse. That’s especially true for brain,
spinal cord and heart injuries. That means
that if anyone who has been drinking
-
driver or passenger - is in a crash, the
chance of being killed or permanently
disabled is higher than if that person had
not been drinking. And we’ve already
seen that the chance of a crash itself is
higher for drinking drivers.
Control of a Vehicle
You have three systems that make your
vehicle go where you want it to go. They
are the brakes, the steering and the
accelerator. All three systems have to
do
their work at the places where the tires
meet the road.
Sometimes, as when you’re driving on
snow or ice, it’s easy to ask more
of those
control systems than the tires and road
can provide. That means you can lose
control
of your vehicle.
Braking
Braking action involves perception time
and reaction time.
First, you have to decide to push on the
brake pedal. That’s perception
time. Then
you have to bring
up your foot and do it.
That’s reaction
time.
Average reaction time is about 3/4 of a
second. But that’s only an average. It
might be less with one driver and as long
as two or three seconds or more with
another. Age, physical condition,
alertness, coordination, and eyesight all
play a part.
So do alcohol, drugs and
frustration. But even in
3/4 of a second, a
vehicle moving at
60 mph (100 km/h)
travels
66 feet (20 m). That could be a lot
of distance in an emergency,
so keeping
enough space between your vehicle and
others is important.
And,
of course, actual stopping distances
vary greatly with the surface of the road
(whether it’s pavement or gravel); the
condition of
the road (wet, dry, icy); tire
tread; and the condition of your brakes.
Avoid needless heavy braking. Some
people drive in spurts
- heavy
acceleration followed by heavy braking
- rather than keeping pace with traffic.
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This is a mistake. Your brakes may not
have time
to cool between hard stops.
Your brakes will wear
out much faster if
you do a lot of heavy braking. If you keep
pace with
the traffic and allow realistic
following distances,
you will eliminate a
lot of unnecessary braking. That means
better braking and longer brake life.
If your engine ever stops while you’re
driving, brake normally but don’t pump
your brakes. If you do, the pedal may get
harder to push down.
If your engine stops,
you will still have some power brake
assist.
But you will use it when you brake.
Once
the power assist is used up, ir may
take longer to stop and the brake pedal
will be harder to push.
Anti-Lock Brakes (ABS)
Your vehicle has an advanced electronic
braking system that can help you keep
it
under control.
Here‘s
how anti-lock works. Let’s say the
road is wet. You‘re driving safely.
Suddenly an animal jumps out
in front of
you.
You slam on the brakes. Here’s what
happens
with ABS.
A computer senses that the rear wheels
are slowing down.
If one of the rear
wheels
is about to stop rolling, the
computer will work the brakes at the rear
wheels.
It is programmed to make the
most of available tire and road conditions.
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As you brake, your computer keeps
receiving updates
on rear wheel speed and
controls braking pressure accordingly.
Remember: Anti-lock doesn‘t change the
time you need
to get your foot up to the
brake pedal.
If you get too close to the
vehicle in front of you, you won’t have
time to apply your brakes
if that vehicle
suddenly
slows or stops. Always leave
enough room up ahead to stop. even
though you have anti-lock brakes.
To Use Anti-Lock:
Use rear-wheel anti-lock like regular
brakes. You may feel the brakes vibrate,
or
you may notice some noise outside
your vehicle, but
this is normal. Let
anti-lock work for
you, but remember:
Your front wheels
can still stop rolling. If
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