1994 CHEVROLET TRACKER Owners Manual

How to Use This Manual
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Here you'll find information
about the seats in your
Geo 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 & Restraint Systems
Seats and Seat Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Safety Belts: They're for Everyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Why Safety Belts Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . , , . . . . . 16
Here Are Questions Many People Ask about Safety Belts - and the Answers . . I8
Safety Belt Reminder Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
How to Wear Safety Belts Properly . . . . . . . , , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , , . . . . . . . . . 19
Children ......................................................... 26
Child Restraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . 27
LargerChildren ................................................... 32
Safety BeltExtender ............................................... 33
Checking Your Restraint Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Replacing Safety Belts after a Crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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Seats and Restraint Systems
Seats and Seat Controls
This section tells you about the seats -
how to adjust them, and also about
reclining front seatbacks, head restraints,
seatback latches, easy entry seats and the
folding rear seatback.
Front Seat
Move the lever under the front 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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Reclining Front Seatbacks
To adjust the seatback, lift the lever on the
Iuter side
of the seat. Release the lever to
ock
the seatback where you want it. Pull
1p on the lever, and the seat will go to its
Iriginal upright position. But don’t have
he seatback reclined
if your vehicle is
noving.
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Head Restraints
Head restraints are fixed on some
vehicles and adjustable on others. Slide
an adjustable 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 ofa neck injury
in a
crash.
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To raise or lower the restraint, push in the
release while you pull up or push down
on the restraint. Easy Entry Seats
The front seats of your vehicle make it
easy to get
in and out of the rear seat.
0 When you pull up on the recliner
release lever, the seatback will tilt
forward and the whole seat will slide
forward.
After someone gets into the rear seat
area, move the seatback to its original
position. Then move the seat rearward
until it locks.
0 To get out, pull the release handle on
the rear of the right front seat.
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Folding Rear Seat
The rear seat in your Geo folds to provide
more cargo space.
To fold the seat. lower the rear seatback
and then
flip the whole rear seat up
against
the front seats.
1. Swing the safety belt buckles forward
and down. Pull the knobs on both sides
of the
seatback.
If you have a split rear seat,
you can
fold half of the seat by pulling
only the knob on the side
you want to
fold.
3. Fold the seatback down.
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4. Unlock the bottom part of the seat.
On the one-piece rear seat, pull ou
On the split rear sear, lift the
the release
ring.
release lever on either seat.
5. Lift the bottom of the seat up and pus1
it toward the front of the vehicle.
i. Find the support bar on the bottom of
the seat. This bar keeps the rear seat
from unfolding.
’. Pull the inner end of the support off of
the seat bracket and swing it down.
’. Push the support bar into the floor
bracket.
Be sure the support bar is
secured.
‘0 unfold the seat:
ieep your hands, safety
belts and other
bjects away from where the seat
will
:st.
Pull the support bar out of the floor
bracket and swing
it up and toward the
bottom of the seat.
Push the support bar into the bracket
on the bottom
of the seat.
Slowly pull the seat down to
the floor.
The seat should latch into place. Pull
up
on the bottom of the seat to be sure
it is locked in position.
Pull the seatback
up and push it back.
Push and pull the
top of the seatback
to
be sure it is locked in place.
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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.
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luckle up. (See “Safety Belt Reminder
ight” in the Index.)
n many states and Canadian provinces,
he law says to wear safety belts. Here’s
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never know if you’ll be in a crash. If
rou do have a crash, you don’t know if it
vi11 be a bad one.
1 few crashes are mild, and some crashes
:an be
so serious that even buckled up
L person wouldn’t survive. But most
:rashes are in between.
In many of them,
Ieople who buckle up can survive and
lometimes walk away. Without belts they
:odd have been badly hurt or killed.
4fter more than
25 years of safety belts
n vehicles, the facts are clear. In most
:rashes buckling up does matter
. . . a lot!
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