1995 CADILLAC DEVILLE Owners Manual

Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Power Antenna Mast Care
To Clean the Antenna Mast
1. Turn on the ignition and radio to raise the alltenna to full mast
extension.
2. Dampen a clcan cloth with mineral spirits or equivalent solvent.
3. Wipe the cloth over the mast sections, removing any dirt.
4. Wipe dry with a clean cloth before retracting.
5. Make the antenna go up and down by turning the radio or ignition on
6. Then repeat if necessary.
and off.
NOTICE:
Don't lubricate the power antenna. Lubrication could damage
it.
NOTICE:
Before entering an automatic car wash, turn off your radio to
make the power antenna
go down. This will prevent the mast
from possibly getting damaged. If the antenna does not go down
when
you turn the radio off, it may be damaged or need to be
cleaned. In either case, lower the antenna by hand by carefully
pressing the antenna down.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine YOUR DRIVING AND THE ROAD
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Here you’ll find information about driving on different kinds of roads and
in varying wcather conditions. We’ve also included many other useful tips
on driving.
DEFENSZW DRDTNG
The best advice anyone can give about driving is: Drive defensively.
Please start with
a very important safety device in your Cadillac: Buckle
up. (See “Safety Belts” in the Index.)
Defensive driving really means “be ready
for anvthing.” On city streets,
rural roads, or freeways,
it means “always expect the unexpected.”
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Assume that pedestrians or other drivers arc 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 cnough 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 DRIWNG
Death and injury associated with drinking and driving is a national
tragedy.
It's the numbcr one contributor to the highway death toll,
claiming thousands
of victims every year.
Alcohol affects four things that anyone needs to drive
a vehicle:
Judgment
0 Muscular Coordination
0 Vision
Attentiveness
Police records show that almost
half of all motor vehicle-rclated dcaths
involve alcohol. In most
cases. these deaths are the result of somonc who
was drinking and driving. In recent years, sum(: 18.000 annual motor
vehiclerelated deaths have been associated
with the L~SC of ;11cohol, with
more than 300,000 people injurcd.
Many
ad~~lts -- by some cstimatcs, ncarly half the dult
population -- choose never to drink alcohol, so they ncver drive
after drinking. For persons under 21, it's against the law in every U.S.
state to drink alcohol. There are good medical, psychological and
developmental reasons for these laws.
The obvious way to solve this highway safety problem is for people never
to drink alcohol and then drive. But what if people do? How much is "too
much'' if the driver plans to drive? It's a lot less than many might think.
Although it depends on each person and situation. here is some general
information
on the problem.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine The Bloocl Alcohol Concentration (BAC) of someone who is drinking
depends upon four things:
How much alcohol consunlcd
e The drinker’s body weigh1
The amount of food that is consumed before and during drinking
The length c. of time it has taken the drinker to coIwnx the alcohol
According
to the American Medical Association. a 180-pound (82 kg)
person who drinks threc 12-ouncc (355 1111) bottlcs 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 1111) glasses of wine or three
mixed drinks if each had 1- 112 ounces (45 ml) of a liquor like whiskey, gin
or vodka.
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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
consumcs food just before or during drinking will have a somewhat lower
BAC level.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine There is a gender difference, too. Women generally have a lower relative
percentage
of body water than men. Since alcohol is carried in body
water, this means that a woman generally
will reach a higher BAC level
than a man of her same
body weight when each has the same number of
drinks.
The
law in many US. states sets the legal limit at a BAC of 0.10 percent.
In a growing number of U.S. states, and throughout Canada, the limit is
0.08 percent. In some other countries it’s even lower. The BAC limit for
all commercial drivers in the US. is 0.04 percent.
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.
Hut the ability to drive is affected well below a BAC 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. Ail
drivers are impaired at BAC levels above 0.05 percent. Statistics show that
the chance of being
in a collision increases sharply for drivers who have a
BAC of 0.05 percent or above. A driver with a BAC level of0.06 percent
has doubied his or her chance of having
a collision. At a BAC level of
0.10 percent, the chance of this driver having a collision is twelve times
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
even a moderate BAC might not be able to react quickly enough to avoid
the collision.
b oreater: at a level of 0.15 percent, the chance is twenty-five times greater!
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, especially injuries to the brain, spinal cord or heart.
This means that when anyone
who has been drinking -- driver or
passenger
-- is in a crash, that person‘s chance of being killed or
permanently disabled is higher than if the person had not been drinking.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine CONTROL OF A WHICLE
You have three systenx that make your vehicle go where you want it to go.
They are the brakes, thc steering and the accelerator. All three systems
have to do their work at thc 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.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Braking action involves yereeption time and recrction time.
First, you have, to decide to push on the brake pedal. That’sperceptioll
time. Then you have to bring up your foot and do it. That’s rerrction time.
Average rerzcfiorz
the 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
34 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. 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, it may take
longer
to stop and the brake pedal will be harder to push.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 4nti-Lock Brakes (ABS)
Your Cadillac has an advanced electronic braking system that will help
)revent a braking skid.
This light on the
instrunlent panel will
come on briefiy when
you start your vehicle.
LOCK (!I
ANTI-
When you start your vshiclc and begin to drive away, you may hear a
momentaw motor or cliclcing noise. And you may even notic; that your
brake pedal nloves a little while this is going on. This is the ABS system
testing itself. If there‘s a problem with the anti-lock brake system, the
anti-lock brake
system warning light will stay on.
See “Anti-Lock Brake System Warning Light” in the Index.
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.
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