1995 CADILLAC ELDORADO Owners Manual

Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Care of Your Cassette Tupe 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
SO hours of use. If you notice a reduction in sound quality, try a known
good cassette to see
if the tape or the tape player is at fault. If this other
cassette
has no improvement in sound quality, clean the tape player.
Cleaning may be done
with a scrubbing action, non-abrasive cleaning
cassette. This system uses a cleaning cassette
with pads which scrub the
tape head as the hubs
of the cleaner cassette turn. It is normal for the
cartridge to eject while cleaning. Insert the cassette at least three times
to
ensure thorough cleaning. A scrubbing action cleaning cassette is
available through your Cadillac dealership.
You may also choose
a non-scrubbing action, wet-type cleaner which uses
a cassette
with a fabric belt to clean the tape head. This type of cleaning
cassette
will not eject. It may not clean as thoroughly as the scrubbing type
cleaner.
Cassette tapes 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 their original cases or other
protective cases and away from direct sunlight and dust. If the surface
of a
disc is soiled, dampen a clean, soft cloth
in a mild, neutral detergent
solution and clean
it, wiping from the centcr to the edge.
Be sure never to touch the signal surface when handling discs. Pick up discs
by grasping the outer edges or the edge of the hole and the outer edge.
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Your power antenna will look its best and work well if it’s cleaned from
time to time.
To Clean the Antenna Mast
1. Turn on the ignition and radio to raise the antenna to full mast
2. Dampen a clean cloth with mineral spirits or an 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. Repeat if necessary.
extension.
and
off.
NOTICE:
Don’t lubricate the power antenna. Lubrication could damage it.
NOTICE:
Before entering an auromarrc car wasn, 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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YOUR DRIVING AND THE ROAD
Here you’ll find information about driving on different kinds of roads and
in varying weather conditions. We’ve also included many other useful tips
on driving.
DEFENSMY DRIVTNG
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 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.
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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 affects four things that anyone needs to drive
a vehicle:
0 Judgment
0 Muscular Coordination
0 Attentiveness
Police records show
that almost half of all motor vehicle-relatcd deaths
involve alcohol. In most cases, these deaths are the result of someone who
was drinking and driving. In recent years, some
18,000 annual motor
vehicle-related deaths have been associated
with the use of alcohol, with
more than 300,000 people injured.
Many adults
-- by some estimates, nearly half the adult
population
-- choose never to drink alcohol, so they never 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.
The Blood Alcohol Concentration (RAC) of someone who is drinking
depends upon four things:
How much alcohol consumed
0 The drinker’s body weight
0 The amount of food that is consumed before and during drinking
0 The length of time it has taken the drinker to consume the alcohol

Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 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 somewhat lower
BAC level.
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
U.S. 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
U.S. is 0.04 percent.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine The BAC will be over 0.10 percent after three to six drinks (in one hour).
Of course, as we’ve seen, it depcnds on how much alcohol is in the drinks,
and
how quickly the person drinks them.
But
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. All
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 of 0.06 percent
has doubled 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
greater; at
a level of 0.15 percent, the chance is twenty-five times greater!
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.
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.
I ’ CAUTION:
Drinking and then driving is very dangerous. Your reflexes,
perceptions, attentiveness and judgment
can be affected by even
a smatl amount of alcohol. You can have a serious -- or even
fatal 0- collision if you drive after drinking. Please don’t drink
and drive or ride with a driver who has been drinking. Ride
home in a cab; or if you’re with a group, designate a driver who
will not drink.
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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.
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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’sperception
time. Then you have to bring up your
foot and do it. That’s reaction time.
Average reaction time is about
314 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.
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