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Remote Entry System (If equipped)
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If your vehicle has the remote entry system, you can lock or
unlock the vehicle doors and liftgate without using a key. The
remote also has a personal alarm feature. The buttons for the
system are located on the two hand held transmitters that came
with your vehicle.
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The system will work with up to four transmitters. Your vehicle
came with two transmitters. Additional transmitters can be
ordered from your dealer.
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The remote entry features only operate with the ignition in the
OFF position.
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The remote entry transmitter
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Unlocking the doors with the remote entry system
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To unlock the driver's door, press the UNLOCK button.
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To unlock the other doors and liftgate, press the UNLOCK
button a second time, within five seconds after the first
UNLOCK.
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Locking the doors with the remote entry system
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To lock all the doors and liftgate, press the LOCK button. This
will also arm the factory installed Anti-Theft system.
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If you would like a signal that the doors are being locked, press
the LOCK button again within five seconds. If all doors, liftgate
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162and the liftgate window are completely closed, the doors and
liftgate will lock again, the horn will chirp and the external
lamps will flash. If a door, liftgate or the liftgate window is
open or ajar, the horn will give two short chirps warning you
that a door or the liftgate is open.
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Remote entry personal alarm
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If you wish to activate the remote entry system personal alarm,
press the PANIC button. This will honk the horn and flash the
lights for approximately 2 minutes 45 seconds. You can turn it
off by pressing the PANIC button again from the transmitter or
by turning the ignition to the ON or ACCESSORY position.
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When you use the remote entry UNLOCK or PANIC buttons,
the illuminated entry system turns on the vehicle's interior
lights for 25 seconds. You can turn these lights off with the
remote entry LOCK button or by turning the ignition to the ON
or ACCESSORY position.
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Arming and Disarming the Alarm System with Remote
Entry
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Your Remote Entry System will automatically arm the factory
installed Anti-Theft System when the doors are locked, and
automatically disarm it when the doors are unlocked. The
remote will also reset the anti-theft alarm (when the driver's
door is unlocked or the PANIC button is pressed on a
programmed remote entry transmitter) if it was triggered.
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This will prevent draining of the battery if these lights have
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This will prevent draining of the battery if these lights have
been left on inadvertently or if a door or the liftgate is not
completely closed. Battery voltage to these lamps will be
restored when the remote entry transmitter is used, any door is
opened, the liftgate is opened, or the ignition key is turned ON
again.
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Anti-Theft Alarm System (If equipped)
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When armed, this system helps protect your vehicle against
break-ins or theft.
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When an unauthorized entry occurs, the system triggers and
will:
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flash the headlamps, parking lamps, and theft indicator lamp
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honk the horn
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disable the starting circuit to prevent the vehicle from being
started
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Arming the System
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The system is ready to arm any time the ignition switch is
turned OFF and the alarm is not triggered or sounding. Any of
the following events will prearm the anti-theft system:
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Pressing the remote entry transmitter LOCK button to lock
the doors (with the doors open or closed),
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Pressing the 7/8 and 9/0 buttons on the keyless entry
keypad at the same time to lock the doors (with the doors
open or closed), or
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Opening a door and pressing the power door lock button to
lock the doors.
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If a door, liftgate or liftgate window is open, the anti-theft
system is prearmed and waiting for all doors to close. The
THEFT indicator in the instrument panel will light continuously
while the system is prearmed.
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For an alternative memory position, place seat in the second
desired position, depress the ªSETº button, then press the
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For an alternative memory position, place seat in the second
desired position, depress the ªSETº button, then press the
ª2º button within 5 seconds or until the light goes off.
[FV46960( X)03/94]3.
For the third memory position, move the seat to the desired
position, depress the ªSETº button, then press the ª1º and
ª2º buttons at the same time within 5 seconds or until the
light goes off.
[FV46970( X)03/94]
To use your memory switch either in Park or Neutral after the
settings are complete, press either the ª1º, ª2º, or ª1 and 2
simultaneouslyº and the seat will move to that position.
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Using the Power Lumbar Support and Side Bolsters
(If equipped)
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Inflating the lumbar support and side bolsters
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If your vehicle is equipped with this option you can
inflate/deflate the lumbar support pad in the seat back and
inflate/deflate the side bolster pads.
[FV47900(ALL)10/94]
To inflate the bolster pads, push the ª+º end of the front rocker
switch. To deflate the bolster pads, push the ªsº end of the
switch.
[FV48000(ALL)10/94]
To inflate the lumbar support pad, push the ª+º end of the rear
rocker switch. To deflate the lumbar support pad, push the ªsº
end of the switch.
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Luxury Audio System
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Using the Controls on Your New Radio
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How to turn the radio on and off
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Using the Controls on Your New Radio
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How to turn the radio on and off
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Using the Controls on Your New Radio
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How to turn the radio on and off
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Press the “VOL/PUSH ON” knob to turn the radio on. Press
again to turn it off.
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How to adjust the volume
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Turn the “VOL/PUSH ON” knob clockwise to increase the
volume and counterclockwise to decrease the volume.
[AS01200( X)09/95]
NOTE: If the volume level is set above a certain listening
level when the ignition switch is turned off, when the
ignition switch is turned back on, the volume will
come back to a “nominal” listening level. However, if
the radio power is turned off (with the “VOL/PUSH
ON” button) and the volume is at a low level, the
volume will remain in the position it was set at when
radio power is switched back on.
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Selecting the AM or FM frequency band
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Push the “AM/FM” button to select the desired frequency band.
Pushing the “AM/FM” button causes the frequency band to
switch from “AM” to “FM1” to “FM2” to “AM”, changing one
band to the next each time the button is pressed. These
functions are used with the station memory buttons described
underHow to tune radio stations.
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How to tune radio stations
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How to tune radio stations
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How to tune radio stations
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There are four ways for you to tune in a particular station. You
can use the“TUNE”,“SEEK”,“SCAN”or memory buttons.
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Using the“TUNE”function
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You can change the frequency up or down one increment at
a time by pressing and releasing either the left (
b) or right
(
a) side of the“TUNE”or“TUNE DISCS”button. To
change frequencies quickly, press and hold down either the
right or left side of the button.
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Manual tuning adjusts your radio to any allowable broadcast
frequency, whether or not a station is present on that
frequency. (SeeAll About Radio Frequenciesin this section.)
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Using the“SEEK”function
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Press the right (
a) side of the“SEEK”button to select the
next listenable station up the frequency band. Press the left
(
b) side of the button to select the next listenable station
down the frequency band. By holding the button down,
listenable stations can be passed over to reach the desired
station.
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Using the“SCAN”function
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Pressing the“SCAN”button will begin the scan mode up
the frequency band, stopping on each listenable station for
approximately five seconds.
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To stop the scan mode on the presently sampled station,
press the“SCAN”button again.
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Setting the station MEMORY PRESET buttons
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Your radio is equipped with 6 station memory buttons.
These buttons can be used to select up to 6 preset AM
stations and 12 FM stations (6 in FM1 and 6 in FM2)
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Press one of the memory buttons and hold until the sound
returns and the lamp above the memory button lights up.
That memory button is now set.
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Follow the above steps for each memory preset button.
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Using the Automatic Memory Store feature
(“AUTOSET”)
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If the memory buttons have been set, either by using the Auto
Memory Load feature or if you have set them manually, the
system is prepared to let you use a convenient feature called
Automatic Memory Store.
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With Auto Memory Store, you can continually set strong
stations into your memory buttons without losing your
originally set stations. Your radio will automatically set your
memory buttons to the strong local stations.
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Activate Auto Memory Store by pushing the“AUTOSET”
button once. Your radio will set the first six strong stations of
the band you are in (AM, FM1 or FM2) into the memory
buttons. The display will flash“AUTO”and display the autoset
icon“A”while the stations are being set in the memory
buttons.
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NOTE: If there are less than six strong stations in the
frequency band, the remaining unfilled buttons will
store the last strong station detected on the band.
After all stations have been filled, the radio will begin
playing the station stored on memory button 1.
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To deactivate the Auto Memory Store mode and return to the
manually-set memory button stations, simply push the
“AUTOSET”button. Display will show“AUTO”then“OFF”.
The next time Auto Memory Store is activated on that band, the
radio will store the next set of six strong stations.
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How to turn the rear seat radio controls on and off
[AS07727( X)09/94]
Press memory preset buttons“3”and“5”simultaneously on the
face of your radio to turn the rear seat radio controls on. A
headphone symbol (j) will appear in the display when the
rear seat controls are on. Press“3”and“5”simultaneously
again to turn rear seat controls off.
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How to adjust the volume
[AS07735( X)09/94]
Press the right (
a) side of the“VOLUME”rocker switch to
increase volume, and push the left (
b) side to decrease the
volume of the rear speakers.
[AS07740( X)09/95]
NOTE: Rear seat volume control can be set no higher than
current radio setting unless speakers are turned off.
See note underHow to turn speakers on and off.
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Setting the AM or FM frequency band
[AS07750( X)09/94]
Push the“AM/FM”button to change the frequency band.
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