1996 OLDSMOBILE BRAVADA Owners Manual

Section 1 Seats and Restraint Systems
Here you’ll find information about the seats in your
Oldsmobile and how to use your safety belts properly.
You can also learn about some things you should not do
with air bags and safety belts.
Seats and Seat Controls
This section tells you about the seats -- how to adjust
them, and fold them up and down.
Manual Passenger’s Seat
Move the lever under the
front
of the passenger’s seat
toward the driver’s door 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.
Power Driver’s Seat
The control pad is on the driver’s seat.
Use the front control to make the front of the seat move
up or down. To make the rear of the seat move up or
down, use the rear control. Use the center control to
move the whole seat
up, down, forward or backward.
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1 Rec 1g Front Seatback
The control is on the side of the driver’s or passenger’s seat.
Press and hold
the front of the control until you have the
desired lumbar support. To decrease lumbar support,
press the rear
of the control.
To adjust the seatback, lift the lever on the outer side of
the seat.
Release the lever to lock the seatback where
you
want it. Pull up on the lever and the seat will go to an
upright position.
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But don’t have a seatback reclined if your vehicle
is moving.
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‘Sitting in a reclined position when your vehicle is
in motion can be dangerous. Even if you buckle
up, your safety belts can’t do their job when
you’re reclined like this.
The shoulder belt can?t do its job because
it
won’t be against your body. Instead, it will be in
front of you. In
a crash you could go into it,
receiving neck or other injuries.
The lap belt can’t
do its job either. In a crash the
belt could go up over your abdomen. The belt
forces would be there, not
at your pelvic bones.
This could cause serious internal injuries.
For proper protection when the vehicle is in
motion, have the seatback upright. Then sit well
back in the seat and
wear your safety belt properly.
Head Restraints
Slide the 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
of a neck injury in a crash.
The head restraints tilt forward and rearward also.
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Rear Seats The rear seat release handles are in the upper center of
the rear of the seatbacks. Push back
on the seatbacks as
you pull up on the handles.
To raise the seatbacks, just lift up the seatbacks and push
until they lock in the upright position.
Push and pull
on the seatbacks to check that the latches
have locked in the upright position. If they haven’t, have
them fixed immediately.
Your vehicle has
a folding rear seat which lets you fold
the seatbacks down for more cargo space.
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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.
And it explains the Supplemental Inflatable Restraint
(SIR), or air bag system.
A CAUTION:
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Don’t let anyone ride where he or she can’t wear
a safety belt properly.
If you are in a crash and
you’re not wearing
a safety belt, your injuries
can be much worse. You can hit things inside the
vehicle or be ejected from it. You can be seriously
injured or killed.’In the same crash, you might
not be if you are buckled up. Always fasten your
safety belt, and check that your passengers’ belts
are fastened properly too.
Your vehicle has a light
that comes on as a reminder
to buckle
up. (See “Safety
Belt Reminder Light”
in
the Index.)
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In most states and Canadian provinces, the law says to
wear safety belts, Here’s why:
They work.
You never know if you’ll be in a crash. If you do have a
crash, you don’t know
if it will be a bad one.
A few crashes are mild, and some crashes can be so
serious that even buckled up a person wouldn’t survive.
But most crashes are in between. In many of them,
people who buckle
up can survive and sometimes walk
away. Without belts they could have been badly hurt
or killed.
After more than
25 years of safety belts in vehicles,
the facts are clear.
In most crashes buckling up does
matter
... a lot!
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Why Safety Belts Work
When you ride in or on anything, you go as fast as
it goes.
Take the simplest vehicle. Suppose it's just
a seat
on wheels. Put
someone
on it.
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Get it up to speed. Then stop the vehicle. The rider
doesn't stop. The
person keeps going until stopped by something.
In a real vehicle, it could be the windshield ...
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or the safety belts!
or the instrument panel ...
With safety belts, you slow down as the vehicle does.
You get more time to stop. You stop over more distance,
and
your strongest bones take the forces. That’s why
safety belts make such good sense.
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