1997 OLDSMOBILE BRAVADA Owners Manual

a 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.
1-2 Seats and Controls
1-24 Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy
1-2 Manual Passenger’s
Seat 1-20 Questions and
Answers About Air Bags
1-2 Power Driver’s Seat
1-44 How to Obtain a Safety Belt Extender 1- 10 Questions Many People Ask About 1-35 Child Restraint
Top Straps
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Why Safety Belts Work
in Child Restraints 1-5 Rear Seats 1-34 Important Information
for Buckling Children
1-3 Reclining Front Seatbacks 1-34
How to Use Child Restraints
Safety Belts 1-44 Checking Your Restraint Systems
1-1 1 How to Wear Safety Belts Properly 1-45 Replacing Parts After a Crash
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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 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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Power Lumbar Control
The control is on the side of the driver's or
passenger's seat.
Press and hold the front of the control
~~ntil you have the
desired lumbar support. To decrease lumbar support,
press the rear
of the control.
Reclining Front Seatbacks
To ad-just the seatback, lift the lever OKI 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.
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.
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Head Restraints
Slide the head restraint 1:p 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.
Rear Seats
Your vehicle has a folding rear seat which lets you fold
the seatbacks down for more cargo space.
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.
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Safety Belts: They’re for Everyone
This part of the rnanual 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.
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.
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It is extremely dangerous to ride in a cargo area,
inside
or outside of’ a vehicle. In a collision,
people riding in these areas are more likely to be
seriously injured or killed. Do not allow people to
ride in any area of your vehicle that is not
equipped with seats and safety belts. Be sure
everyone in your vehicle is in
a seat and using a
safety belt properly.
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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:
The!! 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!
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.
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Put someone on it. Get it up to speed. Then stop the vehicle. The rider
doesn't stop.
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