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Seats and Restraint Systems
This section tells you how to use your seats and safety belts properly. It also explains the air bag system.
Features and Controls
This section explains how to start and operate your vehicle.
Comfort Controls and Audio Systems
This section tells you how to adjust the ventilation and comfort controls and how to operate your audio system.
Your Driving and the Road
Here you’ll find helpful information and tips about the road and how to drive under different conditions.
Problems on the Road
This section tells what to do if you have a problem while driving, such as a flat tire or overheated engine, etc.
Service and Appearance Care
Here the manual tells you how to keep your vehicle running properly and looking good.
Maintenance Schedule
This section tells you when to perform vehicle maintenance and what fluids and lubricants to use.
Customer Assistance Information
This section tells you how to contact Chevrolet for assistance and how to get service and owner publications.
It also gives you information on “Reporting Safety Defects” on page
8-10.
Index
Here’s an alphabetical listing of almost every subject in this manual. You can use it to quickly find
something you want to read.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Securing a Child Restraint in the Passenger
Seat Position
Your vehicle has a passenger air bag. Never put a
rear-facing child restraint in this vehicle. Here’s why:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured if the passenger’s air bag
inflates. This is because the back of a rear-facing
child restraint would be very close to the inflating
air bag.
Do not use a rear-facing child restraint in
this vehicle.
If’ a forward-facing child restraint is suitable for
your child, always move the passenger seat as far
back
as it will go.
You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See the earlier part
about the top strap if the child restraint has one. Be sure
to follow the instructions that came with the child
restraint. Secure the child in the child restraint when and
as the instructions say.
1. Because your vehicle has a passenger air bag, always
move the seat as far back as it will go before
securing a forward-facing child restraint. (See
“Seats” in the Index.)
2. Put the restraint on the seat.
3. Pick up the latch plate, and run the lap and shoulder
portions of the vehicle’s safety belt through
or
around the restraint. The child restraint instructions
will show you how.
If the shoulder belt goes in front of the child’s face or
neck, put it behind the child restraint.
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Care
....................................... 3-29
Competitive Driving
............................ 2-24
Console. Center
........................... .. .... 2-55
Control of a Vehicle
.............................. 4-5
Convenience Net
............................... 2-57
Convenience Net. Cleaning
....................... 6-54
Convertible Top
................................ 2-68
Convex Outside Mirror
.......................... 2-54
Coolant
............................. 5.13.5.16. 6.22
SurgeTank
.................................. 5-18
Surge Tank Pressure Cap
....................... 6-26
Coolant Heater. Engine
.......................... 2-24
CoolingSystem
................................ 5-16
Courtesy Lamps
................................ 2-52
InCanada
.................................... 8-8
1ntheU.S. ................................... 8-8
Cruise Control ................................. 2-47
Customer Assistance for Text Telephone Users
......... 8-4
Customer Assistance Infomation
................... 8- 1
Customer Satisfaction Procedure .................... 8-2
Damage. Finish
............................... 6-59
Daytime Running Lamps
......................... 2-50
Dead Battery
................................... 5-3
Defects. Reporting Safety
........................ 8- 10
InCanada
................................... 8-11
To General Motors
............................ 8- 11
Defensive Driving
............................... 4-2
Defogger. Rear Window
......................... 3- 11
Defogging ............................ 3-3.3-7. 3-11
Defrosting ................................ 3-3. 3-11
Dimensions. Vehicle
............................ 6-7 1
Dolby B Noise Reduction ........................ 3-16 Door
Locks
....................................... 2-4
Downshifting
.................................. 2-31
Driver Information Center (DIC)
................... 2-87
Warnings and Messages
........................ 2-97
Controls and Displays
......................... 2-88
ABS active
.................................. 2-98
Charge System Fault
.......................... 2-99
Coolant Over Temp
.......................... 2- 101
Flat Tire
. (lf. lr. rf. rr) ........................ 2-104
High Oil Temperature Reduce Engine rpm
........ 2- 102
High Tire Pressure
. (If. lr. rf. rr) ................ 2-105
High Trans Temp
............................ 2- 102
Low Coolant
................................ 2- 101
LowOilLevel ............................... 2-99
Low
Oil Pressure ............................. 2-98
Low Tire Pressure
. (If. lr. rf. rr) ................ 2-103
Maximum Speed
80 mph (129 Wh) ............ 2-101
Reduced Engine Power
........................ 2-99
ServiceABS
................................. 2-98
Service Column Lock
.......................... 2-98
Service Ride Control
......................... 2- 101
Service Tire Monitor (MON) System (SYS) ....... 2-106
Service Traction System
...................... 2-100
Service Vehicle Soon
.......................... 2-99
Shocks Inoperative
........................... 2- 10 1
Traction System
- OFF ....................... 2-100
Traction System
- ON ........................ 2-100
Traction System
(SYS) Active .................. 2-100
Driver Position
................................. 1-11
Driving
........................................ 4-1
City
........................................ 4-19
Defensive
.................................... 4-2
Driver Information Center
(DIC) Messages
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..................................... 4-2
Freeway
.................................... 4-20
InaBlizzard
................................. 4-26
IntheRain
.................................. 4-17
Oncurves
.................................. 4-10
OnSnowandIce ............................. 4-25
WetRoads
.................................. 4-17
Winter
...................................... 4-24
In Foreign Countries
........................... 6-4
Night
...................................... 4-15
On Hill and Mountain Roads
.................... 4-22
Through Deep Water
.......................... 4-18
Drunken Driving
................................ 4-2
Electrical Equipment. Adding
.......... 2.23.3.27. 6.62
Electrical System
............................... 6-62
Electronic Dual Climate Control System
.............. 3-4
Accessory Belt
............................... 6-72
Coolant
........................... 5-13,5-16, 6-22
Coolant Heater
............................... 2-24
Coolant Level Check
.......................... 7- 11
Coolant Temperature Gage ................ 2-8 1, 5- 13
Exhaust
........................... 2-15,2-37, 4-28
Identification
................................ 6-62
Oil, Adding ................................. 6-12
Oil, Additives
................................ 6-15
Oil, Life Monitor
............................. 6-15
EMT
......................................... 6-41
Engine
....................................... 6-10
FuseBlock
.................................. 6-67
Oil
........................................ 6-12
Oil, Checking
................................ 6-12
OilLevelCheck
.............................. 7-11
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Oil. Used ................................... 6-16
Overheating
................................. 5-13
Specifications
................................ 6-70
Oil,
When to Change
.......................... 6-15
Running While Parked
......................... 2-38
Starting Your
................................ 2-22
Oil, Pressure Gage
............................ 2-84
EnglisWMetric Button
........................... 2-77
Ethanol
........................................ 6-4
Exhaust, Engine
...................... 2-15,2-37, 4-28
Express-Down Window
.......................... 2-41
Extended Mobility Tires
......................... 6-41
Fabric Cleaning
............................... 6-53
Fabric Protection
............................... 6-53
Fan Control Buttons
.......................... 3-2, 3-6
Feature, Theft-Deterrent
......................... 2-17
Fiberglass Springs
.............................. 6-59
Fifth Gear. Manual Transmission
................... 2-29
Filling
a Portable Fuel Container .................... 6-8
Filling Your Tank ................................ 6-5
Filter, Air Cleaner
.............................. 6-17
Finish Damage
................................. 6-59
Finish Damage
................................. 6-59
First Gear, Automatic Transmission
................ 2-28
First Gear, Manual Transmission
................... 2-29
Flashers, Hazard Warning
......................... 5-2
Flat Tire, What to Do
............................ 5-22
Fluid Capacities
................................ 6-71
Overheated
Engine Protection Operating Mode
..... 5-13
Finishcare
.................................... 6-56
FloorMats
.................................... 2-59
FobTraining
................................... 2-97
FogLamps
.................................... 2-51