1998 GMC SAVANA interior lights

Section 2 Features and Controls
Here you can learn about the many standard and optional features on your vehicle, and information on starting,
shifting and braking. Also explained are the instrument panel and the warning systems that tell you if everything is
working properly
-- and what to do if you have a problem.
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Door Locks
Keyless Entry System
(If Equipped)
Your Doors and How They Work
Theft Passlock’
New Vehicle “Break-In’,
Ignition Positions
Starting Your Gasoline Engine
Engine Coolant Heater (If Equipped)
Automatic Transmission Operation
Parking Brake Shifting Into PARK (P)
Shifting Out of PARK (P)
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Your Engine While You’re Parked
Locking Rear Axle (If Equipped)
Windows
Horn
Tilt Wheel (Option)
Turn SignalMultifunction Lever
Exterior
Lamps
Interior Lamps Mirrors Storage Compartments
Cigarette LightedAshtray
Sun Visors
Instrument Panel
Instrument Cluster
Warning Lights, Gages and Indicators
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Exterior Lamps
Your parking lamp/headlamp switch is on the driver’s
side
of your instrument panel.
Your instrument panel dimmer thumbwheel has two
detent positions.
When the thumbwheel is moved to full brilliance, and
then into the first detent position, the radio display and
PRNDL display
will go to the day mode (full intensity).
This is known as “parade” mode. The rest
of the UP
illumination
will stay in the maximum dimming state
(full brilliance dimming). Moving the thumbwheel up one
more detent will activate the interior dome light
circuit (with slightly higher effort).
The dome lights cannot be turned
on by depressing the
dome light switch button located below the parking
lampheadlamp knob. This switch is a dome lamp off
switch and will
only interrupt inputs from the door jamb
switches inhibiting interior light operation when
depressed. It will not inhibit
the light function from the
I/P dimmer switch,
The delayed entry feature will allow
you to enter or exit
your vehicle with the lights staying on for about
20 seconds, after the door is closed or ignition is cycled.
Rotate the knob to the right to the parking lamp symbol
to turn on:
0 Parking Lamps
0 Sidemarker Lamps
Taillamps
License Plate Lamps
0 Instrument Panel Lights
0 Ashtray Lamp
Rotate the knob
to the right again to the master lighting
symbol to turn on all the lamps listed above as well as
the headlamps.
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Rotate the knob to the left to OFF to turn off your lamps
and lights.
Rotate the thumbwheel next to the switch knob up to
adjust instrument panel lights. Rotate the thumbwheel
up to the first notch to return the radio display and
gearshift indicator Vacuum Fluorescence (VF) display
to full intensity when the headlamps or parking lamps
are on.
Rotate the thumbwheel up to the second notch
to
activate the interior dome lamps.
You can switch your headlamps from high
to low beam
by pulling on the turn signal/high beam lever.
A circuit breaker protects your headlamps. If you have
an electrical overload, your headlamps will flicker on
and off. Have your headlamp wiring checked right away
if this happens.
Headlamps On Reminder
A tone will sound when your headlamps are turned on
and your ignition is in OFF, LOCK or ACCESSORY. If
you need to use your headlamps when the ignition
switch
is in OFF, LOCK or ACCESSORY, the tone can
be turned
off by turning the thumbwheel next to the
parking lamp/headlamp switch all the way down.
Daytime Running Lamps
Daytime Running Lamps (DRL) can make it easier for
others to see the front
of your vehicle during the day.
DRL can be helpful in many different driving
conditions, but they can be especially helpful in the
short periods after dawn and before sunset.
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