2003 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX Owners Manual

Front Seats
Manual Seats
You can lose control of the vehicle if you try to
adjust a manual driver’s seat while the vehicle
is moving. The sudden movement could startle
and confuse you, or make you push
a pedal
when you don’t want to. Adjust the driver’s
seat only when the vehicle is not moving.
If your vehicle is equipped with manual seats, lift the
lever, located under the front
of the seat, using a twisting
motion. This will unlock the seat. Slide the seat to
where you want it and release the lever.
Try to move
the seat back and forth to make sure the seat is locked
in place.
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Six-Way Power Driver Seat
If your vehicle has this
feature, the control is
located on the outboard
side of the driver's
seat cushion.
To adjust the seat, do any of the following:
control toward the front or the rear.
Move the seat forward or rearward by sliding the
Raise or lower the seat cushion by sliding the
Raise or lower the front portion of the seat cushion
0 Raise or lower the rear portion of the seat cushion
control
up or down.
by sliding the front of the control up or down.
by sliding the rear of the control up or down.
Power Lumbar
If your vehicle is equipped with this feature, there will be
a control located on the outboard side of the driver's
seat cushion, in front of the reclining seatback lever.
To
increase or decrease lumbar support, push the control
forward or rearward.
To adjust the lumbar support up or
down, push the control up or down.
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Heated Seats
If your vehicle is equipped
with this feature, the heated seat switch is
located on the center
console, behind the
open storage bin.
Reclining Seatbacks
The recliner lever for the driver’s and passenger’s front
seatback is located on the outboard side of each
front seat cushion.
Press
LO to warm the seat to a lower temperature.
Press
HI to warm the seat to a higher temperature.
To turn this feature
off, place the switch in the center
position. This feature only works when the ignition
is turned on.
Lift the lever to release the seatback, then move the
seatback
to where you want it. Release the lever to lock
the seatback in place. Pull up on the lever without
pushing on the seatback and the seatback will move
forward.
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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 up or down so that the top of
the restraint is closest to the top of your head.
This position reduces the chance
of a neck injury in
a crash.
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Safety Belts
Safety Belts: They Are 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.
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 E*.-- .n 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.
Your vehicle has a light
that comes on as a
reminder to buckle up.
See Safety
Belt Reminder
Light on page
3-26.
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In most states and in all 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
30 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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