User manual PONTIAC FIREBIRD 1993

1993 PONTIAC Firebird OWNER'S MANUAL Firebird Introduction HOWto Use This Manual . 3 Part 1 Seats & Safety Belts. . 9 Part 2 Features & Controls . . . .45 Part 3 ComfortControls & AudioSystems .I07 Part 4 Your Driving and the Road. . .129 Part 5 Problems on the Road . . 181 Part 6 Service & Appearance Care 215 Part 7 Maintenance Schedule 279 Part 8 CustomerAssistanceInformation 307 rn rn 1993 Owner's Manual Table of Contents rn m rn m rn rn rn rn rn - rn m Including "Reporting Safety Defects" on page 312. J Part 9 Index .......... Service Station Information Printed in U.S.A. Part No. 10193572 B mm............... 323 last Page Second Printing Please keep this manual your Pontiac, so it will be there if you ever need it when you're on the you in If road. it. sell the vehicle, pleaseleave this manual in it so the new owner can use This manual includes the latest information the timeit was printed. We reserve the right to make changes in at the product after that time without further notice. For vehicles first sold in Canada, substitute the name in "General Motorsof Canada Limited" for Pontiac Division whenever it appearsthis manual. For Canadian Owners Who Prefer a French Language Manual A m propri6taires canadiens:Vous pouvez vous procurer un exemplaire de ce guide en francais chez votre concessionaire ou au DGN Marketing Services Ltd., 1500 Bonhill Rd., Mississauga, Ontario L5T 1C7. Published by Pontiac Division General Motors Corporation General Motors,GM and the GM emblem, Pontiac and the Pontiac emblem,and Firebird and the Firebird emblem are registered trademarksof General Motors Corporation. 0Copyright 1992 General Motors Corporation, Pontiac Division. AU Rights Reserved. L 1 How to Use l%is Manual Many people read their owner's manual from beginning to end when they first receive their new vehicle. This will help you learn about the features and controls for your vehicle. In this manual, you'll find that pictures and words work together to explain things quickly. Index: A good place to look for what you need is the Index in back of the manual. It's an alphabetical list of all that's in the manual, and the page number where you'll find it. Part 2: Features & Controls This part explains how to start and operate your Pontiac . Part 3: Comfort Controls & Audio Parts 1-8: Each part of this manual begins with a brief list of its contents, so Systems This part tells you how to adjust the you can often find at a glance if a part ventilation and comfort controls and contains the information you want. how to operate your sound system. How to Use This Manual This part tells you how to use your manual and includes safety and vehicle damage warnings and symbols. Part 1: Seats & Safety Belts This part tells you how to use your seats and safety belts properly. 3.99 How to Use This Manual These mean there is something that could hurt you or other people. Safeiy Warnings and Symbols Part 4 Your Driving and the Road Here you'll find helpful information and tips about the road and how to drive under different conditions. Part 5: Problems on the Road This part tells you what to do if you have a problem while driving, such as a flat tire or engine overheating. Part 6: Service & Appearance Care Here the manual tells you how to keep your Pontiac running properly and looking good. Part 7: Maintenance Schedule This part tells you when to perform maintenance and what fluids and lubricants to use. . I P r 8: Customer Assistance at Information This part includes important information about reporting safety defects and gives you details about the "Roadside Assistance" program. You will also find customer satisfaction phone numbers (including customer satisfaction numbers for the hearing and speech impaired), as well as the mediationlarbitration procedure. We've also included ordering information for service publications in this part. Service Station Information This is a quick reference of service information. You can find it on the last page of this manual. You will find a number of safety cautions in this book. We use yellow and the word CAUTION to tell you about things that could hurt youif you were to ignore the warning. In the yellow caution area, we tell you what the hazard is. Then we tell you what to do to help avoid or reduce the hazard. Please read these cautions. If you don't, you or others could be hurt. .4 I 31 NO TIC I c When you read other manuals, you might see CAUTION and NOTICE warnings in different colors or in different words. In this manual, we've used the familiar words and colors that Pontiac has used for years. You'll also see warning labels on your vehicle. They use the same colors, and the words CAUTION or NOTICE. Vehicle llamage Warnings You will also find a red circle with a slash through it in this book. This safety symbol means "Don't," "Don't do this," or "Don't let this happen." Also, in this book you will find these blue notices. In the blue notice area, we tell you about something that can damage your vehicle. Many times, this damage would not be covered by your warranty, and it could be costly. But the notice will tell you what to do to help avoid the damage. 5.9 9 How to Use This Manual Vehicle Symbols These are some of the symbols you will find on your vehicle. For example, these lights: driven: is symbols are used on an original battery: Caution Possible Injury Protect Eyes by Shielding Theqe symbols are important for you and passengers your whenever These your symbols to have vehicle Fasten Safety Belts Door LocWUnlock do with your Hazard Warning Flasher Headlight High Beam Caustic Battery Acid Could Cause Burns These symbols have to do with your lights: Master Lighting Switch Parking Lights Avoid Sparks or Flames Turn Signal Direction Sparks or Flame Could Explode Battery Fog Lights Courtesy Lights These symbols are on some of your controls: These symbols are used on warning and indicator lights: Here are some other symbols you may see: Windshield Wiper Engine Coolant Temperature Battery Charging System Fuel 1Hood Windshield Washer Engine Oil Pressure Windshield Defroster Brake Rear Window Defogger Anti-Lock Brake System (Canada) Ventilating Fan I3 Release I Hatchback Release Lighter Horn Speaker b Notes Part 1 Seats & Safety Belts Seat H e r e YOU'II find information about the seats in your Pontiac andhow to use your safetybelts properly. You can also learn about some things you should not do with safety belts. Seats and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Safety Belts: They're for Everyone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Why Safety Belts Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Here Are Questions Many People Ask about Safety Belts - and the Answers . . . 19 Safety Belt Reminder Light ........................................... 20 How to Wear Safety Belts Properly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 .................................................... Child Restraints 35 LargerChildren .................................................... 41 Safety Belt Extender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Checking Your Restraint Systems ...................................... 43 Replacing Safety Belts after a Crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Seats & Safety Belts Seuts and Seat Con&& This section tells you about the seats haw to adjust them, and also about reclining h n t seatbacks, satback latches and the folding rear seatback. Manual Front Seat Four- Way Mawal Seat ( O P T ~ N ) To 1 move the driver's seat forwardor backward, lift the lever under the left f front o the seat. To tilt the entire seat, lift the lever under the right front of the seat. I CAUTION: I 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. I Move the lever under the front seat 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. I' Six- Way PowerSeat ( 0 ~ ~ 1 0 ~ ) Fully Articulating Sport Seat The driver's seat has three controls on the left side. The front control makes the front the of seat go up and down. of The back control makes the back the seat go up and down. The center control makes the whole seat go up and down or forward and backward. (OPTION) The switch pads on the outer sides of the ;eats "inflate" and "deflate" parts of [f your Pontiac has these seats, the your seatback. driver's seat has the four-way manual seat adjuster, See "Four-Way Manual Seat" earlier in this part. The passenger seat has the two-way manual seat adjuster. See "Manual Front Seat" earlier in this part. To adjust the thighsupport, pull up on the front of your seat cushion and move the support to the position you want. To release the support, continue pulling up. To engage it again, push down firmly. 11 ==. Se'ats& Safety Belts Reclining Front Seatbacks The two buttons that have "dots" inflate and deflate the outer parts of the seatback. To inflate, push the raised button. To deflate, push the indented button. The two buttons without "dots" inflate and deflate the lumbar (lowerpart of the seatback) support. To inflate, push the raised button. To deflate, push the indented button. To adjust the seatback, lift the lever the on to outer sideof the seat. Release the lever lock the seatback whereyou want it. Pull up on the lever, and the seat will go to its original upright position. But don't have the seatback reclined if your vehicle is moving. I 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. I Seats & Safety Belts R 111 FroN Seatback Latches The frwm seatbacks foid forward to let people get into- the back s a t . To fold a seatback forward, push the seatback toward the rear as you lift this latch. Then the seatback will fold forward. When you return the seatback to its original position, make sure the seatback is locked. The latch must be down for thc seat to work properly. 1 If the seatback isn't locked, it could move forward in a sudden stop or crash. That could cause injury to the person sitting .' :re. Always press rearward on the scatback to be sure it is locked. L ... 14 Folding Rear Seatback The rear seatback in your Pontiac folds h w n to provide more storage space. To fold the seatback down: 1. Pull forward on both levers. 2. Fold the seatback down. T raise the seatback: o 1. Pull it up to the locked, upright position. 2. Be sure both latches hold the seatback in place. Have them fixedif they don't. tl-- Safety Belts: They're for E vervone --4---- This part of the manual tells you howto use safety properly- It You some things you should not do with safety belts. And it explains the Supplemental Inflatable Restraint, or "air bag" system. 1, ,\ they can't wear a safety belt 1 properly. you If are in a crash and I I you,re not wearing a safety belt, your injuries can I I youcan hit thingsbe much worse. 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. Don't let anyone ride where Seats & Safety Belts Why Safety Belts Work This figure lights up when you turn the key to Run or Start when your safety belt isn't buckled, and you'll heara chime, too. It's the reminder to buckle up. In many 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 When you ride in or on anything, you go you do have a crash, you don't know if it as fast as it goes. will be a bad one. For example, if the bike is going 10 mph A few crashes are very mild. In them, you won't get hurt even if you're not buckled up. And some crashes can be so serious, like being hit by a train, 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 be badly hurt or killed. After 25 years of safety belts in vehicles, the facts are clear. In most crashes buckling up does matter ... a lot! ..I 16 Nhen the bike hits the block,it stops. But he child keeps going! rake the simplest "car."Suppose it's just I seat on wheels. Put someone on it. Seats & Safety Belts Get it up to speed. Then stop the "car." The rider doesn't stop. The person keeps going until stopped by something. In a real vehicle, it could be the windshield ... or the instrument panel ... x the safety belts! 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. so people won't have to wear safety belts? A: "Air bags," or Supplemental Inflatable Restraint systems, are in some Q: Won't I be trapped in the vehicle vehicles today and will bein more of after an accidentif I'm wearing a them in the future. But they are safety belt? supplemental systems only - so they A: You could be - whether you're work with safety belts, not instead of wearing a safety belt or not. But you them. Every "air bag" system ever can easily unbuckle a safety belt, even offered for sale has required the use of if you're upside down. And your safety belts. Even if you're in a chance of being conscious during and vehicle that has "air bags,'' you still after an accident, so you can have to buckle up to get the most unbuckle and get out, is much greater protection. That's true not only in if you are belted. frontal collisions, but especially in side and other collisions. Here Are Questions Many PeopleAsk about Safety Belts-and the Answers Q: Why don't they just put in air bags