User manual PONTIAC FIREBIRD 1994

.. . - ..._ PONTIAC .. .. .. ... ...i .' ~,.,. - . . .. Firebird Introduction Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 9 Part 8 1994 0wn:er's Manual Table of Contents How toManual Use This , Seats & Restraint Systems Features & Controls Comfort Coqtrols & Audio Systems Your Driving and the Road Probiems on the Road = & Appearance Care =. A Maintenance Schedule Customer Assistance Information 6 m m m = m 3 7 41 103 125 151 183 239 259 Including "Reporting Safety Defects" on page 261. Part 9 Printed in U.S.A. hdeX Servi.ce Information Station s m m m m = m . = = = = m m m m m = = . m m = m m m m m = = m = 269 Last Page m m m Part No. 10260939 A Second Edition 1 ... How to Use This Manual For Canadian OwnersWho Prefer a French Language Manual Aux proprihires canadiens: Vous pouvez Please keep thismanual in your Pontiac, so vous procurer un exemplaire de ce guide it will be there if you ever need it when en frangis chez votre concessionaire ou au you're on the road. If yousell the vehicle, DGN Marketing Services Ltd., 1500 please leave this manual in it so the new Bonhill Rd., Mississauga, Ontario L5T owner can use it. 1C7. This manual includes the latest information at the time it was printed. We reserve the right to make changes in the product after that time without further notice. For vehicles f i s t sold in Canada, substitute the name "General Motors of Canada Limited" for Pontiac Motor Division wherever it appears in this manual. Important Notes about This Manual Published by: Pontiac Motor Division General Motors Corporation Pontiac Motors, GM and the GM emblem, Pontiac and the Pontiac emblem, and Firebird and the Firebird emblem are registered trademarksof General Motors Corporation. @Copyright1993 General Motors Corporation, Pontiac Motor Division. All Rights Reserved. ...2 How to Use This 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. ~ Part 1 - Seats & Restraint Systems: This part tells you how to use your seats and safety belts properly. It also explains the air bag system. Part 2 - Features & Controls: This part explains howto start and operate your Pontiac. Part 3 - Comfort Controls& Audio Systems: This part tells you how to adjust the comfort controls and how to operate your sound system. Part 4 - Your Driving and the Road: Here you'll find helpful information and tips about the road and howdrive to 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, etc. 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 parttells when to perform vehicle maintenance and what fluids and lubricants to use. Part 8 - Customer Assistance 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 mediatiodarbitration procedure. We've also included ordering information for service publications in this part. Service Station Information:This is a quick referenceof service information. You can find it on the last page of this manual. 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. Parts 1-8: Each part of this manual so begins with a brief list of its contents, you can often find at a glanceif a part contains the information you want. How to Use This Manual: This part tells you how to use your manual and includes safety and vehicle damage warnings and symbols. 3... How to Use This Manual NOTICE: These mean thereis something that could damage your vehicle. You will also find a circle with a slash through it in this book. This safety symba Vehicle Damage Warnings You will find a number of safety cautions means "Don't,'' "Don't do this,'' or "Don' Also, in this book you will find these let this happen." notices. in this book. We use a box with a gray background and the word CAUTION to In the notice area,we tell you about tell you about things that could hurt you if something thatcan damage your vehicle. you were to ignore the warning. Many times, this damage would not be covered by your warranty, and it could be In the gray caution area, we tell you what costly. But the notice will tell you what to the hazard is. Then we tell you what to do do to help avoid the .damage. to help avoid or reduce the hazard. Please read these cautions. If you don't, you or When you read other manuals, you might others could be. hurt. see CAUTION and NOTICE warnings in different colorsor in different words. You'll also see warning labels on your vehicle. Theyuse yellow for cautions, blue for notices and the words CAUTION or NOTICE. Safety Warnings and Symbols ...4 Vehicle Symbols These are someof the symbolsyou will find on your vehicle. For example, these symbols are used onan original battery: These symbols are important for you and your passengers whenever your vehicle is driven: Headlight High Beam Parking Lights CautionPossibleInjury A Fasten Safety Belts Courtesy Lights Door LocWUnlock Window Up/Down Protect Eyes by Shielding @ \\b a A A Fog Lamps These symbols are on some of your controls: Caustic Battery Acid Could Cause Burns These symbols have to do with your lights: Avoid Sparks or Flames 8 Master Lighting Switch Turn Signal Direction HazardWarningFlashers Windshield Wiper Windshield Washer Sparks or Flame Could Explode Battery m Windshield Defroster 5.. How to Use This Manual Rear Window Defogger Ventilating Fan Y These symbols are used on warning and indicator lights: Low Coolant Here are some other symbols may see: you m Engine Coolant Temperature Battery Charging System Bi-Le vel 1-7 Hatchnrunk Release a Vent Hood Release Fuel Engine Oil Pressure Brake (Canada) Lighter Heater Blend w, Horn (0) (8) Speaker Anti-Lock Brake System (Canada) Convertible Top Switch ... 6 Part 1 Seats & Restraint Systems ..', H e r e you'll find information about the seatsin your Pontiac and how use your to safety belts properly.You can also learn about some things you shouldnot do with safety belts. Seats and Seat Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Safety Belts: They're for Everyone . . . . . . . . ..................... 14 Why Safety Belts Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Here Are Questions Many People Ask about Safety Belts - and the Answers . . 17 Safety Belt Reminder Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 19 How to Wear Safety Belts Properly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Children ................................. ..................... 30 Child Restraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..................... 31 ..................... 38 Larger Children ........................... 39 SafetyBeltExtender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Checking Your Restraint Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Replacing Safety Belts after a Crash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 c ?..- Seats and Restraint Systems Seats and Seat Controls This section tells you about the seats how to adjust them, and also about reclining front seatbacks, seatback latches and the folding rear seatback. Manual Front Seat Move the lever under the passenger's 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. Be sure the lever returns to its original position after moving the seat. rour-Way Manual Seat ?omove the driver's seat forward or backward, lift the lever under the left ront of the seat. Slide the seat to where rou want it. Then release the lever and ry to move the seat with your body to nake sure the seatis locked into place. :o tilt the entire seat, lift the lever under he right frontof the seat. ...a Six-Way Power Seat (Option) The driver's seat has three controls on thc eft side. rhe front control makes the front of the ;eat go up and down. The back control makes the back of the ;eat go up and down. The center control makes the whole seat ;o up and down or forward and Jackward. Fully ArticulatingSport Seat (Option) If your Pontiac has these seats, the 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. 9... Seats and Restraint Systems To adjust the thigh support, 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. The switch pads on the outer sides of the seats "inflate" and "deflate" parts of your seatback. The two buttons that have "dots" inflate md deflate the outer parts the seatback. of T inflate, push the raised button. o To leflate, push the indented button. .. . I O The two buttons without"dots" inflate and deflate the lumbar (lower of the part seatback) support.To inflate, push the raised button. To deflate, push the indented button. To adjust the seatback, lift the leveron 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-goto its original upright position. But don't have the seatback reclined if your vehicle is moving. If you have fully articulating sport seats, your recliner lever looks like this,, I 1 II ... Seats and Restraint Systems Head Restraints Slide the head restraints or down so up that the top of the restraint closest to is the top of your ears. This position reduces the chance a of neck injury ina crash. If you have the fully articulating sport seat, you have a six-way head restraint. It can be adjusted up and down, forward and rearward, or tilted. To adjust it forward, pull the restraint forward. To adjust it rearward, pull the restraint forwardall the way to release it. Then move it to the position you want. . . .12 The front seatback folds forward to let people get into the back seat.To fold a seatback forward, push the seatback toward the rear as you lift this latch. Then the s'eatback will fold forward. When you return the seatback to its original position, make sure the seatback is locked. The latch must be downfor the seat to work properly. Folding Rear Seatback The rear seatback in your Pontikc folds down to provide more storage Space. :. To fold the seatback down: i: : 1. Pull forward on both levas$ 2. Fold the seatback down. !. To raise the seatback: 1. Pull it up to the locked, up6ght position. 2. Be sure both latches hold the seatback in place. Have them fixed itithey don't . .-/ 1 , \< I Id... Seats and Restraint Systems Safety Belts: They're for Everyone This part of themanual tells you how to use safety belts properly. Italso tells you some things you should not do with safety belts. And it explainsthe Supplemental Inflatable Restraint, or "air bag" system. 'his figure lights up as a reminder to uckle up. (See "Safety Belt Reminder .ight" in the Index.) n many states and Canadian provinces, he law says to wear safety belts. Here's vhy: They work. You never know if you'll be in a crash. If if you do have a crash, you don't knowit 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 than25 years of safety belts in vehicles, the facts are clear. most In crashes buckling up does matter ... a lot! ... I 4 Why Safety Belts'Work When you ride in or on anything,you go as fast as it goes. For example, if the bike is going mph 10 (16 kmk), so is the child. When the bikehits the block, it stops. But Take the simplest vehicle. Suppwe it's justseat on wheels. a . the child keeps going! -I. ' Seats and Restraint Systems Put someone on it. Get it up to speed. Then stop the vehicle. The rider doesn't stop. The person keeps going until stopped by something. In a real vehicle, it could be the windshield ... . . .I6 H&e &e Questions Many People Ask about Safety Belts - and the Amswers 'Q: Won't I be trapped in tlie vehicle after an aecidemt ifI'm wearing a safety belt? 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 gtrongest bones take theforces. That's why safety belts make such good sense. A: You could be -whether you're wearing a safety belt or not. But you can easily unbuckle a safety belt, even if you're upside down. And your chance .of being conscious during and after an accident, so you can unbuckle and get out, is much greater if you are belted. 17.. . Seats and Restraint Systems Q: Why don't theyjust put in air bags so people won't haveto wear safety belts? A: Air bags, or Supplemental Inflatable Restraint systems, are in some vehicles today and will be in more of them inthe future. But they are supplemental systems only - so they work with safety belts, not instead of them. Every air bag system ever offered for sale has required the use of safety belts. Even if you're in a vehicle that has air bags, you still have to buckle up to get the most protection. That's true not only in frontal collisions, but especially in side and other collisions. Q: If I'm a good driver, andI never drive far from home,why should I wear safety belts? A: You may be an excellent driver, but if you're in an accident - even one that isn't your fault - you and your passengers can be hurt. Being a good driver doesn't protect you from things beyond your control, such as bad drivers. Most accidents occur within 25 miles (40 km) of home. And the greatest Safety BeltReminder number of serious injuries and deaths occur at speeds of less than 40 mph Light (65 km/h). When the key is turned to "Run" or Safety belts are foreveryone. "Start," a chime will come on for about eight seconds to remind people to fasten their safety belts, unless the driver's safety belt is already buckled. The safety belt light will also come on and stay on until the driver's belt is buckled. ... I 8 How to Wear Safety Belts Properly Adults This section is only people of adult for size. Be aware that there are special things to know about safety belts andchildren. And there are different rulesfor smaller children and babies.If a child will be riding in your Pontiac, see the section after this one, called"Children." Follow First, you'll want to know which restraint systems your vehiclehas. those rules for everyone's protection. We'll start with the driver position. Driver Position This section describes the driver's restraint system. Lap-Shoulder Belt The driver has a lap-shoulder belt. Here's how to wear it properly. 1. Close and lock the door. 2. Adjust the seat (to see how, see "Seats" in the Index) so you can sit up straight. I 19 ...