PONTIAC i IS94 EONNEVILLE OWNER'S MANUAL 1994 Owner’s Manual pPontiac Bonneville Table of Contents Introduction HOWto Use This Manual ............ Part I Seats & Restraint Systems ........... 7L Part 2 Features & Controls ............... 41 c Part 3 Comfort Controls & Audio Systems . I I I I Part 4 Your Driving and the Road ......... 137 E Part 5 Problems on the Road ............. 165 Part 6 Service & Appearance Care ........ 193 I Part 7 MaintenanceSchedule ............ 247 E Part 8 Customer Assistance Information . 265 Includes “Reporting Safety Defects” on page 269. Part9 Index ........................... 279 I Service Station Information .. Last Page Printed in USA 10260958 A Second Edition ... Important Notes About thisManual Please keep this manual in your Pontiac, so it will be there if you ever need it when you’re on the road. If YOU sell the vehicle, please leave this manual in it so the new owner can use it. 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. Note to Canadian Owners For vehicles first sold in Canada, substitute the name “General Motors of Canada Limited” for Pontiac Division wheneverit appears in this manual. For Canadian Owners Who Prefer a French Language Manual: Aux proprietaires canadiens: Vous pouvez vous procurer un exemplaire de ce guide en franGais chez votre concessionaire ou au DGN Marketing Services Ltd., 1500 Bonhill Rd., Mississauga, Ontario L5T 1C7. Published by Pontiac Division GM and the GM Embiem, Pontiac, the Pontiac Emblem General Motors Corporation and the name Bonneville are registered trademarks of General Motors Corporation. The word Delco is a registered trademark of General Motors Corporation. @ Copyright 1993 General Motors Corporation, Pontiac Division. All rights reserved. ... 2 How to Use This Manual 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 part tells you when to perform Using Your 1994 Pontiac vehicle’maintenance and what fluids and’ Owner’s Manual This part tells you how to use your seats lubricants to use. and safety belts properly. It also explains Part 8: Customer Assistance Many people read their owner’s manual the “SIR’ (Air Bag) System. Information from beginning to end when they first Part 2: Features & Controls This part tells you how to contact Pontiac receive their new vehicle. This will help for assistance and how to get service you learn about the features and controls This part explains how to start and publications. It also gives you information for your vehicle. In this manual, you’ll operate your Pontiac. on “Reporting Safety Defects” on find that pictures and words work Part 3: Comfort Controls & Audio page 269. together to explain things quickly. Systems Part 9: Index There are nine parts with black-tabbed This part tells you how to adjust the Here’s an alphabetical listing of almost pages in this manual. Each part begins ventilation and comfort controls and how every subject in this manual. You can use it with a brief list of contents, so you can to operate your sound system. to quickly find something you wantto read. usually tell at a glance if that part Part 4: Your Driving and the Road contains the information you want. Service Station Information Here you’ll find helpful information and This is a quick reference of service You can bend the manual slightlyto reveal tips about the road and how to drive information. You can find it on the last the black tabs that help you finda part. under different conditions. page of this manual. 3.. [n the gray caution area, we tell you what Vehicle Damage Warnings the hazard is. Then we tell you what to do to help avoid or reduce the hazard. Please 41~0,in this book you will find these read these cautions. If you don’t, you or notices: others could be hurt. You will also find a circle with a slash NOTICE. through it in this book. This safety These mean there is something that symbol means: could damage your vehicle. “Don’t,” “Don’t do this,” [n the notice area, we tell you about Safety Warnings and or “Don’t let this happen.” something that can damage your vehicle. Many times, this damage would notbe Symbols :overed by your warranty, and it could be You will find a number of safety cautions :ostly. But the notice will tell youwhat to in this book. We use a box with gray jo to help avoid the damage. background and the word CAUTION to When you read other manuals,you might tell you about things that could hurt you i: see CAUTION and NOTICE warningsin you were to ignore the warning. lifferent colors or in different words. You’ll also see warning labels on your vehicle. They use yellow forcautions, blue for notices, and the words CAUTION or NOTICE. ...4 Vehicle Symbols These symbols Here are some are used on other symbols These are some of the symbols you may find on your vehicle. warning and you may see: indicator lights: For example, These symbols These symbols These symbols FUSE these symbols are important have to do with are on some of ENGINE are used on an for you and your lights: your controls: COOLANT TEMP Fa 11lp original battery: your passengers -- RADIO - - , b whenever your SELECTOR vehicle is JEI CAUTION driven: WIPER BATTERY POSSIBLE A Q7 CHARGING I-1 INJURY SYSTEM RADIO DOOR LOCK VOLUME UNLOCK TURN PROTECT SIGNALS BRAKE EYES BY e (0) SHIELDING WINDSHIELD FASTEN SEAT CONDITIONINGAIR 4 DEFROSTER RADIATOR 43 CAUSTIC COOLANT BELTS BATTERY ACID COULD CAUSE WINDOW FUEL BURNS DEFOGGER POWER --I WINDOW '* ENGINE OIL LIGHTER AVOID PRESSURE Wb SPARKS OR VENTILATING 4 m FLAMES FAN (I HIGH BEAMOR = =o TEMPOIL SPARK OR ,111, ?b FLAME FOG LAMPS COULD $0 ANTILOCK (@) SPEAKER EXPLODE BRAKE BATTERY b 5.00 Notes .6 Part 1 Seats & Restraint Systems HereYOU’II find informationabout the Seats and Seat Controls ...............................................8 seats in your Pontiac and how to use SafetyBelts ....................................................... 11 your safety belts properly. You can How to Wear Safety Belts Properly ..................................... 16 also learn about some things you DriverPosition ..................................................... 16 should not do with safety belts. Supplemental Inflatable Restraint System (Air Bag) ........................ 20 Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy ..................................... 24 Right Front Passenger Position ........................................ 25 Center Passenger Position ............................................ 25 Rear Seat Passengers ................................................ 26 Children ........................................................ 29 Smaller Children and Babies ........................................ 29 Child Restraints .................................................... 30 LargerChildren .................................................... 37 SafetyBelt Extender ................................................ 39 Replacing Safety Belts After a Crash ................................... 39 Seats & Restraint Systems 4 Seats and Seat Controls This section tells you about the seats-how to adjust them-and also about reclining seatbacks and head restraints. Manual Front Seat Move the control lever under the front of Power Seat (OPTION) the seat to unlock it. Slide the seat to where you want it. Then release the lever To adjust the power seats on some models: and try to move the seat with your body, to make sure the seat is locked into place. Front Control (A): Raise the front of the seat by holding the switch up. Lower the front of the seatby holding the switch down. Center Control (B): Move the seat forward by pressing the control toward the front, or backwardby pressing it toward the rearof the vehicle. Move the seat higherby holding the control up. Lower the seatby holding the control down. Rear Control (C): Raise the rearof the seat by holding the switch up. Lower the ofrear the seat by holding the switch down. ...a Adjusts the position of the seatback sid’ebolsters. 0 Tilts the rear of the seat up or .down. Tilts the front of the seat up or down. Lumbar Controls .. , I ?, I.’ Adjustable Support Seat Manual Reclining . ^,’ I (OPTION) Reshapes the lower back Seatback (OPTION) On some models, you’ll find the controls area of the seat. Lift the lever to release the seatbacgi, then on the center console. Slide the selector tilt the seatback forward or backwatd as switch to “L” or “R’ to choose the front Reshapes the middle back desired. Release the lever to lock th9 seat you want to adjust. area of the seat. seatback in place. But don’t have a seatback reclined if your Adjusts the seat forward Reshapes the upper back vehicle is moving. -J- or back. area of the seat. ‘IAJ Adjusts the seat up or down. 4. Adjusts the seatback to an upright or reclined position. Don’t have a seatback reclined if your vehicle is moving. Seats & Restraint Systems * Head Restraints Slide the head restraint upor down so that the top of the restraint is closest to the top of your ears. This position reducesthe chance of a neck injury in a crash. On some models, you can also adjust the head restraint by tilting the pad forward or rearward. ... IO Safety Belts: They’re A few crashes are mild, and some crashes :an be so serious that even buckled up a For Everyone person wouldn’t survive. But most :rashes are in between. In many of them, This part of the manual tells you how to people who buckle up can survive and use safety belts properly. It alsotells you sometimes walk away. Without belts they r some things you should not do with safety could have been badly hurt or killed. belts . After more than 25 years of safeiy belts in And it explains the Supplemental vehicles, the facts are clear.