1993 PONTIAC Bonneville (SE, SSE, Ssei) OWNER's MANUAL 1993 Owner’S Manual Pontiac Bonneville Table of Contents
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1993 PONTIAC Bonneville (SE, SSE, SSEi) OWNER'S MANUAL 1993 Owner’s Manual Pontiac Bonneville Table of Contents Introduction How to Use this Manual ...............3 Part 1 Seats & Safety Belts .................s Part 2 Features & Controls ................45 Part 3 Comfort Controls & Audio Systems ....119 Part 4 Your Driving and the Road ......... .I45 I Part 5 Problems on the Road ..............191 Part 6 Service & Appearance Care .........221 I Part 7 Maintenance Schedule. ........... .275 Part 8 Customer Assistance Information ... ,297 Includes “Reporting Safety Defects” on page 302 Parts Index ............................ 311 Service Station Information. ...Last Page Printed in USA 10202135 B Second Printing . Important Notes About this Manual 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 timeit was printed. We reserve the right to make changes in the product after that time without furthernotice. Note to Canadian Owners For vehicles first sold in Canada, substitute the name “General Motors of Canada Limited” for Pontiac Division whenever it 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 francais chez votre concessionaire ou au DGN Marketing Services Ltd., 1500 Bonhill Rd., Mississauga, Ontario L5T 1C7. Published by Pontiac Division The word Pontiac, the Pontiac emblem and the General Motors Corporation name Bonneville are registered trademarks of General Motors Corporation. The word Delco is a registered trademark of General Motors Corporation. 0Copyright 1992 General Motors Corporation, Pontiac Division.All rights reserved. ... 2 +ow to Use this Manual c Using Your 1993 Pontiac Owner’s Manual There are nine parts with color-tabbed Part 1: Seats and Safety Belts Many people read their owner’s manual pages in this manual. Each part begins This part tells you how to use your seats from beginning to end when they first with a brief list of contents, so you can and safety belts properly. usually tell at a glance if that part receive their new vehicle. This will help Part 2: Features & Controls you learn about the features and controls contains the information you want. for your vehicle. In this manual, you’ll You can bend the manual slightly to This part explains how to start and find that pictures and words work reveal the color tabs that help you find a operate your Pontiac. together to explain things quickly. part. Part 3: Comfort Controls & Audio Systems This part tells you how to adjust the ventilation and comfort controls and how to operate your audio system. 3 How to Use this Manual Using bur 1993 Pontiac Owner’s Manual (CONT.) Part 7: Maintenance Schedule Part 9: Index Part 4: Your Driving and the Road This part tells you when to perform Here’s an alphabetical listingof almost Here you’ll find helpful information and vehicle maintenance and whatfluids and every subject that’s in this manual. You tips about the road and how todrive lubricants to use. can use it to quickly find something you under different conditions. Part 8: Customer Assistance want to read. Part 5: Problems on the Road Information Service Station Information: This part tells you what to do if you This part tells you how to contact This is a quick reference of service have a problem whiledriving, such as a Pontiac for assistance and how to get information. You can find it on the last flat tire or engine overheating. service publications. It also gives you page of this manual. information on Reporting Safety Defects. Part 6: Service & Appearance Care Here the manual tellsyou how to keep your Pontiac running properly and looking good. .I. 4 c Safety Warnings and Symbols Vehicle Damage Warnings You will find a number of safety You will also find a red circle with a Also, in this book you will find these cautions in this book.We use yellow slash through it in this book. This safety blue notices: and the word CAUTION to tell you symbol means: about things that couldhurt you-if you were to ignore the warning. Don’t These mean there is something that Don’t do this could damage your vehicle. bAU I IUIV I Don’t let this happen These mean thereis something In the blue notice area, we tell you L that could hurtyou or other about something that can damage your people. I vehicle. Many times, this damage would not be covered by your warranty, and it In the yellow caution area, we tell you could be costly. But the notice will tell what the hazard is. Thenwe tell you you what to do to help avoid the what to do to help avoidor reduce the damage. hazard. Please read these cautions.If When you read other manuals, you you don’t, you or others could behurt. 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. 5 ... How to Use this Manual Vehicle Symbols These are some of the symbols you will These symbols are important for you These symbols have to do with your find on your vehicle. For example, these and your passengers whenever your lights: symbols are used on an original battery: vehicle is driven: Master Lighting Switch Caution Possibleinjury A Fasten Safety Belts Turn Signal Direction Protect Eyes by Shielding Door LocWUnlock @ Hazard Warning Flashers Caustic Battery Acid Could Cause Burns Avoid Spark or Flames Headlight High Beam Sparks or Flame Could Parking Lights Explode Battery pf Fog Lights $0 m.. 6 r These symbols are on some of your These symbols are used on warning and controls: indicator lights: I Windshield Wipers Ventilating Fan Engine Coolant L Temperature Windshield Washer Power Window Battery Charging System Headlight Washers a Fuel Windshield Defroster Engine Oil Pressure Rear Window Defogger Q@ Brake Anti-Lock Brakes How to Use this Manual Here are some other symbols you may see: Fuse Trunk Release Lighter Horn Speaker Hood Release mm. 8 t r Y . Part 1 Seats & Safety Belts HereyouW find information about Seats and Seat Controls ........................................... 10 the seats in your Pontiac. your SafetyBelts ...................................................... 13 Supplemental Inflatable Restraint How to Wear Safety Belts Properly .................................... 18 (“air bag”) system and how to use Driver Position ....................................... ......18 your safety belts properly. You can Supplemental Inflatable Restraint System (Air Bag) ..................... 22 also learn about some things you Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy .................................... 29 should not do with safety belts. Right Front Passenger Position ....................................... 29 Center Passenger Position ........................................... 30 RearSeat Passengers ..................... ...................... 31 Children ......................................................... 33 Smaller Children and Babies ......................................... 33 Child Restraints ................................................... 34 LargerChildren ................................................... 42 Safety Belt Extender ............................................... 43 Replacing Safety Belts Aftera Crash............................... 44 9 ... Seats & Safety Eelts . rn Seats and Seat Controls Manual Front Seat This section tells you about the seats- Move the control lever under the front how to adjust them-and also about of the seat to unlock it. Slide the seat to reclining seatbacks and head restraints. A You can lose control of the where you want it. Then release the 1vehicle if you try to adjust a lever and try to move the seat with your manual driver's seat while the body, to make sure the seat is locked vehicle is moving. The sudden into place. 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. 10 Y Power Seat(OPTION) Adjustable Suppot Seat (omoN) To adjust the power seaton some On some models, you'll find the '9Tilts the rear of the seat up or models: controls on the center console. Slide the down. Front Control (A): Raise the front of selector switch to L or R to choose the the seat by holding the switch up. Lower front seat you want to adjust. AdTilts the front of the seat up or the front of the seat by holding the JbAdjusts the seat forward or back. down. switch down. Center Control (B): Move the seat AJAdjusts the seat up or down. forward or back by holding the control I to the right or left. 4 Adjusts the seatback to an upright Move the seat higherby holding the *or reclined position. Don't have a control up. Lower the seat by holding seatback reclined if your vehicle the control down. is moving. Rear Control (C): Raise the rearof the seat by holding the switchup. Lower the Adjusts the position of the rear of the seat by holding the switch seatback side bolsters. down. Seats & Safety 6elts Adjustable Support Seat (CONTJ Manual Reclining Seatback Lumbar Controls (OPTION) I Lift the lever to release the seatback, L Sitting in a reclined position Reshapes the lower back area of then tilt the seatback forward or I Len yourvehicle is in the seat. backward, as desired. Release the lever motion can be dangerous. Even if to lock the seatback in place. I you buckle up, your safety belts d. Reshapes the middle back area of can’t do their job whenyou’re the seat. But don’t have a seatback reclined if your vehicle is moving. reclined like this. n & Reshapes the upper back area of The shoulder beltcan’t do its job the seat.