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1994 Pontiac Firebird ... - ..._ PONTIAC . .. ... .. .. ..'i. ~,.,. - . .. 1994 0wn:er’s Manual Firebird Table of Contents Introduction HowUse toThis Manual ,, 3 Part 1 Seats & Restraint6 Systems 7 Part 2 Features & Controls m 41 Part 3 ComfortCoqtrols & AudioSystems 103 Part 4 Your Drivingand the Road m 125 Part 5 Probiems on the Road = 151 Part 6 & AppearanceCare m =. 183 Part 9 MaintenanceSchedule A = 239 Part 8 CustomerAssistance Information m 259 Including “Reporting Safety Defects” on page261. Part 9 hdeX smmmm=m.====mmmmm==.mm=mmmmm==m=mmm 269 Servi.ceStation Information Last Page Printed in U.S.A. Part No. 10260939 A Second Edition 1 ... How to Use This Manual Important Notes about This For Canadian OwnersWho Prefer a Published by: Manual French Language Manual Pontiac Motor Division Aux proprihires canadiens: Vous pouvez General Motors Corporation 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 Pontiac Motors, GM and the GM you’re on the road. If yousell the vehicle, DGN Marketing Services Ltd., 1500 emblem, Pontiac and the Pontiac emblem, please leave this manual in it so the new Bonhill Rd., Mississauga, Ontario L5T and Firebird and the Firebird emblem are owner can use it. 1C7. registered trademarksof General Motors This manual includes the latest information Corporation. at the time it was printed. We reserve the @Copyright1993 General Motors right to make changes in the product after Corporation, Pontiac Motor Division. that time without further notice. For All Rights Reserved. vehicles fist sold in Canada, substitute the name “General Motors of Canada Limited” for Pontiac Motor Division wherever it appears in this manual. ...2 How to Use This Part 1 - Seats & Restraint Systems: Part 7 - Maintenance Schedule: This part tells you how to use your seats This part tells when to perform vehicle Manual and safety belts properly. It also maintenance and what fluids and Many people read their owner’s manual explains the air bag system. lubricants to use. from beginning to end when theyfirst Part 8 - Customer Assistance receive their new vehicle. This will help Part 2 - Features & Controls: This Information: This part includes you learn about the features and controls part explains how to start and operate important information about reporting for your vehicle. In this manual, you’ll your Pontiac. safety defects and gives you details find that pictures and words work Part 3 - Comfort Controls & Audio about the “Roadside Assistance” together to explain things quickly. Systems: This part tells you how to adjust the comfort controls and how to program. You will also find customer ~ Index: A good place to look for what operate your sound system. satisfaction phone numbers (including you need is the Index in back of the Part 4 - Your Driving and the Road: customer satisfaction numbers for the manual. It’s an alphabetical list of all hearing and speech impaired), as well Here you’ll find helpful information that’s in the manual, and the page as the mediatiodarbitration procedure. and tips about the road and howto drive number where you’ll find it. under different conditions. We’ve also included ordering Parts 1-8: Each part of this manual information for service publications in Part 5 - Problems on the Road: This begins with a brief list of its contents,so this part. part tells you what to do if you have a you can often find at a glanceif a part problem while driving, such as a flat Service Station Information: This is contains the information you want. tire or engine overheating, etc. a quick referenceof service How to Use This Manual: This part information. You can find it on the last tells you how to use your manual and Part 6 - Service & Appearance page of this manual. includes safety and vehicle damage Care: Here the manual tells you warnings and symbols. how to keep your Pontiac running properly and looking good. 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 Safety Warnings andSymbols 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 in this book. We use a box with a gray let this happen.” notices. 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 In the gray caution area, we tell you what covered by your warranty, and it could be the hazard is. Then we tell you what to do costly. But the notice will tell you what to to help avoid or reduce the hazard. Please do to help avoid the .damage. 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. ...4 Vehicle Symbols These symbols are important for you and Headlight High Beam your passengers whenever your vehicle is These are someof the symbols you will driven: find on your vehicle. For example,these Parking Lights symbols are used onan original battery: Fasten Safety Belts Courtesy Lights CautionPossible Injury A Door LocWUnlock Fog Lamps Protect Eyes by Shielding Window Up/Down @ These symbols are on some of your a controls: Caustic Battery Acid These symbols have to do with your lights: Could Cause Burns Master Lighting Switch Windshield Wiper Avoid Sparks or Flames 8 Turn Signal Direction Windshield Washer Sparks or FlameCould \\b Hazard Warning Flashers A ExplodeBattery m A Windshield Defroster 5.. How to Use This Manual Rear Window Defogger These symbols are used on warning and Low Coolant indicator lights: m Y Here are some other symbolsyou may see: Ventilating Fan Engine Coolant Temperature HatchnrunkRelease Bi-L e vel a Battery Charging System 1-7 Hood Release Vent Fuel Lighter Heater Engine Oil Pressure w, Blend Horn Brake (Canada) (0)(8) Speaker Anti-Lock Brake System (Canada) Convertible Top Switch ...6 Part 1 Seats & Restraint Systems ..’, Here you’ll find information about the seats in your Seats and Seat Controls ............ ...........8 Pontiac and howto use your Safety Belts: They’refor Everyone ........ ..................... 14 safety belts properly.You can Why Safety Belts Work ............................................. 15 c also learn aboutsome things Here Are Questions Many People Ask about Safety Belts - and the Answers . 17 you should do with safety Safety Belt Reminder Light .......................................... 18 not How to Wear Safety Belts Properly .................................... 19 belts. Children ................................. ..................... 30 Child Restraints ...... .............. ..................... 31 Larger Children ........................... ..................... 38 SafetyBeltExtender ............................................... 39 Checking Your Restraint Systems ..................................... 40 Replacing Safety Belts after a Crash ................................... 40 ?..- 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 rour-Way Manual Seat Move the lever under the passenger’s front seat to unlock it. Slide the seat to ?o move the driver’s seat forwardor where you want it. Then release the lever backward, lift the lever under the left and try to move the seat with your body, ront of the seat. Slide the seat to where to make sure the seat is locked into place. rou want it. Then release the lever and Be sure the lever returns to its original ry to move the seat with your body to position after moving the seat. nake sure the seatis locked into place. :o tilt the entire seat, lift the lever under he right front of the seat. ...a Six-Way Power Seat (Option) Fully ArticulatingSport Seat The driver’s seat has three controls on thc (Option) eft side. If your Pontiac has these seats, the rhe front control makes the front of the driver’s seat has the four-way manual seat ;eat go up and down. adjuster. See “Four-Way Manual Seat” The back control makes the back of the earlier in this part. The passenger seat has ;eat go up and down. the two-way manual seat adjuster. See “Manual Front Seat” earlier in this part. The center control makes the whole seat ;o up and down or forward and Jackward. 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 The two buttons that have “dots” inflate seats “inflate” and “deflate” parts of your md deflate the outer partsof the seatback. seatback. To inflate, push the raised button.To leflate, push the indented button. .IO The two buttons without“dots” inflate To adjust the seatback, lift the leveron If you have fully articulating sport seats, and deflate the lumbar (lowerpart of the the outer side of the seat. Release the your recliner lever looks like this,, seatback) support.To inflate, push the lever to lock the seatback where you raised button. To deflate, push the want it. Pull up on the lever, and the indented button. seat will-go to its original upright position. But don’t have the seatback reclined if your vehicle is moving.
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