1998 Oldsmobile Cutlass Owner's
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;et tht The 1998 Oldsmobile Cutlass Owner’s Manual 1-1 Seats and Restraint Systems This section tells you how to use your seats and safety belts properly. It also explains“SRS” the system. 2-1 Features and Controls This section explains how to start and operate your vehicle. 3- 1 Comfort Controls and Audio Systems This section tells you how to adjust the ventilation and comfort controls and how to operate your audio system. 4-1 Your Driving and the Road Here you’ll find helpfulinfomation and tips about the road and how to drive under different conditions. 5-1 Problems on the Road This section tells what to doif you have a problem while driving, such as a flat tire or overheated engine, etc. 6- 1 Service and Appearance Care Here the manual tells you how to keep your vehicle running properly and looking good. 7-1 Maintenance Schedule This section tells you when to perform vehicle maintenance and what fluids and lubricants to use. 8- 1 Customer Assistance Information This section tellsyou how to contact Oldsmobile for assistance and how to get service and owner publications. It also gives you information on “Reporting Safety Defects”on page 8-8. 9-1 Index Here’s an alphabetical listingof almost every subjectin this manual. You can use it to quickly find something you want to read. i we suppxt voluntary technician certification. .. GENERAL MOTORS, GM, the GM Emblem, WE SUPPORT OLDSMOBILE, the OLDSMOBILE Rocket Emblem VOLUNTARY TECHNICIAN are registered trademarks and the name CUTLASS is a CERTIFICATION THROUGH trademark of General Motors Corporation. National Institute for AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE This manual includes the latest information at the timeit EXCELLENCE was printed. We reserve the right to make changes in the product after that time without further notice. For vehicles first sold in Canada, substitute the name “General Motors of Canada Limited” for Oldsmobile For Canadian OwnersWho Prefer a Division whenever it appears in this manual. French Language Manual: Please keep this manual in your vehicle,so it will be Anx propribtaires canadiens:Vous pouvez vous there if you ever need it when you’re on the road.If you procurer un exemplairede ce guide en frangais chez sell the vehicle, please leave this manualit inso the new votre concessionaireou au: owner can use it. DGN Marketing ServicesLtd. 1577 Meyerside Dr. Mississauga, Ontario L5T 1B9 Litho in U.S.A. @Copyright General Motors Corporation 1997 Part No. 22656197 B First Edition All Rights Reserved ii How to Use this Manual Many people read their owner’s manualfrom beginning to end when theyfirst receive their new vehicle.If you do this,it will help you learn aboutthe features and These mean thereis something thatcould hurt controls for your vehicle.In this manual, you’llfiid you or other people. that pictures and words work togetherto explain things quickly. In the caution area, we tell you whatthe hazard is. Then Index we tell you what to doto help avoid or reduce the A good placeto look for what you needis the Index in hazard. Please read these cautions.If you don’t, you or back of the manual. It’s an alphabeticallist of what’s in others could behurt. the manual, andthe page number where you’llfind it. You will also find a circle with a slash throughit in Safety Warnings andSymbols this book. This safety You will find a number of safety cautionsin this book. symbol means “Don’t,” We use a box andthe word CAUTION to tell you “Don’t do this” or “Don’t about things that could hurt youif you wereto ignore let this happen.” the warning. iii iv Vehicle Symbols These are some of the symbols youmay find on your vehicle. For example, These symbols These symbols These symbols These symbols Here are some these symbols are important have to do with are on some of are used on other symbols are used on an for you and your lamps: your controls: warning and you may see: original battery: your passengers indicator lights: whenever your vehicle is WINDSHIELD CAUTION driven: wmQ POSSIBLE A FUSE INJURY COOLANT TEMP - TURN PROTECT UNLOCK SIGNALS EYESBY Pa e @ BAlTERY LIGHTER m SHIELDING CHARGING I-1 SYSTEM CAUSTIC WINDSHIELD BAllERY HORN DEFROSTER )tr ACID COULD SEAT BRAKE (0) CAUSE BELTS BURNS SPEAKER AVOID b SPARKS OR POWER DAYTIME - FLAM€S WINDOW RUNNING * 0 ENGINE OIL LAMPS .** PRESSURE e,FUEL SPARKOR ,\I/, p3 FLAME VENTILATING COULD *9 FAN EXPLODE AIR BAG p\ FOG LAMPS 4 ANTI-LOCK (@) $0 BRAKES BAllERY .;/ V :ka(n NOTES vi Section 1 Seats and Restraint Systems Here you’ll find information aboutthe seats in your Oldsmobileand how to use your safety belts properly.You can also learn about some things you shouldnot do withair bags and safety belts. 1-2 Seats and Seat Controls 1-30 Rear Safety Belt Comfort Guides 1-6 Safety Belts: They’re for Everyone for Children and Small Adults 1-11 Here Are Questions Many PeopleAsk About 1-32 Center Passenger Position Safety Belts-- and the Answem 1-34 Children 1-12 How to Wear Safety Belts Properly 1-37 Child Restraints 1-12 Driver Position 1-49 Larger Children 1-19 Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy 1-52 Safety Belt Extender 1-20 Right Front Passenger Position 1-52 Checking Your Restraint Systems 1-20 Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) 1-52 Replacing Restraint System Parts 1-27 Rear Seat Passengers After a Crash 1-1 Seats and Seat Controls This section tells you aboutthe seats -- how to adjust them-- and also about reclining seatbacks and head restraints. Manual Seats You can lose controlof the vehicle if you try to adjust a manual driver’s seat while the vehicleis moving. The sudden movement couldstartle and confuse you, or make you push a pedal when you Lift the lever underthe front seat to unlockit. Slide the don’t want to. Adjust the driver’s seat only when seat to where you want it. Then release the lever and try the vehicleis not moving. to move the seat withyour body, to make sure the seatis locked into place. c 1-2 6-Way Power Seat (If Equipped) Move the seat higher by lifting and holding the bottom of the button. Lower the seat by pushing and holding the top of the button. To move the seat forward, push the rear of the button forward. To move the seat backward, push the front of the button rearward. Raise the fiontof the seat by lifting and holding the bottom front end of the button. Lower the front of the seat by pushing and holding the top front end of the button. Raise the rear of the seat by lifting and holding the bottom rear of the button. Lower the rear of the seat by pushing and holding the top rear of the button. The power seat button is located on the lower, left side of the driver's seat. This button allows you to move the seat up, down, forward and backward.It also moves the front of the seat up or down and the rear of the seat up or down. -. 1-3 - , 8, , To adjust the seatback,lift the lever on the outer sideof the seat and move the seatback to where you it. want But don't have a seatback reclined if your vehicle Release the leverand ensure the handle returns to the is moving. original position and the seatbackis securely locked. 111up on the lever and the seat willgo to an upright position. 1-4 Head Restraints Slide the head restraintup or down so that the top of the .re&@$ is closwt to the top of your ears. This position ieducei the chanceof a neck injury in a crash. Rear Seats Folding Rear Seat 1-5 Safety Belts: They’refor Everyone This part of the manual tells you howto use safety belts properly. It also tellsyou some things youshould not do with safety belts. And it explains the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS), or air bag system. Don’t let anyoneride where heor she can’t wear a safety belt properly.If you are in a crash and you’re not wearing a safety belt, your injuries To open the folding rear seat, open thetrunk and pull can be much worse.You can hit things insidethe one or bothof the tethers located on the left sideof the vehicle or be ejected from it.You can be seriously trunk. The left-hand tether will open the larger ofside injured or killed. In the same crash, you might the seatback. The right-handtether will open the smaller not beif you are buckled up. Alwaysfasten your side of the seatback. Oncea tether is pulled, the seatback safety belt,and check that your passengers’ belts can be pushed open through thetru& or pulled open from inside the- vehicle. are fastened properly too. To close the split folding rearseat, push the seatback up until you hear a click. Then pull on the seatback to make sure it issecure. 1-6 Your vehicle has alight that comes on as a reminder to buckle up. (See “Safety L Belt Reminder Light’’in the Index.) 4 r, ‘I In most stales.and Canadian provinces,the law saysto wear safety belts. Here’s why:They work. You never know if you’ll bein a crash. Lf you do have a crash, you don’t know ifit will be a bad one. A few crashes are mild, and some crashescan be so serious thateven buckled up a person wouldn’t survive. But most crashes are in between.