2000 Buick Lesabre Owner's Manual

yellowblue The 2000 Buick LeSabre 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 the air bag 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 helpful information and tips about the road and how to drive under different conditions. 5-1 Problems on the Road This section tells you what to do if 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 tells you how to contact Buick for assistance and how to get service and owner publications. It also gives you information on “Reporting Safety Defects” on page 8-9. 9-1 Index Here’s an alphabetical listing of almost every subject in this manual. You can use it to quickly find something you want to read. i yellowblue We support voluntary technician certification. GENERAL MOTORS, GM, the GM Emblem, BUICK, the BUICK Emblem and the name LESABRE are registered trademarks of General Motors Corporation. 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 first sold in Canada, substitute the name “General Motors of Canada Limited” for Buick Motor Division whenever it appears in this manual. For Canadian Owners Who Prefer a Please keep this manual in your vehicle, so it will be French Language Manual: there if you ever need it when you’re on the road. If you Aux propriétaires canadiens: Vous pouvez vous sell the vehicle, please leave this manual in it so the new procurer un exemplaire de ce guide en français chez owner can use it. votre concessionaire ou au: DGN Marketing Services Ltd. 1577 Meyerside Dr. Mississauga, Ontario L5T 1B9 Litho in U.S.A. ECopyright General Motors Corporation 1998 Part No. 25694050 B First Edition All Rights Reserved ii yellowblue How to Use this Manual Many people read their owner’s manual from beginning CAUTION: to end when they first receive their new vehicle. If you do this, it will help you learn about the features These mean there is something that could hurt and controls for your vehicle. In this manual, you’ll you or other people. find that pictures and words work together to explain things quickly. In the caution area, we tell you what the hazard is. Then we tell you what to do to help avoid or reduce the hazard. Please read these cautions. If you don’t, you or others could be hurt. You will also find a circle Safety Warnings and Symbols with a slash through it in this book. This safety You will find a number of safety cautions in this book. symbol means “Don’t,” We use a box and the word CAUTION to tell you “Don’t do this” or “Don’t about things that could hurt you if you were to ignore let this happen.” the warning. iii yellowblue Vehicle Damage Warnings In the notice area, we tell you about something that can damage your vehicle. Many times, this damage would Also, in this book you will find these notices: not be covered by your warranty, and it could be costly. But the notice will tell you what to do to help NOTICE: avoid the damage. When you read other manuals, you might see These mean there is something that could CAUTION and NOTICE warnings in different colors or in different words. damage your vehicle. You’ll also see warning labels on your vehicle. They use the same words, CAUTION or NOTICE. iv yellowblue Vehicle Symbols These are some of the symbols you may 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 MASTER WINDSHIELD CAUTION driven: LIGHTING WIPER POSSIBLE SWITCH ENGINE FUSE INJURY COOLANT TEMP DOOR LOCK TURN PROTECT WINDSHIELD UNLOCK SIGNALS EYES BY WASHER BATTERY LIGHTER SHIELDING CHARGING PARKING SYSTEM CAUSTIC LAMPS WINDSHIELD BATTERY FASTEN HORN DEFROSTER ACID COULD SEAT BRAKE CAUSE BELTS HAZARD BURNS WARNING FLASHER REAR COOLANT SPEAKER AVOID WINDOW SPARKS OR POWER DEFOGGER FLAMES DAYTIME WINDOW RUNNING ENGINE OIL LAMPS PRESSURE FUEL SPARK OR FLAME VENTILATING COULD FAN EXPLODE AIR BAG FOG LAMPS ANTI-LOCK BATTERY BRAKES v yellowblue ✍ NOTES vi yellowblue Section 1 Seats and Restraint Systems Here you’ll find information about the seats in your vehicle and how to use your safety belts properly. You can also learn about some things you should not do with air bags and safety belts. 1-2 Seats and Seat Controls 1-28 Center Front Passenger Position 1-7 Safety Belts: They’re for Everyone 1-30 Rear Seat Passengers 1-11 Here Are Questions Many People Ask 1-33 Children About Safety Belts -- and the Answers 1-36 Child Restraints 1-12 How to Wear Safety Belts Properly 1-47 Larger Children 1-12 Driver Position 1-50 Safety Belt Extender 1-19 Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy 1-50 Checking Your Restraint Systems 1-20 Right Front Passenger Position 1-50 Replacing Restraint System Parts 1-20 Air Bag Systems After a Crash 1- 1-1 yellowblue Seats and Seat Controls Power Seat This section tells you about the power seats -- how to adjust them and also about reclining seatbacks, lumbar adjustments, heated seats and head restraints. Manual Lumbar Support The power seat controls are located on the outboard side of each front seat cushion. D Raise or lower the front of the seat cushion by holding the front part of the horizontal control up or down. D Raise or lower the rear of the seat cushion by holding The knob that controls this feature is located on the outer the rear part of the horizontal control up or down. edge of the seat. Turn the knob towards the front of the vehicle to increase lumbar support. Turn the knob towards the rear of the vehicle to decrease lumbar support. 1-2 yellowblue D Raise or lower the entire seat cushion by holding the Power Lumbar Control (If Equipped) whole horizontal control up or down. D The lumbar control is Move the seat forward or back by pushing the located on the outboard side horizontal control to the front or back. of each front seat. Use the D Push the vertical control forward to bring the seat to power seat control first to a more upright position. Push it rearward to recline get the proper position. the seatback. See “Reclining Front Seatbacks” Then continue with the later in this section. lumbar adjustment. To reshape the lower seatback, press the lumbar control forward to increase support and rearward to decrease support. Press the control up or down to raise or lower the support mechanism. Keep in mind that as your seating position changes, as it may during long trips, so should the position of your lumbar support. Adjust the seat as needed. 1-3 yellowblue Memory Seat and Mirrors (Option) When your vehicle is in PARK (P) and a memory button is pressed, a single beep will sound through the audio system and the memory position will be recalled. You can also store an exit position for each driver. The exit position is programmed by moving the seat to the desired exit position and then holding the exit button for five seconds. The exit position set will be for the most recently selected driving position (1 or 2). The exit position will be recalled when the exit button is pressed and will correspond to the driving position that was recalled last. Note that selecting a new position with the memory button The controls for the memory seat and mirrors are located will change all other personal choice settings that you have on the driver’s door panel, and are used to program and previously programmed also. See “Personal Choice recall previous settings that have been stored. Programming” in the Index for further information. Adjust the driver’s seat (including the lumbar Memory recall will only work when the automatic adjustments) and both outside mirrors to the position transaxle is in PARK (P). you would like for driving. Then press and hold memory button 1 for five seconds. A double beep will sound when the memory is set. To set the seat and mirror positions for a second driver, follow the previous steps, but press button 2 instead. 1-4 yellowblue Heated Seats (Option) Reclining Front Seatbacks The heated seat controls The vertical control are located on the driver’s described previously and front passenger’s in this section reclines door panel. the front seatbacks. Push the button once for a high setting, twice for a low setting, and a third time to turn off the heated seat. The LO setting warms the seatback and cushion until the seat approximates body temperature.

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