1995 Buick Skylark Owner's Manual

The 1995 Buick Skylark Owner’sManual How toUse this Manual ................................................................ iii This section tells you how to use your manual and includes safety and vehicle damage warnings and symbols. Seats and Restraint Systems ............................................................. 1-1 This section tells you howto use your seats and safety belts properly.It also explains “SRS” system. FeaturesandControls .................................................................. 2-1 This section explains howto start and operate your Buick. Comfort Controls and Audio Systems ..................................................... 3-1 This section tells you howto adjust the ventilation and comfortcontrols and how to operate your sound system. YourDrivingandtheRoad .............................................................. 4-1 Here you’ll find helpful information and tips about the road and how to drive under different conditions. ProblemsontheRoad .................................................................. 5-1 This section tells you whatto do if you have a problem whiledriving, such as aflat tire or engine overheating, etc. ServiceandAppearanceCare ............................................................ 6-1 Here the manual tells you howto keep your Buick running properly and looking good. Maintenanceschedule .................................................................. 7-1 This section tells you whento perform vehicle maintenance and whatfluids and lubricants to use. CustomerAssistance Information ........................................................ 8-1 This section tells you how to contact Buick for assistance and how to get service publications. It also gives you information on “Reporting Safety Defects” on page8-4. Index ................................................................................ 9-1 Here’s an alphabeticallisting of almost every subject inthis manual. You can use it toquickly find something you wantto read. i % GENERAL MOTORS,GM and the GM Emblem, WE SUPPORT VOLUNTARY TECHNICIAN BUICK, and the BUICK Emblem are registered CERTIFICATION THROUGH trademarks of General Motors Corporation. National Institutefor AUTOMOTIVE This manual includes the latest informationat the time it SERVICE EXCELLENCE was printed. We reserve the rightto make changes in the product after that time without further notice. For vehicles first soldin Canada, substitute the name “General Motorsof Canada Limited”for Buick Motor For Canadian Owners Who Prefera Division wheneverit appears in this manual. French Language Manual: Please keep this manual in your Buick,so it will be there Aux propriiitaires canadiens: Vous pouvez vous procurer if you ever needit when you’re onthe road. If you sell un exemplaire de ce guide en franpis chez votre the vehicle, please leave this manual itin so the new concessionaire ou au DGN Marketing Services Ltd., owner can useit. 1500 Bonhill Rd., Mississauga, Ontario L5T 1C7. Litho in U.S.A. @Copyright General Motors Corporation1994 Part No. 25620607 B First Edition All Rights Reserved ii “valve-in-head” engine, a light, powerful and reliable engine which would eventually influence the entire automotive industry. William C. Durant was instrumental in promoting Buicks across the country using his Durant-Dort Carriage Co. outlets and salespeople as the nucleus of a giant distribution system. He knew the Buick as a “self-seller”. If automobiles could be this good, he thought, maybe it was time to switchfrom the horse and buggy businessto automobiles. At the 1905,New York Auto Show, Durant took orders for 1,000 Buicks before the company had Walter Marr and ThomasBuick built 40. On Buick’s Buick’s chief engineer, WalterL. Marr (left), and success, Durant created a Thomas D. Buick, son of founder David Dunbar Buick, holding company, drove the first Flint Buickin a successful Flint-Detroit September 16, 1908. He round trip in July 1904. called it General Motors. David Buick was building gasoline engines by 1899, and Marr, his engineer, apparently built the first autoto be called a Buickin 1900. However, Buick traditionally dates its beginningsto 1903. That was the year the company was reorganized, refinanced and moved from William C. (Billy)Durant Detroit to Flint. Buick has always been a product innovator. Buick engineers developed the iv Durant also created a racing team that won 500 racing Buick drew plenty of attention because it could climb trophies in 1909 and 19 10,including successes at hills and run through mudlike no other car. Buick’s Indianapolis two years before the Indy 500 began. endurance and reliability were world famous. The success of Buick engines was visible not only on During World War I, Buick built Liberty aircraft engines the race track, but in endurance tests across the country as well as Red Cross ambulances so successful that one and around the world. Buick was the only car to Buick ambulance was awarded the Croix de Guerre by complete a 1,000-mile Chicago-to-New York race in the French government. 1906. And a Buick was the first carto travel across As a builder of premier automobiles, Buick washard hit South America, driven from Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Great Depression. However, new General over the Andes to Santiago, Chile in1914. Manager, Harlow H. Curtice created popular new models including the Special and the Roadmaster. Buick sales soon flourished. 1911 Model 21 Touring Car on Buickk Test Hill I First Buick Factory V In World War11, Buick built aircraft engines, tanks and A high-compression V-8 engine was introduced in 1953. other military hardware. This post-war period brought And Buick’s famous vertical pillar “toothy” grille, great styling and engineering changes which resultedin (introduced in 1942), became more massive in the increased sales. The torque converter automatic post-war era. transmission, Dynaflow, was introduced in the1948 Roadmaster. Buick’s famous “portholes”came along in 1949. I953 Skylark Motor Trend magazine named the1962 Buick Special, “Car of the Year”. The first productionV-6 engine was 1949 Roadmaster used in the Special. vi 1962 Buick Special Ed Mertz, General Manage&Buick Motor Division Built inside the wallsof the old buildings in Buick’s Our mission is simple: former Flint complex, which formed the cornerstoneof “Buick will provide Premium American Motorcars General Motors, Buick City,is a state-of-the-art backed with services that exceed our customers’ assembly facility with more than200 robots and other expectations, throughout the purchase, ownership, high-tech equipment. It was completed in thefall of service and repurchase experience.” 1985. Buicks are SUBSTANTIAL. Buicks are, and will continueto be, premium American motorcars with smooth power, high performance, rich Buicks are DISTINCTIVE. detail and comfortable accommodation. Buicks are POWERFUL. Buicks are MATURE. vii How to Use this Manual Many people read their owner’s manual from beginning to end when they first receive their new vehicle. This ~ will help you learn about the features and controls for your vehicle. In this manual, you’ll find that pictures and words work togetherto explain things quickly. Index In the gray caution area, we tellyou what the hazardis. A good place to lookfor what you needis the Index in Then we tell you what todo to help avoidor reduce the the back of the manual. It’s an alphabetical of list all hazard. Please read these cautions.If you don’t,YOU or that’s in the manual, and the page number where you’ll others couldbe hurt. find it. Safety Warnings and Symbols You will also find a circle with a slash throughit in I You will find a number of safety cautions in this book. this book. We use a box with gray background and the word 1 CAUTION to tell you about things that could hurt youif This safety symbol means you were to ignore the warning. “Don’t,’’ “Don’t dothis,” or “Don’t let this happen.’’ 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, andit could be costly. But the notice will tell you what to do to help avoid the damage. When you readother manuals, you might see NOTICE: CAUTION and NOTICE warningsin different colors or These mean there is something that in different words. couId damage your vehicle. You’ll also see warning labels on your vehicle. They use yellow for cautions, blue for notices andthe words CAUTION or NOTICE. iX CAUSTIC L I Four-Way ManuaI Seat - Driver's Seat Only Power Seat (Option) (Option) The power seat control is located on the side of the seat. Front Control (F): Raise the front of the seatby holding the switch up. Hold the switch down to lower the front of the seat. If you have this option, youhave two levers under the front edge of the seat. The lever near the outer side of Center Control (C): Move the seat forward or back by the seat (A) unlocks the seat allowing it to slide forward holding the control to the front or back. Raise or lower and back. The lever on the right (B) allows you to tilt the seat by holding the control up or down. the seat up and down. Rear Control (R):Raise the rear of the seat by holding the switch up. Hold the switch downto lower therear of the seat. 1-2 Reclining Front Seatbacks To adjust the seatback, lift thelever on the outer side of the seat and move theseatback to where you want it. Release the lever to lockthe seatback. Pull up on the lever and the seat will go to an upright position. 1-3 I But don’t havea seatback reclined if your vehicle is moving. 1-4 Head Restraints To fold a frontseatback forward, push the seatback Slide the head restraint up or downso that the top of the toward therear as you lift restraint is closest to the top of your ears. This position . ,. this latch. Thenthe seatback reduces the chance of a neck in$&in-a'crash. ' " will fold forward. The latch Front Seatback Latches (2-Door Models) must be downfor the seat to work properly. The front seatback folds forward to let people get into the back seat.

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