User manual BUICK LESABRE 1998

[. . . ] uwe1 The 1998 Buick LeSabre Owner's Manual 1-1 2-1 Seats and Restraint Systems This section tells you how to use your seats and safety belts properly. It also explains the "SRS" system. Features and Controls This section explains how to start and operate your vehicle. 3- 1 4-1 Comfort Controls and Audio Systems This section tells you how to adjust the ventilation and comfort controls and how to operate your audio system. 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 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 loolung good. 71 8- 1 Maintenance Schedule This section tells you when to perform vehicle maintenance and what fluids and lubricants to use. 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 8-8. 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. r am- We support voluntary technician certification. p?J CERTIFIED GENERAL MOTORS, GM, the GM Emblem, BUICK, the BUICK Emblemand the name LESABRE are registered trademarks of General Motors Corporation. [. . . ] For example, if drivers' are impaired at BAC levels above 0. 05 percent. the same person drank three double' martinis ounces (3 of or 90 ml of liquor each) within an hour, the person's Statistics show that the chancebeing in a, collision of BAC would be close to 0. 12 percent. A person who increases sharply for drivers who have a BAC 0. 05 percent-orabove. A driver with BAC level of a will consumes food before or during drillking have a just 0. 06 percent has doubled his or her chance of having a somewhat lower BAC level. At a BAC level 0. 10 percent, the chance There is a gender difference, too. Women generally have this driver having a collision12 . times greater; at a is a lower relative percentage body water than men. of is level of 0. 15 percent, the chance 25 times greater! . , '' The body takes aboutan hour torid itself of the alcohol in one drink. No amount of coffee or numberof cold showers will speed that "I'll be careful" isn't the up. What there's an emergency, a need to if take sudden action, as when a child darts into the street?A person with even a moderate BAC might not be able to react quickly enough to avoid the collision. There's something else about drinking and driving that many people don'tknow. Medical research shows that alcohol in aperson's system can make crash injuries worse, especially injuries to the brain, spinal cord or heart. This means that when anyone who has been drinking -- driver or passenger-- is in a crash, that person's chance of being killed or permanently disabled is higher than the person had not if been drinking. Drinking and then drivingis verydangerous. Your reflexes, perceptions, attentiveness and judgment canbe affected by even a small amount of alcohol. You can have a serious or even fatal collision if you drive after drinking. Please don't drink anddrive or ridewith a driver who has been drinking. Ride home in a cab; or if you're with a group, designate a driver who will not drink. -- -- 4-5 Control of a Vehicle You have three systems that make your vehiclewhere go and you want it to go. They are the brakes, the steering the accelerator. All three systems have to do their work at the places where the tiresmeet the road. Braking Braking action involves perception time and reaction time. First, you have to decide to push on the brake pedal. Then you have tobring up your foot and do it. Average reaction time is about 3/4of a second. It might be less one driver with and as long as two or three seconds or more with another. [. . . ] 2-41 OnReminder 2-43 Perimeter Lighting . Leaving Your Vehicle with the Engine Running . 2-68 Engine Coolant Temperature Warning . 2-59 Traction Control System Warning . [. . . ]