GMC 2007 Yukon XL User manual

Seats and Restraint Systems ....................... 7
Front Seats .............................................. 9
Rear Seats ............................................. 17
Safety Belts ............................................ 37
Child Restraints ...................................... 60
Airbag System ........................................ 90
Restraint System Check ....................... 108
Features and Controls .............................. 111
Keys ..................................................... 113
Doors and Locks .................................. 122
Windows ............................................... 132
Theft-Deterrent Systems ....................... 134
Starting and Operating Your Vehicle ....... 139
Mirrors .................................................. 157
OnStar
®
System ................................... 162
Universal Home Remote System .......... 166
Storage Areas ...................................... 177
Sunroof ................................................ 184
Instrument Panel ....................................... 187
Instrument Panel Overview ................... 190
Climate Controls ................................... 215
Warning Lights, Gages, and
Indicators .......................................... 226
Driver Information Center (DIC) ............ 246
Audio System(s) ................................... 274
Driving Your Vehicle ................................. 343
Your Driving, the Road, and
Your Vehicle ..................................... 344
Towing ................................................. 400
Service and Appearance Care .................. 417
Service ................................................. 420
Fuel ...................................................... 423
Checking Things Under the Hood ......... 428
All-Wheel Drive ..................................... 470
Rear Axle ............................................. 470
Front Axle ............................................ 472
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Headlamp Aiming ................................. 473
Bulb Replacement ................................ 476
Windshield Wiper Blade Replacement .... 479
Tires ..................................................... 481
Appearance Care .................................. 526
Vehicle Identification ............................. 536
Electrical System .................................. 536
Capacities and Specifications ................ 545
Maintenance Schedule .............................. 547
Maintenance Schedule .......................... 548
Customer Assistance Information ............. 569
Customer Assistance and Information ..... 570
Reporting Safety Defects ...................... 588
Index .......................................................... 591
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GENERAL MOTORS, GM, the GM Emblem,
GMC, the GMC Truck Emblem, and the names
YUKON and DENALI 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 after that time without further
notice. For vehicles first sold in Canada, substitute
the name “General Motors of Canada Limited”
for GMC whenever it appears in this manual.
This manual describes features that may be
available in this model, but your vehicle may not
have all of them. For example, more than one
entertainment system may be offered or your
vehicle may have been ordered without a front
passenger or rear seats.
Keep this manual in the vehicle, so it will be there
if it is needed while you are on the road. If the
vehicle is sold, leave this manual in the vehicle.
Canadian Owners
A French language copy of this manual can be
obtained from your dealer or from:
Helm, Incorporated
P.O. Box 07130
Detroit, MI 48207
Litho in U.S.A.
Part No. 15854795 B Second Printing
©
2006 General Motors Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
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How to Use This Manual
Many people read the owner manual from
beginning to end when they first receive their new
vehicle. If this is done, it can help you learn
about the features and controls for the vehicle.
Pictures and words work together in the
owner manual to explain things.
Index
A good place to quickly locate information about
the vehicle is the Index in the back of the manual.
It is an alphabetical list of what is in the manual
and the page number where it can be found.
Safety Warnings and Symbols
There are a number of safety cautions in this
book. We use a box and the word CAUTION to
tell about things that could hurt you if you were to
ignore the warning.
{CAUTION:
These mean there is something that could
hurt you or other people.
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 do not, you or others could be hurt.
You will also find a
circle with a slash
through it in this book.
This safety symbol
means “Do Not,”
“Do Not do this” or
“Do Not let this happen.”
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Vehicle Damage Warnings
Also, in this manual you will find these notices:
Notice: These mean there is something
that could damage your vehicle.
A notice tells about something that can damage
the vehicle. Many times, this damage would not be
covered by your vehicle’s warranty, and it could
be costly. But the notice will tell what to do to help
avoid the damage.
When you read other manuals, you might see
CAUTION and NOTICE warnings in different colors
or in different words.
There are also warning labels on the vehicle.
They use the same words, CAUTION or NOTICE.
Vehicle Symbols
The vehicle has components and labels that use
symbols instead of text. Symbols are shown along
with the text describing the operation or information
relating to a specific component, control, message,
gage, or indicator.
If you need help figuring out a specific name of a
component, gage, or indicator, reference the
following topics:
•Seats and Restraint Systems in Section 1
•Features and Controls in Section 2
•Instrument Panel Overview in Section 3
•Climate Controls in Section 3
•Warning Lights, Gages, and Indicators in
Section 3
•Audio System(s) in Section 3
•Engine Compartment Overview in Section 5
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These are some examples of symbols that may be found on the vehicle:
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Front Seats ..................................................... 9
Power Seats ................................................. 9
Power Lumbar ............................................. 10
Heated Seats .............................................. 11
Memory Seat, Mirrors, and Pedals .............. 12
Power Reclining Seatbacks ......................... 14
Head Restraints .......................................... 16
Rear Seats .................................................... 17
Heated Seats .............................................. 17
60/40 Split Bench Seat (Second Row) ........ 18
Bucket Seats (Second Row) ........................ 25
Third Row Seat ........................................... 32
Safety Belts .................................................. 37
Safety Belts: They Are for Everyone ........... 37
Questions and Answers About
Safety Belts ............................................. 41
How to Wear Safety Belts Properly ............. 42
Driver Position ............................................. 42
Shoulder Belt Height Adjustment ................. 50
Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy .............. 51
Right Front Passenger Position ................... 51
Center Front Passenger Position ................. 52
Rear Seat Passengers ................................ 53
Rear Safety Belt Comfort Guides ................ 56
Safety Belt Pretensioners ............................ 59
Safety Belt Extender ................................... 60
Child Restraints ............................................ 60
Older Children ............................................. 60
Infants and Young Children ......................... 63
Child Restraint Systems .............................. 67
Where to Put the Restraint .......................... 72
Lower Anchors and Tethers for
Children (LATCH) .................................... 73
Securing a Child Restraint in a
Rear Seat Position ................................... 83
Securing a Child Restraint in the
Center Front Seat Position ....................... 85
Securing a Child Restraint in the
Right Front Seat Position ......................... 86
Section 1 Seats and Restraint Systems
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Airbag System .............................................. 90
Where Are the Airbags? .............................. 93
When Should an Airbag Inflate? .................. 96
What Makes an Airbag Inflate? ................... 98
How Does an Airbag Restrain? ................... 99
What Will You See After an
Airbag Inflates? ...................................... 100
Passenger Sensing System ....................... 101
Servicing Your Airbag-Equipped
Vehicle ................................................... 106
Adding Equipment to Your
Airbag-Equipped Vehicle ........................ 107
Restraint System Check ............................. 108
Checking the Restraint Systems ................ 108
Replacing Restraint System Parts
After a Crash ......................................... 109
Section 1 Seats and Restraint Systems
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Front Seats
Power Seats
The power seat controls are located on the
outboard side of the front seats.
•Move the seat forward or rearward by sliding
the control forward or rearward.
•Raise or lower the front part of the seat
cushion by moving the front of the control up
or down.
•Raise or lower the rear part of the seat
cushion by moving the rear of the control up
or down.
•Raise or lower the entire seat by moving the
entire control up or down.
The power reclining seatback control is located
behind the power seat control on the outboard side
of the seats. See Power Reclining Seatbacks on
page 14.
Your vehicle has a memory function which allows
seat settings to be saved and recalled. See
Memory Seat, Mirrors, and Pedals on page 12.
Driver’s Seat with Power Seat Control, Power
Recline, and Power Lumbar shown
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Power Lumbar
The controls used to operate the power lumbar
feature are located on the outboard side of
the seats.
•To increase lumbar support, press and hold
the front of the control.
•To decrease lumbar support, press and hold
the rear of the control.
•To raise the height of the support, press and
hold the top of the control.
•To lower the height of the support, press and
hold the bottom of the control.
Let go of the control when the lower seatback
reaches the desired level of support.
Your vehicle has a memory function which allows
seat settings to be saved and recalled. See
Memory Seat, Mirrors, and Pedals on page 12
for more information.
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.
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Heated Seats
The seats have the
heated seat feature,
the buttons used
to control this feature
are located on the
front doors near
the door handle.
I(Heated Seatback): Press this button to turn
on the heated seatback.
The light on the button will come on to indicate
that the feature is working. Press the button
to cycle through the temperature settings of high,
medium, and low and to turn the heat to the
seatback off. Indicator lights below the button show
the level of heat selected: three for high, two for
medium, and one for low.
J(Heated Seat and Seatback): Press this
button to turn on the heated seat and seatback.
The light on the button will come on to indicate that
the feature is working. Press the button to cycle
through the temperature settings of high, medium,
and low and to turn the heat to the seat off.
Indicator lights above the button will show the level
of heat selected: three for high, two for medium,
and one for low.
The heated seats will be canceled ten seconds
after the ignition is turned off. If you want to
use the heated seat feature after you restart your
vehicle, you will need to press the appropriate
heated seat or seatback button again.
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Memory Seat, Mirrors, and Pedals
Your vehicle has the memory package.
The controls for this
feature are located on
the driver’s door
panel, and are used to
program and recall
memory settings for the
driver’s seat, outside
mirrors, and the
adjustable throttle and
brake pedal feature
if your vehicle has it.
To save your positions in memory, do the following:
1. Adjust the driver’s seat, including the
seatback recliner and lumbar, both outside
mirrors, and the throttle and brake pedals to a
comfortable position.
See Outside Power Foldaway Mirrors on
page 160 and Adjustable Throttle and Brake
Pedal on page 143 for more information.
Not all mirrors will have the ability to save and
recall the mirror positions.
2. Press and hold button 1 until two beeps let
you know that the position has been stored.
A second seating, mirror, and throttle and brake
pedal position can be programmed by repeating
the above steps and pressing button 2.
To recall the memory positions, the vehicle must be
in PARK (P). Press and release either button 1 or
button 2 corresponding to the desired driving
position. The seat, outside mirrors, and adjustable
throttle and brake pedals will move to the position
previously stored. You will hear a single beep.
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If you use the remote keyless entry transmitter to
enter your vehicle and the remote recall memory
feature is on, automatic seat, mirror, and
adjustable pedal movement will occur. See
“MEMORY SEAT RECALL” under DIC Vehicle
Customization (With DIC Buttons) on page 264 for
more information.
To stop recall movement of the memory feature at
any time, press one of the power seat controls,
memory buttons, power mirror buttons, or
adjustable pedal switch.
If something has blocked the driver’s seat and/or
the adjustable pedals while recalling a memory
position, the driver’s seat and/or the adjustable
pedals recall may stop working. If this happens,
press the appropriate control for the area that
is not recalling for two seconds, after the
obstruction is removed. Then try recalling the
memory position again by pressing the appropriate
memory button. If the memory position is still
not recalling, see your dealer for service.
Easy Exit Seat
The control for this feature is located on the
driver’s door panel between buttons 1 and 2.
With the vehicle in PARK (P), the exit position
can be recalled by pressing the exit button.
You will hear a single beep. The driver’s seat will
move back.
If the easy exit seat feature is on in the Driver
Information Center (DIC), automatic seat
movement will occur when the key is removed
from the ignition. See “EASY EXIT SEAT” under
DIC Vehicle Customization (With DIC Buttons)
on page 264 for more information.
Further programming for the memory seat feature
can be done using the DIC. You can select or
not select the following:
•The automatic easy exit seat feature
•The remote memory seat recall feature
For programming information, see DIC Vehicle
Customization (With DIC Buttons) on page 264.
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Power Reclining Seatbacks
The controls for the power reclining seatback are
located on the outboard side of the front seats
behind the power seat control.
•To recline the seatback, tilt the top of the
control rearward.
•To bring the seatback forward, tilt the top of
the control forward.
Driver’s Seat with Power Seat Control, Power
Recline, and Power Lumbar shown
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{CAUTION:
Sitting in a reclined position when your
vehicle is in motion can be dangerous.
Even if you buckle up, your safety belts
cannot do their job when you are reclined
like this.
The shoulder belt cannot do its job. In a
crash, you could go into it, receiving neck
or other injuries.
The lap belt cannot do its job either. In a
crash the belt could go up over your
abdomen. The belt forces would be there,
not at your pelvic bones. This could cause
serious internal injuries.
CAUTION: (Continued)
CAUTION: (Continued)
For proper protection when the vehicle is
in motion, have the seatback upright.
Then sit well back in the seat and wear
your safety belt properly.
Do not have a seatback reclined if your vehicle
is moving.
Your vehicle has a memory function which
allows seat settings to be saved and recalled.
See Memory Seat, Mirrors, and Pedals on
page 12.
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Head Restraints
Adjust the head restraint so that the top of the
restraint is at the same height as the top of
the occupant’s head. This position reduces the
chance of a neck injury in a crash.
Pull the head restraint
up to raise it. To lower
the head restraint,
press the release
button (A), located on
the top of the seatback,
while you push the
head restraint down.
The front seats may have head restraints that also
tilt forward and rearward.
To tilt the head restraint, grasp the top of the
restraint while pressing the button (B), located on
the inboard side of the head restraint, and
move it forward or rearward until the desired
locking position is reached. Try to move the head
restraint after the button is released to make
sure that it is locked in place.
The second row seats may have head rests that
can be adjusted up and down, but they do not tilt.
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Rear Seats
Heated Seats
The rear seats have the
heated seat feature, the
buttons used to control
this feature are located
on the Rear Seat
Audio (RSA) panel.
M(Heated Seat): To heat the seat cushion,
press the button with the heated seat symbol.
A heated seat symbol will be shown in the
RSA display to indicate that the feature is on.
Press the button to cycle through the temperature
settings of high, medium, and low, and to turn
it off. Indicator bars next to the symbol will
designate the level of heat selected: three for
high, two for medium, and one for low.
The heated seats will be canceled ten seconds
after the ignition is turned off. If the vehicle is
restarted, the heated seat button will need to be
pressed again to restart the feature.
Driver’s Side RSA
Heated Seat Button
Only shown
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60/40 Split Bench Seat
(Second Row)
If your vehicle has a 60/40 split bench, the seat(s)
can be folded for additional cargo space or
folded and tumbled for easy entry and exit to the
third row seats, if your vehicle has them. These
seats will have either the manual fold and tumble
feature or the automatic seat release fold and
tumble feature.
Manual Fold and Tumble Feature
Folding and Tumbling the Seat(s)
To fold and tumble the seat, do the following:
1. Make sure that there is nothing under, in front
of, or on the seat.
Notice: Folding a rear seat with the safety
belts still fastened may cause damage to the
seat or the safety belts. Always unbuckle
the safety belts and return them to their normal
stowed position before folding a rear seat.
2. Lift the lever, located on the outboard side of
the seat, to release the seatback.
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The seatback will fold forward automatically.
Leaving the seatback in this position creates a
flat load floor.
If the seatback cannot fold flat, try moving the
front seat forward and/or put the front
seatback in the upright position.
3. Lift the same lever
again to release the
rear of the seat
from the floor.
The seat will
tumble forward.
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Returning the Seat(s) to the Sitting Position
To return the seat to the sitting position, do the
following:
1. Pull the seat down until it latches to the floor.
The seatback cannot be raised if the seat is
not latched to the floor.
{CAUTION:
If the seatback is not locked, it could
move forward in a sudden stop or crash.
That could cause injury to the person
sitting there. Always push and pull on the
seatback to be sure it is locked.
2. Lift the seatback and push it rearward.
Push and pull on the seatback to make sure
it is locked.
{CAUTION:
A safety belt that is improperly routed,
not properly attached, or twisted will not
provide the protection needed in a crash.
The person wearing the belt could be
seriously injured. After raising the rear
seatback, always check to be sure that
the safety belts are properly routed and
attached, and are not twisted.
3. Make sure the safety belt in the center
seating position is not caught between the
two seats and is not twisted.
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