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The 1998 Oldsmobile Cutlass Owner’s Manual
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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.
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 helpfulinfomation and tips about the road and how to drive under different conditions.
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.
Service and Appearance Care
Here the manual tells you how to keep your vehicle running properly and looking good.
Maintenance Schedule
This section tells you when to perform vehicle maintenance and what fluids and lubricants to use.
Customer Assistance Information
This section tellsyou how to contact Oldsmobilefor assistance and how to get service and owner publications.
It also gives you information on “Reporting Safety Defects”on page
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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.
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are registered trademarks and the name CUTLASS is a
trademark of General Motors Corporation.
This manual includes the latest information at the timeit
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“General Motors
of Canada Limited”for Oldsmobile
Division whenever it appears in this manual.
Please keep this manual in your vehicle,
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How to Use this Manual
Many people read their owner’s manualfrombeginning
to end when theyfirstreceive their new vehicle.
If you
do this,itwill help you learn aboutthe features and
controls for your vehicle.In this manual, you’llfiid
that pictures and words work together
to explain
things quickly.
Index
A good placeto look for what you needis the Index in
back of the manual. It’s an alphabeticallist of what’sin
the manual, andthe page number where you’llfindit.
Safety Warnings and Symbols
You will find a number of safety cautionsin this book.
We use a box andthe word
CAUTION to tell you
about things that could hurt you
if you wereto ignore
the warning.
These mean there is something that could hurt
you or other people.
In the caution area, we tell you whatthe hazard is. Then
we tell you what to doto help avoidor reduce the
hazard. Please read these cautions.
If you don’t, you or
others could be
hurt.
You will also find a circle
with a slash throughit in
this book. This safety
symbol means “Don’t,”
“Don’t do this” or “Don’t
let this happen.”
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Vehicle Symbols
These are some of the symbols you may find on your vehicle.
For example,
these symbols
areused on an
original battery:
POSSIBLE A
CAUTION
INJURY
PROTECT
EYESBY
@
SHIELDING
CAUSTIC
ACID COULD
BAllERY
CAUSE
BURNS
AVOID
SPARKS OR
FLAM€S
SPARKOR ,\I/,
COULD
FLAME
EXPLODE
BAllERY
These symbols
are important
for you and
your passengers
whenever your
vehicle
is
driven:
UNLOCK Pa
SEAT
BELTS
POWER
WINDOW
.;/
AIR BAG p\
These symbols
have to do with
your lamps:
SIGNALS e
TURN
RUNNING
* 0
DAYTIME -
LAMPS .**
FOG LAMPS $0
These symbols
are on some
of
your controls:
WINDSHIELD
wm Q
WINDSHIELD
DEFROSTER
VENTILATING
* 9
FAN 4
These symbols
are used on
warning and
indicator lights:
COOLANT
TEMP
-
CHARGING I-1
BAlTERY
SYSTEM
BRAKE
(0)
ENGINE OIL e,
PRESSURE
ANTI-LOCK
(@)
BRAKES
Here are some
other symbols
you may see:
FUSE
LIGHTER
m
HORN )tr
SPEAKER
b
FUEL p3
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Section 1 SeatsandRestraintSystems
Here you’ll find information aboutthe seatsin your Oldsmobile 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.
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Seatsand Seat Controls
Safety Belts:They’refor Everyone
Here Are Questions Many People
Ask About
Safety Belts
-- and the Answem
How to Wear SafetyBelts Properly
Driver Position
SafetyBelt Use During Pregnancy
Right Front Passenger Position
Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)
Rear SeatPassengers
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Rear Safety Belt Comfort Guides
for Children and Small Adults
Center Passenger Position
Children
Child Restraints
Larger Children
Safety Belt Extender
CheckingYour Restraint Systems
Replacing Restraint System Parts
After a Crash
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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 control of the vehicle if you try to
adjust a manual driver’s seat while the vehicleis
moving. The sudden movement could
startle and
confuse you, or make you push a pedal when you
don’t want to. Adjust the driver’s seat only when
the vehicleis not moving.
Lift the lever underthe frontseat to unlock it. Slide the
seat to where you want it. Then release the lever and try
to move the seat with
your body, to make sure the seat is
locked into place.
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6-Way Power Seat (If Equipped)
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.
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 fiont
of 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.
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To adjust the seatback,lift the lever on the outer side of
the seat and move the seatback to where you wantit.
Release the lever
and ensure the handle returns to the
original position and the seatbackis securely locked.
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up on the lever and the seat will go to an
upright position.
But don't have a seatback reclined if your vehicle
is moving.
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Head Restraints
Slide the head restraint up or down so that the top of the
.re&@$ is closwt to the top of your ears. This position
ieduceithe chance
of a neck injury in a crash.
Rear Seats
Folding Rear Seat
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To open the folding rear seat, open the trunk and pull
one or both
of the tethers located on the left sideof the
trunk. The left-hand tether will open the larger sideof
the seatback. The right-handtether will open the smaller
side
of the seatback. Oncea tether ispulled, the seatback
can be pushed open through the
tru& or pulled open
from inside the- vehicle.
To close the split folding rearseat,push the seatback up
until
you hear a click. Then pull on the seatback to make
sureit issecure.
Safety Belts: They’re for Everyone
This part of the manual tells you how to use safety belts
properly. It also tellsyou some things you
should 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 arein a crashand
you’re
not wearing a safety belt, your injuries
canbe much worse.You canhit things insidethe
vehicle or be ejected from it.You can be seriously
injuredor killed.
In thesamecrash,you might
not beif you arebuckled up. Alwaysfasten your
safety belt,and check that your passengers’ belts
arefastenedproperly
too.
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Your vehicle has alight
that comes on as a reminder
to buckle up. (See “Safety
Belt Reminder Light’’in
theIndex.)
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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 thatevenbuckled up a person wouldn’t survive.
But most crashes are in between. In manyof them,
people who buckleup can survive and sometimes walk
away. Without belts they could have been badly hurt
orkilled.
After more than
30 years of safety belts in vehicles,
the facts
are clear. In most crashes buckling up does
matter
... a lot!
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Take the simplest vehicle. Suppose it’sjust a seat
on wheels.
Put someone on it.
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