User manual OLDSMOBILE SILHOUETTE 1994

[. . . ] . . . . 8 Customer Assistance Information 9 Index 1 9 SILHOUETTE 94 OWNER'S . . . . . . 249 Includes "Reporting Safety Defects" on page 252 . . . . . . I . 263 Last Page 22586100 Service Station Information . MANUAL First Edition Important Notes About this Manual Please keep this manual in your Oldsmobile, so it will be there if you ever needit when you'reon the road. If you sell the vehicle, please leave this manual in it so the new owner can useit. This manual includes the latest information at the time it was printed. [. . . ] For example, you come over a hill and find a truck stopped in your lane, car a or suddenly pulls out from nowhere, or a child darts out from between parked cars and stops right in frontof you. That's the time for evasiveaction - steering around theproblem, Your Oldsmobile can perform very well in emergencies like these. It is betterto remove as much speed as you can from a possible collision. Then steer around the problem, to theleft or right depending on the space available. If you are holding the steering wheel at the recommended 9 and 3 o'clock positions, you can turnit afull 180 degrees very quickly without removing either hand. But you have to act fast, steer quickly, and just as quickly straighten the wheel once you have avoided the object. The fact that such emergency situations are always possible is agood reason to practice defensive driving at all times and wearsafety belts properly. 139 Your Driving and the Road I Passing The driver of a vehicle aborIt t o pass another ona two-lane highway waits for just the right moment, accelerates, moves around thevehicle ahead, then goes back into theright lane again. Passing another vehicle I on a two-lane highway isa potentially dangerous move, since the passing I vehicle occupies the same lane as You may find sometime that your right oncoming traffic for several seconds. A wheels have dropped off the edge of a miscalculation, an error in judgment, or road onto the shoulder while you're a brief surrender to frustration oranger driving. can suddenly put the passing driver face If the level of the shoulder is only to face with the worst all traffic of slightly belowthe pavement, recovery accidents - the head-on collision. Ease off the accelerator and then, if there is nothing So here aresome tips for passing: "Drive ahead. " Look down the road, in theway, steer so that your vehicle to the sides, and to crossroads for straddles theedge of the pavement. You situations that might affectyour can turn the steering wheel up to% turn passing patterns. If you have any until the right front tire contacts the doubt whatsoever about malting a pavement edge. If you can see a sign up aheadthat might indicate a turn or an intersection, delay your pass. A broken center line usually indicates it's all right to pass (providing the road ahead is clear). Never cross a solid line on your side of the lane or double solid line, even a if the road seems empty of approaching traffic. Do not get too close to thevehicle you want to pass while you're awaiting an opportunity. For one thing, following too closely reduces your area of vision, especially if you're following a larger vehicle. Also, you won't have adequate space if the vehicle ahead suddenly slows or stops. When it looks like a chance to pass is coming up, start to accelerate but stay in theright lane and don't get too close. Time your move so you will be increasing speed as thetime comes to move into theother lane. If the way is clear to pass, you will have a "running start" thatmore than rnaltes up for the distanceyou would lose by dropping back. [. . . ] 178 Specifications & Capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Speed Control (see Cruise Control) Speedometer & Odometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Stains, Removing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Starting Your Vehicleif the Battery is "Dead" (see Jump Starting) Steering In Emergencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Stereo Sound Systems (seeAudio Systems) Storing Your Vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Supplemental Restraint System (SRS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Tachometer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]