CADILLAC ELDORADO 1997 10.G Owners Manual

Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine TO help avoid hearing loss or damage:
Adjust the volume control to the
lowest setting.
Increase volume slowly until you hear Comfortably
and clearly. A tape player that is not cleaned regularly can cause
reduced
sound quality, mined cassettes or a damaged
mechanism. Cassette tapes should be stored in their
cases away
from contaminants, direct sunlight and
extreme heat. If they aren’t, they may not operate
properly or
may cause failure of the tape player.
Your tape player should be cleaned regularly after every
50 hours of use. Your radio may display CLN or CLEAN
TAPE to indicate that you have used YOLK tape player for
50 hours without resetting the tape clean timer. Each time
the cassette is cleaned, the 50 hour cassette timer should
be reset.
~s is done by holding down the eject button
for three seconds until the TAPE CLEAN message is
displayed. If you notice a reduction in sound quality, try a
known good cassette to see if it is the tape or the tape
player
at fault. If this other cassette has no improvement
in sound quality, clean the tape player.
Cleaning may
be done with a scrubbing action,
non-abrasive cleaning
cassette with pads which scrub the
tape head
as the hubs sf the cle.aner cassette turn. It is
IKXI~ for the cassette to eject while cleaning. Insert the
cassette at least six times to ensure thorough cleaning.
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as
a broken tape. If the cleaning cassette is ejected
immediately from the tape player, follow these steps
for
the TAPE CLEAN OVE
E. Turn the ignition to RUN or ACC.
2. Turn the radio off.
3. Press and hold the SOURCE button for three
seconds. After thee seconds, the tape icon will flash
indicating the cut tape feature
is now turned off.
4. Turn the radio on and insert the cleaning cassette (CX
the CD adapter kit).
5. Eject the tape after the tape player has been cleaned.
When
the cleaning cassette has been ejected, the broken
tape detection feature
is active again.
YOU may also choose a non-scrubbing action, wet-type
cleaner which uses a cassette with
a fabric belt to clean
the
tape head. This type of cleaning cassette will not
eject and, it may
not clean as thoroughly as the
scrubbing
type cleaner.
Cassettes are subject to
wear and the sound quality
may degrade over time. Always make sure the cassette
tape
is in good condition. before YOU have your tape
player serviced. Handle discs carefully. Store
them in their original case:
or other protective cases
and away from direct sunlight
and dust. If the surface
of a disc is soiled, dampen a
clean, soft cloth in a mild, neutral detergent solution anc
clean it, wiping from the center to the edge.
Be sure never to touch the signal surface when handling
discs. Pick up discs by grasping the outer edges or the
edge
of the hole and the outer edge.
Your power antenna will look its best and work
well if it’s cleaned
from time to time. To clean the
antenna mast:
1. Turn on the ignition and radio to raise the antenna.
2. Dampen a clean cloth with mineral spirits or
equivalent solvent.
3. Wipe the cloth over the mast sections, removing
any dirt.
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5. Make the antenna go up and
radio or ignition off and on.
6. Repeat if necessary.
down by turning the
Don't lubricate the
power antenna. Lubrication
could damage it. Before
entering
an automatic car wasn, turn off
your radio to make the power antenna go down.
This will prevent the mast from
possibly getting
damaged.
If the antenna does not go down when
you turn the radio off', it may be damaged or
need
to be cleaned. In either case, lower the
antenna
by hand by carefully pressing the
antenna
down.
If the mast portion of your antenna is damaged, you can
easily replace it. See your dealer for a replacement kit
and follow the instructions in the kit.

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Here you’ll find information about driving on different kinds of roads and in varying weather conditions. We’ve also
included many other useful tips on driving.
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Defensive Driving Drunken Driving
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Braking
Steering
Off-Road Recovery
Passing
Loss of Control
Driving at Night
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Driving in Rain and on Wet Roads
City Driving
Freeway Driving
Before Leaving
on a Long Trip
Highway Hypnosis
Hill and Mountain
Roads
Winter Driving
Loading
Your Vehicle
Towing
a Trailer

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The best advice anyone can give about driving is:
Drive defensively.
Please start
with a very important safety device in your
Cadillac: Buckle up. (See “Safety Belts” in the Index.)
Defensive driving really means “be ready
for anything.”
On city streets, rural roads or freeways, it means
“always expect the unexpected.”
Assume that pedestrians or other drivers
are going to be
careless and make mistakes. Anticipate what they might
do. Be ready
for their mistakes.
Rear-end collisions are about the most preventable
of
accidents. Yet they are common. Allow enough
following distance. It’s the best defensive driving
maneuver, in both city and rural driving. You never
know when the vehicle in front
of you is going to brake
or
turn suddenly.

Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Death and injury associated with drinking and driving is
a national tragedy. It’s
the number one contributor to
the highway death
toll, claiming thousands of victims
every year.
Alcohol affects four things that anyone needs
to drive
a vehicle:
Judgment
Muscular Coordination
Vision Attentiveness.
Police records show that almost half
of all motor
vehicle-related deaths involve alcohol.
In most cases,
these deaths are the result
of someone who was drinking
and driving. In recent years, some 17,000 annual motor
vehicle-related
deaths have been associated with the use
of alcohol, with more than 300,000 people injured.
Many adults
-- by some estimates, nearly half the
adult population -- choose never to drink alcohol, so
they never drive after drinking. For persons under 2 1,
it’s against the lzw in every U.S. state to drink alcohol.
There are good medical, psychological and
developmental reasons for these laws. The
obvious way
to solve this highway safety problem
is for people never to drink alcohol and then drive. But
what if people do? How much is “too much” if the
driver plans to drive?
It’s a lot less than many might
think. Although it depends
on each person and situation,
here
is some general information on the problem.
The
Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) of someone
who is dpinlung depends upon four things:
The amount of alcohol consumed
The drinker’s body weight
The amount
of food that is consumed before and
during drinking
The length
of time it has taken the drinker to
consume the alcohol.
According to the American Medical Association, a
180-lb.
(82 kg) person who drinks three 12-ounce
(355 ml) bottles of beer in an hour will end up with a
BAC of about 0.86 percent. The person would reach the
same BAC by drinking three 4-ounce ( 120 ml) glasses
of wine or three mixed drinks if each had 1- U2 ounces
(45 ml) of a liquor like whiskey, gin or vodka.

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the same person drank three double martinis (3 ounces
or
90 d of liquor each) within an hour, the person’s
BAC would be close to 0.12 percent. A person who
consumes
food just before or during drinking will have a
somewhat lower BAC level.
There is a gender difference, too. Women generally have
a lower relative percentage
of body water than men. Since alcohol
is carried in body water,
this means that a
woman generally will reach
a higher BAC level than a
man of her same body weight when each has the same
number
of drinks.
The law in many U.S. states sets the legal limit at a BAC
of 0.10 percent. In a growing number of US. states, and
throughout Canada, the limit is 0.08 percent. In some
other countries, it’s even lower. The
BAC limit for all
commercial drivers in the United States is
0.04 percent.
The
BAC will be over 0.10 percent after three to six
drinks (in one hour).
Of course, as we’ve seen, it
depends on how much alcohol is in the drinks, and how
quickly the person drinks them.
But the ability
to drive is affected well below a BAC of
0.10 percent. Research
shows that the driving skills of
many people are impaired at a BAC approaching
0.05 percent, and that the effects are worse at night. AB1
drivers are impaired at BAC levels above 0.05 percent.
Statistics show
that the chance of being in a collision
increases sharply for
drivers who have a BAC of
0.05 percent or above. A driver with a BAC level of
0.06 percent has doubled his or her chance of having a
collision. At a BAC level of 0.10 percent, the chance of
this driver having a collision is 12 times greater; at a
level
of 0.15 percent, the chance is 25 times greater!

Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine The body takes about an hour to rid itself of the alcohol
in one drink. No amount of coffee or number of cold
showers will speed that
up. “I’ll be careful” isn’t the
right answer.
What if there’s an emergency, a need to
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’t
know. Medical research shows that
alcohol
in a person’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 hlled or permanently disabled
is higher than if the person had not been drinking.
Drinking and then driving is very dangerous.
Your reflexes, perceptions, attentiveness and
judgment can be affected by even a small amount
of alcohol. YQU can have a serious -- or even
fatal
-- colllision if YOU drive after drinking.
Please don’t drink and drive or ride with a driver
o has been drinking. Wide home in a cab; OF if
you’re with
a group, designate a driver who will
not drink.