airbag CADILLAC ESCALADE EXT 2007 3.G Owners Manual

Seats and Restraint Systems....................... 7
Front Seats
.............................................. 8
Rear Seats
............................................. 16
Safety Belts
............................................ 18
Child Restraints
...................................... 39
Airbag System
........................................ 67
Restraint System Check
......................... 86
Features and Controls................................ 89
Keys
....................................................... 91
Doors and Locks
.................................. 101
Windows
............................................... 115
Theft-Deterrent Systems
....................... 117
Starting and Operating Your Vehicle
..... 123
Mirrors
.................................................. 143
OnStar
®System
................................... 152
Universal Home Remote System
.......... 154
Storage Areas
...................................... 165
Sunroof
................................................ 187Instrument Panel....................................... 189
Instrument Panel Overview
................... 192
Climate Controls
................................... 219
Warning Lights, Gages, and
Indicators
.......................................... 225
Driver Information Center (DIC)
............ 243
Audio System(s)
................................... 267
Driving Your Vehicle................................. 321
Your Driving, the Road, and
Your Vehicle
..................................... 322
Towing
................................................. 378
Service and Appearance Care.................. 393
Service
................................................. 396
Fuel
...................................................... 399
Checking Things Under the Hood
......... 404
All-Wheel Drive
..................................... 443
Rear Axle
............................................. 444
Front Axle
............................................ 446
2007 Cadillac Escalade EXT Owner ManualM
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Front Seats..................................................... 8
Power Seats................................................. 8
Power Lumbar.............................................. 9
Heated Seats.............................................. 10
Heated and Cooled Seats........................... 11
Memory Seat, Mirrors, and Pedals.............. 12
Power Reclining Seatbacks......................... 14
Head Restraints.......................................... 15
Rear Seats.................................................... 16
Rear Seat Operation................................... 16
Safety Belts.................................................. 18
Safety Belts: They Are for Everyone........... 18
Questions and Answers About Safety Belts.... 22
How to Wear Safety Belts Properly............. 23
Driver Position............................................. 23
Shoulder Belt Height Adjustment................. 30
Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy.............. 31
Right Front Passenger Position................... 31
Rear Seat Passengers................................ 32
Rear Safety Belt Comfort Guides................ 35
Safety Belt Pretensioners............................ 38
Safety Belt Extender................................... 38
Child Restraints............................................ 39
Older Children............................................. 39
Infants and Young Children......................... 42Child Restraint Systems.............................. 45
Where to Put the Restraint.......................... 50
Lower Anchors and Tethers for
Children (LATCH).................................... 51
Securing a Child Restraint in a Rear
Seat Position........................................... 60
Securing a Child Restraint in the Right
Front Seat Position.................................. 62
Airbag System.............................................. 67
Where Are the Airbags?.............................. 70
When Should an Airbag Inate?.................. 73
What Makes an Airbag Inate?................... 75
How Does an Airbag Restrain?................... 76
What Will You See After an Airbag
Inates?................................................... 76
Passenger Sensing System......................... 78
Servicing Your Airbag-Equipped Vehicle...... 84
Adding Equipment to Your
Airbag-Equipped Vehicle.......................... 85
Restraint System Check............................... 86
Checking the Restraint Systems.................. 86
Replacing Restraint System Parts
After a Crash........................................... 87
Section 1 Seats and Restraint Systems
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or the safety belts!
With safety belts, you slow down as the vehicle
does. You get more time to stop. You stop
over more distance, and your strongest bones
take the forces. That is why safety belts
make such good sense.
Questions and Answers About
Safety Belts
Q:Will I be trapped in the vehicle after an
accident if I am wearing a safety belt?
A:Youcouldbe — whether you are wearing a
safety belt or not. But you can unbuckle a
safety belt, even if you are upside down. And
your chance of being conscious during and
after an accident, so youcanunbuckle and get
out, ismuchgreater if you are belted.
Q:If my vehicle has airbags, why should I
have to wear safety belts?
A:Airbags are in many vehicles today and will be
in most of them in the future. But they are
supplemental systems only; so they workwith
safety belts — not instead of them. Every
airbag system ever offered for sale has
required the use of safety belts. Even if you are
in a vehicle that has airbags, you still have to
buckle up to get the most protection. That is
true not only in frontal collisions, but especially
in side and other collisions.
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Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy
Safety belts work for everyone, including pregnant
women. Like all occupants, they are more likely
to be seriously injured if they do not wear
safety belts.
A pregnant woman should wear a lap-shoulder
belt, and the lap portion should be worn as low as
possible, below the rounding, throughout the
pregnancy.The best way to protect the fetus is to protect the
mother. When a safety belt is worn properly, it
is more likely that the fetus will not be hurt
in a crash. For pregnant women, as for anyone,
the key to making safety belts effective is wearing
them properly.
Right Front Passenger Position
To learn how to wear the right front passenger’s
safety belt properly, seeDriver Position on
page 23.
The right front passenger’s safety belt works the
same way as the driver’s safety belt — except
for one thing. If you ever pull the shoulder portion
of the belt out all the way, you will engage the
child restraint locking feature which may turn off
the passenger’s frontal airbag. If this happens, just
let the belt go back all the way and start again.
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{CAUTION:
Children who are up against, or very close
to, any airbag when it inates can be
seriously injured or killed. Airbags plus
lap-shoulder belts offer protection for
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CAUTION: (Continued)
adults and older children, but not for
young children and infants. Neither the
vehicle’s safety belt system nor its airbag
system is designed for them. Young
children and infants need the protection
that a child restraint system can provide.
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Where to Put the Restraint
Accident statistics show that children are safer if
they are restrained in the rear rather than the front
seat. We recommend that child restraints be
secured in a rear seat, including an infant riding
in a rear-facing infant seat, a child riding in a
forward-facing child seat and an older child riding in
a booster seat.
Your vehicle has a rear seat that will accommodate
a rear-facing child restraint. A label on your sun
visor says, “Never put a rear-facing child seat
in the front.” This is because the risk to the
rear-facing child is so great, if the airbag deploys.{CAUTION:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can
be seriously injured or killed if the right
front passenger’s airbag inates. This is
because the back of the rear-facing child
restraint would be very close to the
inating airbag. Be sure the airbag is off
before using a rear-facing child restraint in
the passenger’s position.
Even though the passenger sensing
system is designed to turn off the
passenger’s frontal airbag if the system
detects a rear-facing child restraint, no
system is fail-safe, and no one can
guarantee that an airbag will not deploy
under some unusual circumstance, even
though it is turned off. We recommend that
rear-facing child restraints be secured in
the rear seat, even if the airbag is off.
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To remove the child restraint, unbuckle the
vehicle’s safety belt and let it go back all the way.
The safety belt will move freely again and be ready
to work for an adult or larger child passenger. If the
top tether is attached to the top tether anchor,
disconnect it.
Securing a Child Restraint in the
Right Front Seat Position
Your vehicle has a right front passenger’s
airbag. A rear seat is a safer place to secure a
forward-facing child restraint. SeeWhere to
Put the Restraint on page 50.In addition, your vehicle has a passenger sensing
system. The passenger sensing system is
designed to turn off the right front passenger’s
frontal airbag when an infant in a rear-facing infant
seat or a small child in a forward-facing child
restraint or booster seat is detected. See
Passenger Sensing System on page 78and
Passenger Airbag Status Indicator on page 230
for more information on this including important
safety information.
A label on your sun visor says, “Never put a
rear-facing child seat in the front.” This is because
the risk to the rear-facing child is so great, if the
airbag deploys.
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{CAUTION:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can
be seriously injured or killed if the right
front passenger’s airbag inates. This is
because the back of the rear-facing child
restraint would be very close to the
inating airbag. Be sure the airbag is off
before using a rear-facing child restraint
in the passenger’s position.
Even though the passenger sensing
system is designed to turn off the
passenger’s frontal airbag if the system
detects a rear-facing child restraint, no
system is fail-safe, and no one can
guarantee that an airbag will not deploy
under some unusual circumstance, even
though it is turned off. We recommend
that rear-facing child restraints be secured
in the rear seat, even if the airbag is off.If you need to secure a forward-facing child
restraint in the right front seat position, move the
seat as far back as it will go before securing
the forward-facing child restraint. SeePower Seats
on page 8.
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If your child restraint has the LATCH system,
seeLower Anchors and Tethers for Children
(LATCH) on page 51.
There is no top tether anchor at the right front
seating position. Do not secure a child seat in this
position if a national or local law requires that
the top tether be anchored or if the instructions
that come with the child restraint say that the
top tether must be anchored. SeeLower Anchors
and Tethers for Children (LATCH) on page 51
if the child restraint has a top tether.You will be using the lap-shoulder belt to secure
the child restraint in this position. Be sure to follow
the instructions that came with the child restraint.
Secure the child in the child restraint when and as
the instructions say.
1. Your vehicle has a right front passenger’s
frontal airbag. SeePassenger Sensing System
on page 78. We recommend that rear-facing
child restraints be secured in a rear seat, even
if the airbag is off. If your child restraint is
forward-facing, move the seat as far back as it
will go before securing the child restraint in this
seat. SeePower Seats on page 8.
When the passenger sensing system has
turned off the right front passenger’s frontal
airbag, the off indicator in the passenger airbag
status indicator should light and stay lit when
you turn the ignition to RUN or START. See
Passenger Airbag Status Indicator on
page 230.
2. Put the child restraint on the seat.
3. Pick up the latch plate, and run the lap and
shoulder portions of the vehicle’s safety belt
through or around the restraint. The child
restraint instructions will show you how.
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6. To tighten the belt, push down on the child
restraint, pull the shoulder portion of the belt
to tighten the lap portion of the belt, and
feed the shoulder belt back into the retractor.
If you are using a forward-facing child
restraint, you may nd it helpful to use your
knee to push down on the child restraint
as you tighten the belt. You should not be able
to pull more of the belt from the retractor
once the lock has been set.7. Push and pull the child restraint in different
directions to be sure it is secure.
8. If the airbag is off, the off indicator will come
on and stay on when the key is turned to
RUN or START.
If a child restraint has been installed and the on
indicator is lit, turn the vehicle off. Remove
the child restraint from the vehicle and reinstall
the child restraint.
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