CADILLAC SEVILLE 1997 4.G Owners 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 "SIR" system.
Features and Controls
This section explains how to start and operate your Cadiliac.
Comfort Controls and. Audio Systems
This section tells you how to acljust the ventilation and comfort controls and how to operate your audio system.
Your Driving and the Road
Here you'll find helpful information 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 Cadillac running properly a1~1 loolting good.
Customer Assistance Information
This section tells you how to contact Cadillac for assistance and how tu get service and owner publications.
It also gives
you information on "Reporting Safety Defects" on pase 7- 1 I?.
Index
Here's an alphabetical listing of almost every subject in this manurd. You can use it to quickly find
something you want to read.
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CADILLAC, the CADILLAC Emblem and the name
SEVILLE are registered trademarks of General Motors
Corporation.
This manual includes the latest
information at the time it
was printed. We rcserve the right to make changes in the
prodnct after that
tirile without further notice. For
vehicles first sold in Canada, substitute the name
"General Motors of Canada Limited" for Cadillac Motor
Car Division whenever it appears
in this manual.
Please keep
this manual in your Cadillac. so it will be
there if you ever need it when you're on the road. If you
scll the vehicle, please leave this manual in it so the new
owner can use it.
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CERTIFICATION THROUGtd
AUTOMOTIVE
Flaton?l Institute for
SERVICE EXCELLENCE
We support voluntary
technician certification.
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procurer un exernplaire de ce guide en franpis chez
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ou au:
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PENALTY OF LEADERSHIP
IN every field of human endeavor. he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. IWhether the leadership be
vested
in a man or in a manufactured product. emulation and envy are ever at wnr-k. flh art, in literature, in music, in industry. the
reward and the punishment
are always the same. IThe reward is widespread recognition: the punishment, fiercc denial and
detraction. ¶When
a man's work becvrnes a standard for the whole world: it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious
few.
¶If his work be merely mediocre. he will hc lefr sev~rdy aPr:lne - if he achieve a masterpiece. it will set a million tongues
a-wagging.
jealousy does not prouude its foriced zongue at the artist wtwproduces a commonplace painting. TWhatsoever you
write.
or paint, or play, or sing. ur build. no onc :t~Ill wive tu su:p&$s. 0: LC! s.imder you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of
genius. l'lLo11g. long after a grezu worlc or a good ~d-has beerti done, those ;who are disappointed or envious continue to cry out that it
can not be done. YSpiteful little mites in the dornaiil of x!'! were iaisatrtgitinst our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big
world had acclaimed him its greutest artistic gerlius.
?1Multitudrs i1cxke.d to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner.
while the little group
of those whom he had dethroned md dibp1a&d1@a~ed angrily that he v;as no musician at all. ilThe little world
continued to protest that Fulton ccwld never build
r! steaznhaar. while e;hd big world ibtkeil to the river banks to see his boat steam
by. T/The leader is assailed because
he is 2: leader. and the eikft to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. flFailing to
equal
or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy - but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives
to supplant. !]There is nothing new in this. %t is as old as the world and as uid us the human passions -envy, fear, greed, ambition.
and the desire to surpass. lhnd
it all avails notl~.iin.g. ?If the .leader tmiy leads, he remains - the leader. ?Master-poet,
master-painter. master-workman, each
in his turn is assailed. and each holds his laurels through the ages. flThat which is good or
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great makes itself known. no matter how loud the clurnor of denial. YThat which deserves to live lives.
(Cadillac Motor Car Co. Detroit, Mich.)
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founder
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Cudillac, stands
beside the
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was built
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evaluate the
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Few automobiles are fortunate enough to have the rich heritage
that ..isr
Ca@llac. The name Cadillac is appropriately that of
Antoirie &‘La Mothe Cadillac, the French military commander
who founded the city of Detroit in
1701. What better name for
the oldest automobile manufacturer in Detroit.
Henry M. Leland, known as the master of precision,
initiated his precision manufacturing techniques at the
founding
of Cadillac in 1902. His exacting standards
prompted the motto by which Cadillac has been guided
over the years
- “Craftsmanship A Creed - Accuracy
A Law.”
The introduction of the first four cylinder engine in 1905
led the industry and enabled Cadillacs to travel at speeds
up to
50 mph.
For attention to quality and innovation, the Royal
Automobile Club of England awarded the prestigious
Dewar Trophy to Cadillac twice . . . first in 1908 for
achieving perfect interchangeability
of parts and again
for introducing the electric self starter, electric lighting
and ignition system on
19 12 models. Cadillac is the
only American manufacturer to win this honor and
the only manufacturer in the world to win
it twice. As commonplace
as standardized parts are today, in 1908
parts were still individually hand fitted both in
production and service.
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and was the cornerstone of modem assembly line
production. From this achievement evolved the
reference to Cadillac
as “Standard of the World.”
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In 1909 Cadillac was purchased by the then new
General Motors Corporation.
Convenience, cleanliness and all-weather comfort were
greatly enhanced in
1910 when Cadillac became the first
manufacturer to offer closed bodies as standard equipment.
“The Penalty of Leadership” first appeared in the
January
2, 19 15 issue of The Saturday Evening Post as an
expression of the Cadillac commitment to leadership,
quality
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finest documents ever written. It was published following
the introduction
of the first production V8 engine,
which
was standard in all Cadillacs beginning with the
19 1
5 model.
Many Cadillac “firsts” have followed over the years,
including the synchro-mech clashless transmission, a
nationwide comprehensive service policy, security plate
a stylist (1927 LaSalleMarley Earl). The ’30s witnessed
production
of the powerful, smooth and quiet V12 and
V16 engines. The crisp, contemporary lines of the 1938
60 Special series ushered in a new era in styling.
3 olass, chrome plating and the first car to be designed by
VI 6 Engine
During World War 11, shortly after Pearl Harbor,
Cadillac discontinued car prgduction
for the first time
since 1902 in order to construct light tanks, combat
vehicles and internal parts for Allison
V17 10 engines.
Two Cadillac V8 engines and Hydra-Matic
transnlissions were used
in each M5AI and M24 tanks.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine There are, to be sure, many ways to describe the
superlative motor car pictured. "Beauty,"
"majesty," "brilliance"
- all apply, in their
fullest meaning, to this new Cadillac. And yet.
from this wonderful vocabulary, we have
selected "elegance"
as the word that most fully
characterizes the Cadillac
of 1960. The car's
beautiful, clean-lined styling
is certainly elegant
beyond compare.
Its new interior luxury
provides a feeling of elegance that can be sensed
nowhere else
in the world of motor cars. And
even its new performance
- smcioth. quiet and
effortless
- might be summarized as "elegance
in motion.'' Once
you have seen and driven it for
yourself, we think you will agree that the word is
"elegance"
- and that the car is Cadillac!
CADLLAC MOTOR CAR Dn'iSION. GENERAL hlOTORS C~3RpoK4TlON

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advances such as air suspension, memory seat,
automatic electric door locks. transistor radio,
a brushecl
stainless
steel roof and low profile tires.
For the 1948 model, Cadillac introduced the legendary
tail fin which once more set the trend in automotive
styling for nearly two decades. This
was closely
followed with the two door hardtop Coupe DeVille and
the industry's first modern overhead valve, high
compression
V8 engine on the 1949 model.
Engineering innovations, conveniences
and styling
dominated the
'50s and '60s. Cruise control, automatic
climate control, tilt
and telescoping steering wheels,
twilight sentinel and
four door hard tops all debuted in
these years.
Ir, 1557 the Eldorado Brougham featured
1957 Eldorado Brougham
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The Eldorado, introduced in 1953, was redesigned for
1967
as the first front wheel drive personal luxury car.
The
472 cu. in. V8 engine used in all Cadillacs in I568
and 1965 was enlarged to SO0 cu. in. for all 1970
through 1976 Eldorados. The Track Master
conlputerized skid control braking system option
debuted
on 1970 Eldorados.
A driver and passenger Air Cushion Restraint
system (air bag) was available on
all 1974. I975 and
1976 Cadillacs.
Analog Electronic
Fuel Injection was available, on
1975 Cadillacs and standard 011 the new international
size
1976 Seville. In 1978, the Trip Computer option
incorporated the first on-board microprocessor.
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