tow CHEVROLET AVALANCHE 2002 1.G Owners Manual

Comfort Controls and Audio Systems
Your Driving and the Road
Table of Contents (cont'd)
Defensive Driving
Drunken Driving
Control of a Vehicle
Braking
SteeringDriving Tips for Various Road Conditions
Off-Road Driving
Recreational Vehicle Towing
Loading Your Vehicle
Towing a Trailer Heating and Air Conditioning
Setting the Radio ClockRadio/CD Player
Radio Theft-Deterrent Feature
Hazard Warning Flashers
Jump Starting
Towing Your VehicleEngine Overheating
Changing a Flat Tire
If You're Stuck
Problems on the Road
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Seats and Seat Controls
Manual Front Passenger Seat
If your vehicle has a manual front passenger split bench
seat, you can adjust it with this lever located at the front
of the seat.
Lift the lever at the front of the seat to unlock it.
Using your body, slide the seat to where you want it.
Then, release the lever and try to move the seat with
your body to make sure that the seat is locked into place.
Manual Lumbar Control
If your vehicle has a
lumbar adjustment knob,
you can increase or decrease
lumbar support in an area
of the lower seatback.
The lumbar knob is
located on the outboard
side of the seat cushion.
To increase or decrease support, turn the knob toward
the front or rear of the vehicle.

1-3 Power Seat(s) (If Equipped)
Horizontal Control: If your vehicle has a power seat,
you can adjust it with the horizontal control located on
the outboard edge of the seat(s).

Raise or lower the front of the seat by raising or
lowering the forward edge of the control. Raise or
lower the rear of the seat by raising or lowering the
rear edge of the control.
Move the seat forward or rearward by moving the
whole control toward the front or toward the rear of
the vehicle.

Moving the whole control up or down raises or
lowers the entire seat cushion.
Vertical Control: If your vehicle has power reclining
seats, you can use the vertical control to adjust the angle
of the seatback. Move the reclining front seatback
rearward or forward by moving the control toward the
rear or toward the front of the vehicle. See ªReclining
Seatbacksº in the Index for further information.
Power Lumbar Control (If Equipped)
If you have power
lumbar adjustment,
you can increase or
decrease lumbar support
in the lower seatback.
The control is located
on the outboard side of
the seat cushion.

1-8 Rear Seats
The rear seat is a 60/40 split rear seat that can be folded
to give you more cargo space and access to the folding
midgate. See ªMidgateº in the Index for more
information on operation of the folding midgate.
To fold either side of the seat do the following:
1. Push the rear head restraints all the way down.
Driver's Side
2. Place the seat belt
buckles through the
loops/pockets on the
seatback(s). This way,
the seat belts will be
easy to access when
the seats are returned
to the upright position.
Passenger Side
3. Pull the seat loop located
where the seatback and
seat cushion meet.
The seat will release
and allow you to tilt
it toward the front of
the vehicle.

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4. Grasp the seatback and pull it toward the front of the
vehicle. Push it down until it is flat. You may have to
move the front seats forward slightly to do this.
5. Repeat the procedure for the other side.
To return the seats to the normal position, pull the
seatback up and fold the seat cushion down.
Safety Belts: They're for Everyone
This part of the manual tells you how to use safety belts
properly. It also tells you some things you should not do
with safety belts.
And it explains the air bag system.
CAUTION:
Don't let anyone ride where he or she can't wear
a safety belt properly. If you are in a crash and
you're not wearing a safety belt, your injuries
can be much worse. You can hit things inside the
vehicle or be ejected from it. You can be seriously
injured or killed. In the same crash, you might
not be if you are buckled up. Always fasten your
safety belt, and check that your passengers' belts
are fastened properly too.

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What makes an air bag inflate?
In an impact of sufficient severity, the air bag sensing
system detects that the vehicle is in a crash. For both
frontal and side impact air bags, the sensing system
triggers a release of gas from the inflator, which inflates
the air bag. The inflator, air bag and related hardware
are all part of the air bag modules inside the steering
wheel, instrument panel and the side of the front
seatbacks closest to the door.
How does an air bag restrain?
In moderate to severe frontal or near frontal collisions,
even belted occupants can contact the steering wheel
or the instrument panel. In moderate to severe side
collisions, even belted occupants can contact the inside
of the vehicle. The air bag supplements the protection
provided by safety belts. Air bags distribute the force of
the impact more evenly over the occupant's upper body,
stopping the occupant more gradually. But the frontal
air bags would not help you in many types of collisions,
including rollovers, rear impacts, and many side impacts,
primarily because an occupant's motion is not toward the
air bag. Side impact air bags would not help you in many
types of collisions, including frontal or near frontal
collisions, rollovers, and rear impacts, primarily because
an occupant's motion is not toward those air bags. Air bags should never be regarded as anything more than
a supplement to safety belts, and then only in moderate to
severe frontal or near
-frontal collisions for the driver's
and right front passenger's frontal air bags, and only in
moderate to severe side collisions for the driver's and
right front passenger's side impact air bags.
What will you see after an air bag inflates?
After an air bag inflates, it quickly deflates,
so quickly that some people may not even realize
the air bag inflated. Some components of the air bag
module
-- the steering wheel hub for the driver's air
bag, the instrument panel for the right front passenger's
bag, the side of the seatback closest to the door for
the driver and right front passenger's side impact
air bags
-- will be hot for a short time. The parts of
the bag that come into contact with you may be warm,
but not too hot to touch. There will be some smoke
and dust coming from the vents in the deflated air bags.
Air bag inflation doesn't prevent the driver from seeing
or being able to steer the vehicle, nor does it stop people
from leaving the vehicle.

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Restraint Systems for Children
An infant car bed (A), a special bed made for use in a
motor vehicle, is an infant restraint system designed to
restrain or position a child on a continuous flat surface.
Make sure that the infant's head rests toward the center
of the vehicle.
A rear-facing infant seat (B) provides restraint with
the seating surface against the back of the infant.
The harness system holds the infant in place and, in a
crash, acts to keep the infant positioned in the restraint.

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CAUTION:
Never do this.
Here two children are wearing the same belt.
The belt can't properly spread the impact forces.
In a crash, the two children can be crushed
together and seriously injured. A belt must be
used by only one person at a time.
Q:What if a child is wearing a lap-shoulder belt,
but the child is so small that the shoulder belt is
very close to the child's face or neck?
A:Move the child toward the center of the vehicle, but
be sure that the shoulder belt still is on the child's
shoulder, so that in a crash the child's upper body
would have the restraint that belts provide. If the
child is sitting in a rear seat outside position, see
ªRear Safety Belt Comfort Guidesº in the Index.
If the child is so small that the shoulder belt is still
very close to the child's face or neck, you might
want to place the child in a seat that has a lap belt,
if your vehicle has one.

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To enter the program mode you need to do the following:
1. Begin with the ignition in OFF. Then pull the turn
signal/multifunction lever all the way toward you
and hold it there while you perform the next step.
2. Turn the key to RUN and OFF twice. Then, with the
key in OFF, release the turn signal/multifunction
lever. Once you do this, you will hear the lock switch
lock and unlock.
3. You are now ready to program the automatic
door locks. Select one of the four programming
options listed above, and follow the instructions.
You will have 30 seconds to begin programming.
If you exceed the 30 second limit, the locks will
automatically lock and unlock to indicate that you
have left the program mode. If this occurs, repeat
the procedure beginning with Step 1.
You can exit the program mode any time by turning
the ignition to RUN (the locks will automatically
lock and unlock to indicate that you are leaving the
program mode). If the lock/unlock switches are not
pressed while in the programming mode, the current
auto lock/unlock setting will not be modified.The following is a list of available programming options:

All doors lock/Driver's door unlocks only: Press
the lock side of the power lock switch on the
door panel once and then the unlock side once.

All doors lock/All doors unlock: Press the lock
side of the power lock switch on the door panel once,
and then press the unlock side twice (this is the
factory setting).

All doors lock/None of the doors unlock: Press the
lock side of the power lock switch on the door panel
once, and then press the unlock side of the switch
three times.

No doors lock/None of the doors unlock: Press the
lock side of the power lock switch on the door panel
twice. This turns off the automatic lock feature.
See your dealer for more information.
Lockout Prevention
To protect you from locking your key in the vehicle,
this feature stops the power door lock from locking
the driver's door when the key is in the ignition and a
door is open.
If the power lock switch is pressed when a door is open
and the key is in the ignition, all of the doors will lock
and then the driver's door will unlock.

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2. Squeeze and pull down the latch levers (A), located
near the upper corners of the rear glass, so they
unlatch. After both latch levers are unlatched, the
glass
-catch release button (C) will ªcatchº the
rear glass and prevent it from falling forward.
Follow the next step to release the button and
remove the rear glass.
3. While holding the rear glass in place, press the
glass
-catch release button and pull the top of the
rear glass toward you using the grab handle(s) (B)
located at the top of the rear glass.