HONDA ACCORD 2004 CL7 / 7.G Owners Manual

Your Vehicle at a Glance
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HEATING/COOLING
CONTROLS
POWER DOOR LOCK
SWITCH
MIRROR CONTROLS
POWER WINDOW
SWITCHES DASH LIGHTS
GAUGES
HOOD RELEASE
HANDLE
TRUNK RELEASE HANDLE/
FUEL FILL DOOR RELEASE (P.62)
ACCESSORY POWER SOCKETS(P.110)
AUDIO SYSTEM
AUTOMATIC
TRANSMISSION
MANUAL
TRANSMISSION
AIRBAGS
(P.9/22)
(P.68)
(P.98)
(P.83)
(P.99)
(P.89/165) (P.166) (P.107)(P.180)
(P.182) (P.122)
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Your Vehicle at a Glance
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WINDSHIELD
WIPERS/WASHERS
INSTRUMENT PANEL
BRIGHTNESS
MOONROOF
SWITCH VOICE CONTROL
SWITCHES HEADLIGHTS/
TURN SIGNALS
REMOTE AUDIO
CONTROLS
TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM HORN STEERING WHEEL
ADJUSTMENT HAZARD
WARNING LIGHTS
CRUISE CONTROLS
REAR WINDOW
DEFOGGER
PASSENGER AIRBAG
OFF INDICATOR
(P.31)
(P.76)
(P.74)
(P.151)
(P.102)
(P.191) (P.78) (P.77, 113, 116)
(P.155)
(P.76)
(P.73)
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This section gives you important
inf ormation about how to protect
yourself and your passengers. It
shows you how to use seat belts. It
explains how your airbags work, and
it tells you how to properly restrain
inf ants and children in your vehicle.
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Important Safety Precautions . 6
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Your Vehicle’s Saf ety Features . 7
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Seat Belts . 8
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Airbags . 9
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Protecting Adults and Teens . 11
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1. Close and Lock the Doors . 11
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2. Adjust the Front Seats . 12
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3. Adjust the Seat-Backs . 13
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4. Adjust the Head Restraints . 14
5. Fasten and Position the Lap/
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Shoulder Seat Belts . 14
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6. Adjust the Steering Wheel . 16
7. Maintain a Proper Sitting
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Position . 16 .....
Advice f or Pregnant Women . 17
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Additional Safety Precautions . 18
Additional Inf ormation About Your .................................
Seat Belts . 19
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Seat Belt System Components . 19
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Lap/Shoulder Belt . 19
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Seat Belt Maintenance . 21
Additional Inf ormation About Your .....................................
Airbags . 22
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Airbag System Components . 22
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Advanced Airbags . 25
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How Your Side Airbags Work . 27
How Your Side Curtain Airbags
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Work . 28
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How the SRS Indicator Works . 28
How the Side Airbag Of f
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Indicator Works . 29
How the Passenger Airbag Of f
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Indicator Works . 31
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Airbag Service . 32
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Additional Safety Precautions . 33
Protecting Children General ................................
Guidelines . 34 All Children Must Be
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Restrained . 34
All Children Should Sit in the .................................
Back Seat . 35
The Passenger’s Front Airbag .........
Can Pose Serious Risks . 35
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Inf ants . 35
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Small Children . 35
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Larger Children . 35
If You Must Drive with Several
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Children . 38
If a Child Requires Close ..................................
Attention . 38
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Additional Safety Precautions . 38
Protecting Inf ants and .........................
Small Children . 40
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Protecting Inf ants . 40
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Protecting Small Children . 42
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Selecting Child Seats . 43
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Installing a Child Seat . 45
Installing a Child Seat Using .....................................
LATCH . 46
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Protecting Larger Children . 51
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Additional Safety Precautions . 55
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Carbon Monoxide Hazard . 56
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Saf ety Labels . 57
Automatic Seat Belt Tensioners
How Your Front Airbags Work
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
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You’ll f ind many saf ety
recommendations throughout this
section, and throughout this manual.
Therecommendationsonthispage
are the ones we consider to be the
most important.
Children age 12 and under should
ride properly restrained in a back
seat. Infants and small children
should be restrained in a child seat.
Larger children should use a booster
and a lap/shoulder belt until theycanusethebeltproperlywithouta
booster (see page ). Excessive speed is a major f actor in
crash injuries and deaths. Generally,
the higher the speed, the greater the
risk, but serious injuries can also
occur at lower speeds. Never drive
f aster than is saf e f or current
conditions, regardless of the
maximum speed posted.
Having a tire blowout or a
mechanical f ailure can be extremely
hazardous. To reduce the possibility
of such problems, check your tire
pressures and condition f requently,
and perform all regularly scheduled
maintenance (see page ).
A seat belt is your best protection in
all types of collisions. Airbags
supplement seat belts, but airbags
are designed to inf late only in a
moderate to severe f rontal collision.
So even though your vehicle is
equipped with airbags, make sure
you and your passengers always
wear your seat belts, and wear them
properly (see page ). While airbags can save lives, they
can cause serious or fatal injuries to
occupants who sit too close to them,
or are not properly restrained.
Inf ants, young children, and short
adults are at the greatest risk. Be
sure to f ollow all instructions and
warnings in this manual.
Alcohol and driving don’t mix. Even
one drink can reduce your ability to
respond to changing conditions, and
your reaction time gets worse with
every additional drink. So don’t drink
and drive, and don’t let your f riends
drink and drive, either.
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Important Saf ety Precautions
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Always Wear Your Seat Belt
Restrain All ChildrenBe Aware of Airbag Hazards
Control Your Speed
K eep Your Vehicle in Saf e
Condition
Don’t Drink and Drive
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Some saf ety f eatures do not require
anyactiononyourpart.These
include a strong steel f ramework
that forms a safety cage around the
passenger compartment; f ront and
rear crush zones, a collapsible
steering column, and seat belt
tensioners that tighten the front seat
belts in the event of a crash.
However, you and your passengers
can’t take f ull advantage of these
saf ety f eatures unless you remain
sitting in a proper position and
always wear your seat belts properly.
Infact,somesafetyfeaturescan
contribute to injuries if they are not
used properly.
Your vehicle is equipped with many
features that work together to
protect you and your passengers
during a crash.
The f ollowing pages explain how you
cantakeanactiveroleinprotecting
yourself and your passengers.
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Your Vehicle’s Saf ety Features
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(2)
(2)
(3) (4)
(5)(6)
(7)
(8)
(7) (10)
(11)
(9)
(8)
(6) Seat Belts
(7) Front Airbags
(8) Side Airbags
(9) Side Curtain Airbags
(10) Door Locks
(11) Seat Belt Tensioners
(1) Safety Cage
(2) Crush Zones
(3) Seats and Seat-Backs
(4) Head Restraints
(5) Collapsible Steering Column
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Your vehicle is equipped with seat
belts in all seating positions.Your seat belt system also
includes a light on the
instrument panel to remind you and
your passengers to f asten your seat
belts.
Seat belts are the single most
effectivesafetydeviceforadultsand
larger children (Inf ants and smaller
children must be properly restrained
in child seats).
In addition, most states and all
Canadian provinces require you to
wear seat belts. When properly worn, seat belts: Of course, seat belts cannot
completely protect you in every
crash.Butinmostcases,seatbelts
can reduce your risk of serious
injury.
Help keep you in a good position
should the airbags ever deploy. A
good position reduces the risk of
injury f rom an inf lating airbag, and
allows you to get the best
advantage f rom the airbag.
Keep you f rom being thrown out
of the vehicle.
Help keep you f rom being thrown
against the inside of the vehicle
and against other occupants.
Help protect you in almost every
type of crash, including f rontal,
side, and rear impacts and
rollovers.
Keep you connected to the vehicle
so you can take advantage of the
vehicle’s built-in saf ety f eatures.
Not wearing a seat belt properly
increases the chance of serious
injury or death in a crash, even
though your vehicle has airbags.
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Seat Belts
Why Wear Seat Belt s
Your Vehicle’s Saf ety Features
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Your vehicle has a Supplemental
Restraint System (SRS) with f ront
airbags to help protect the heads and
chests of the driver and a front seat
passenger during a moderate to
severe f rontal collision (see pagef or more inf ormation on how
your f ront airbags work). Your vehicle also has side airbags to
help protect the upper torso of the
driver or a f ront seat passenger
during a moderate to severe side
impact (see page f or more
information on how your side airbags
work).
Always wear your seat belt, and
make sure you wear it properly.
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Optional on the U.S. LX model
Standard on V-6 and EX models.
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
AirbagsWhat You Should Do:
Your Vehicle’s Saf ety Features
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Not wearing a seat belt properly
increases the chance of serious
injury or death in a crash, even
if you have airbags.
Be sure you and your
passenger always wear seat
belts and wear them properly.
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Your vehicle also has side curtain
airbags to help protect the heads of
the driver, f ront passenger, and
passengers in the outer rear seating
positions (see page f or more
inf ormation on how your side curtain
airbags work).To do
their job, airbags must inf late with
tremendous f orce. So while
airbags help save lives they can
cause minor injuries, or more
serious or even fatal injuries if
occupants are not properly
restrained or sitting properly.
Always wear
your seat belt properly, and sit
upright, and as f ar back f rom the
steering wheel as possible while
allowing f ull control of the vehicle. A
f ront passenger should move their
seat as far back from the dashboard
as possible.
The most important things you need
to know about your airbags are:
They are designed to supplement
the seat belts.
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U.S. EX-L model, optional on U.S. EX
model and Canadian EX-V6 model
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
A irbags can pose hazards.
What you should do:
Airbags do not replace seat belts. A irbags of f er no prot ect ion in rearimpact s, or minor f ront al or sidecollisions.
Your Vehicle’s Saf ety Features
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on the instrument panel to indicate
when a specif ic door is not tightly
closed.
Locking the doors reduces the
chance of someone being thrown out
of the vehicle during a crash, and it
helps prevent passengers f rom
accidentally opening a door and
f alling out.
Locking the doors also helps prevent
an outsider f rom unexpectedly
opening a door when you come to a
stop.
See page f or how to lock the
doors, and page f or how the
monitor light works.
The f ollowing pages provide
instructions on how to properly
protect the driver, adult passengers,
and teenage children who are large
enough and mature enough to ride in
the f ront. See pages f or
important guidelines on how to
properly protect inf ants, small
children, and larger children who
ride in your vehicle.
The rest of this section gives more
detailed inf ormation about how you
can maximize your saf ety.
Af ter everyone has entered the car,
be sure the doors are closed and
locked.
Remember, however, that no saf ety
system can prevent all injuries or
deaths that can occur in severe
crashes, even when seat belts are
properly worn and the airbags deploy.
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Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Protecting A dults and Teens
Introduction
Close and L ock the Doors
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