User manual CHEVROLET CAVALIER-1996

[. . . ] 1 1 CAVALIER 0 The 1996 Chevrolet Cavalier Owner's Manual SeatsandRestraintSystems 1-1 This section tells you how to use your seats and safety belts properly. FeaturesandControls 2-1 This section explains how to start and operate your Chevrolet. Comfort Controls and Audio Systems 3-1 This section tells how to adjust the ventilation and comfort controls and how to operate your you audio system. YourDrivingandtheRoad 4-1 Here you'll find helpful information and tips about the road and how to drive under different conditions. [. . . ] For safety, you'll on want to slow down and adjust your driving these to conditions. It is important to slow down on slippery surfaces because stopping distance will be longer and vehicle control more limited. While drivingon a surface with reduced traction, try your best to avoid sudden steering, acceleration or braking (including engine braking by shifting a lower to gear). You may not realize the surface is slippery until your vehicle is skidding. Learn recognize warning to clues -- such as enough water, ice or packed snow on the road to make a "mirrored surface"-- and slow down when you have any doubt. Remember: Any anti-lock brake system (ABS) helps avoid only the braking skid. 4-14 Driving at Night Here are some tips night driving. Adjust your inside rearview mirror to reduce the glare from headlamps behind you. Since you can't see as well, you may need to slow down andkeep more space between you and other vehicles. Slow down, especially on higher speed roads. Your headlamps can light up only much road ahead. so In remote areas, watch for animals. 0 0 0 0 If you're tired, pull off the road in a safe place and rest. Night driving is more dangerous than day driving. One reason is that some drivers are likely be impaired -- by to alcohol ordrugs, with night vision problems, or by fatigue. 4-15 Night Vision No one can see as well night as in the daytime. 50-year-old A driver may require least twiceas much lightto see the at same thingat night as a 20-year-old. K&@Y6ur windshield and all the glass on your vehicle clean -- inside and out. Dirty glass makes a lights dazzle and flash more than clean glass would, making the pupils of your eyes contract repeatedly. What you do in the daytime can also affect your night Remember that your headlamps light up far less of a vision. For example, you spend the day in bright if roadway when you in a turn or curve. Keep your are sunshine you are wise wear sunglasses. Your eyes will to eyes moving; that way, it's easier pick out dimly to have less trouble adjustingto night. Butif you're lighted objects. Just as your headlamps should be driving, don't wear sunglasses night. They may at cut checked regularlyfor proper aim, so should your eyes down on glare from headlamps, but they also make a lot be examined regularly. blindness -- the inability to see in light -- and dim aren't even aware it. It can take a secondor two, or even several seconds, for your eyes to readjust the dark. When to you are faced with severe glare (as from a driver who doesn't lower the high beams, a vehicle with or misaimed headlamps), slow down little. Avoid staring a directly into the approaching headlamps. 4-16 Driving in Rain and on Wet Roads Rain and wet roads can mean driving trouble. a wet On road, you can't stop, accelerate or turn as well because your tire-to-road traction isn't as good as on roads. [. . . ] 2-46 Convertible Top 6-48 Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-53 2-57 Raising Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Convex Outside Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20 Defensive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4- 1 Drunken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-21 InaBlizzard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27 In Foreign Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]