Oldsmobile Intrigue (2002 year). Manual - part 1

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These are some examples of vehicle symbols you may find on your vehicle:

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Section 1

Seats and Restraint Systems

Here you’ll find information about the seats in your vehicle and how to use your safety belts properly. You can also
learn about some things you should not do with air bags and safety belts.

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Seats and Seat Controls

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Safety Belts: They’re for Everyone

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Here Are Questions Many People Ask About
Safety Belts

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How to Wear Safety Belts Properly

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Driver Position

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Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy

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Right Front Passenger Position

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Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)

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Rear Seat Passengers

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Rear Safety Belt Comfort Guides for Children
and Small Adults

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Center Passenger Position

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Children

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Restraint Systems for Children

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Older Children

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Safety Belt Extender

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Checking Your Restraint Systems

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Replacing Restraint System Parts 
After a Crash

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Seats and Seat Controls

This section tells you how to adjust the seats and
explains reclining seatbacks, folding rear seats and 
head restraints.

Manual Front Seat

CAUTION:

You can lose control of the vehicle if you try to
adjust a manual driver’s seat while the vehicle is
moving. The sudden movement could startle and
confuse you, or make you push a pedal when you
don’t want to. Adjust the driver’s seat only when
the vehicle is not moving.

Lift the lever, located under the front of the seat, using a
twisting motion. This will unlock the seat. Slide the seat
to where you want it and release the lever. Try to move
the seat back and forth to make sure the seat is locked
into place.

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Six-Way Power Seat (If Equipped)

If your vehicle is equipped
with this feature, the
controls are located on the
outboard sides of both the
driver’s and the passenger’s
seat cushions.

To adjust the front seat cushions do any of 
the following:
D Move the seat forward or rearward by sliding the

control toward the front or the rear of the vehicle.

D Raise or lower the seat cushion by sliding the control

up or down.

D Raise or lower the front portion of the seat cushion

by sliding the front of the control up or down.

D Raise or lower the rear portion of the seat cushion by

sliding the rear of the control up or down.

Four-Way Power Lumbar Driver’s 
Seat (Option)

If the vehicle has this option, there is a control located
on the outboard side of the driver’s seat cushion, in front
of the reclining seatback lever. To increase or decrease
lumbar support, push the control forward or rearward.
To adjust the lumbar support up or down, push the
control up or down.

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Heated Front Seat (If Equipped)

If your vehicle has this
feature, the driver’s and
passenger’s heated seat
switches are located on the
instrument panel near the
comfort controls.

The driver’s switch is on the left, and the passenger’s
switch is on the right.

There are two settings, LO and HI. To choose the LO
setting, press the top part of the switch twice. The circle
next to LO on the switch will light, indicating the LO
setting has been selected.

To choose the HI setting, press the top part of the switch
once. The circle next to HI on the switch will light,
indicating the HI setting has been selected.

To turn the system off, press the lower part of the switch
once. The light should go out when the system is not in
use. The heated seats will turn off when the ignition is
turned off.

Reclining Front Seatbacks

The release levers for the driver’s and passenger’s front
seatbacks are located on the outboard sides of each front
seat cushion.

Lift the lever to release the seatback, then move the
seatback to where you want it. Release the lever to lock
the seatback in place. Pull up on the lever without pushing
on the seatback and the seatback will move forward.

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But don’t have a seatback reclined if your vehicle is moving.

CAUTION:

Sitting in a reclined position when your vehicle is
in motion can be dangerous. Even if you buckle
up, your safety belts can’t do their job when
you’re reclined like this.

The shoulder belt can’t do its job because it
won’t be against your body. Instead, it will be in
front of you. In a crash you could go into it,
receiving neck or other injuries.

The lap belt can’t do its job either. In a crash the
belt could go up over your abdomen. The belt
forces would be there, not at your pelvic bones.
This could cause serious internal injuries.

For proper protection when the vehicle is in
motion, have the seatback upright. Then sit 
well back in the seat and wear your safety 
belt properly.

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Head Restraints

Slide the head restraint up or down so that the top of the
restraint is closest to the top of your head. This position
reduces the chance of a neck injury in a crash.

Split Folding Rear Seat (If Equipped)

This feature enables you to have direct access to the
trunk from the rear seat of the vehicle. The tabs to pull
the split folding rear seat down are located on the
outboard sides of the rear seatback.

To fold down the rear
seatback, pull the seat 
tab latch forward.

To return the seat to its original position, push it back up
and make sure it latches in the locked position by
pulling and pushing on the seatback.

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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 Supplemental Restraint 
System (SRS), or 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.

CAUTION:

It is extremely dangerous to ride in a cargo area,
inside or outside of a vehicle. In a collision,
people riding in these areas are more likely to be
seriously injured or killed. Do not allow people to
ride in any area of your vehicle that is not
equipped with seats and safety belts. Be sure
everyone in your vehicle is in a seat and using a
safety belt properly.

Your vehicle has a light 
that comes on as a reminder
to buckle up. See “Safety
Belt Reminder Light” in 
the Index.

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In most states and Canadian provinces, the law says to
wear safety belts. Here’s why: They work.

You never know if you’ll be in a crash. If you do have a
crash, you don’t know if it will be a bad one.

A few crashes are mild, and some crashes can be so
serious that even buckled up a person wouldn’t survive.
But most crashes are in between. In many of them,
people who buckle up can survive and sometimes walk
away. Without belts they could have been badly hurt 
or killed.

After more than 30 years of safety belts in vehicles, 
the facts are clear. In most crashes buckling up does
matter ... a lot!

Why Safety Belts Work

When you ride in or on anything, you go as fast as 
it goes.

Take the simplest vehicle. Suppose it’s just a seat on wheels.

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Put someone on it.

Get it up to speed. Then stop the vehicle. The rider
doesn’t stop.

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The person keeps going until stopped by something.

In a real vehicle, it could be the windshield ...

or the instrument panel ...

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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’s why
safety belts make such good sense.

Here Are Questions Many People Ask
About Safety Belts 

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 and the Answers

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Won’t I be trapped in the vehicle after an
accident if I’m wearing a safety belt?

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You could be 

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 whether you’re wearing a safety

belt or not. But you can unbuckle a safety belt,
even if you’re upside down. And your chance of
being conscious during and after an accident, so
you can unbuckle and get out, is much greater if
you are belted.

Q:

If my vehicle has air bags, why should I have to
wear safety belts?

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Air bags are in many vehicles today and will be in
most of them in the future. But they are
supplemental systems only; so they work with
safety belts 

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 not instead of them. Every air bag

system ever offered for sale has required the use of
safety belts. Even if you’re in a vehicle that has air
bags, you still have to buckle up to get the most
protection. That’s true not only in frontal collisions,
but especially in side and other collisions.

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Q:

If I’m a good driver, and I never drive far from
home, why should I wear safety belts?

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You may be an excellent driver, but if you’re in an
accident 

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 even one that isn’t your fault 

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 you and

your passengers can be hurt. Being a good driver
doesn’t protect you from things beyond your
control, such as bad drivers.

Most accidents occur within 25 miles (40 km) 
of home. And the greatest number of serious
injuries and deaths occur at speeds of less 
than 40 mph (65 km/h).

Safety belts are for everyone.

How to Wear Safety Belts Properly

Adults

This part is only for people of adult size.

Be aware that there are special things to know 
about safety belts and children. And there are different
rules for smaller children and babies. If a child will 
be riding in your vehicle, see the part of this manual
called “Children.” Follow those rules for 
everyone’s protection.

First, you’ll want to know which restraint systems 
your vehicle has.

We’ll start with the driver position.

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Driver Position

This part describes the driver’s restraint system.

Lap-Shoulder Belt

The driver has a lap

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shoulder belt. Here’s how to wear 

it properly.

1. Close and lock the door.

2. Adjust the seat so you can sit up straight. To see

how, see “Seats” in the Index.

3. Pick up the latch plate and pull the belt across you.

Don’t let it get twisted.

The shoulder belt may lock if you pull the belt across
you very quickly. If this happens, let the belt go back
slightly to unlock it. Then pull the belt across you
more slowly.

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4. Push the latch plate into the buckle until it clicks.

Pull up on the latch plate to make sure it is secure. 
If the belt isn’t long enough, see “Safety Belt
Extender” at the end of this section.

Make sure the release button on the buckle is
positioned so you would be able to unbuckle the
safety belt quickly if you ever had to.

5. To make the lap part tight, pull down on the buckle

end of the belt as you pull up on the shoulder belt.

The lap part of the belt should be worn low and snug on
the hips, just touching the thighs. In a crash, this applies
force to the strong pelvic bones. And you’d be less likely
to slide under the lap belt. If you slid under it, the belt
would apply force at your abdomen. This could cause
serious or even fatal injuries. The shoulder belt should go
over the shoulder and across the chest. These parts of the
body are best able to take belt restraining forces.

The safety belt locks if there’s a sudden stop or crash, or
if you pull the belt very quickly out of the retractor.

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Shoulder Belt Height Adjuster

Before you begin to drive, move the shoulder belt
adjuster to the height that is right for you.

To move it down, squeeze the release lever and the
shoulder belt guide as shown and move the height
adjuster to the desired position. You can move the
adjuster up just by pushing up on the shoulder belt
guide. After you move the adjuster to where you want it,
try to move it down without squeezing the release lever
to make sure it has locked into position.

Adjust the height so that the shoulder portion of the 
belt is centered on your shoulder. The belt should be
away from your face and neck, but not falling off 
your shoulder.