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Introduction
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read this manual. In it, you will learn how to operate its driving controls and avoid damage to your vehicle, other
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Introduction California Proposition 65 Warning WARNING: This product contains or emits chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Event Data Recorders This vehicle is equipped with one or more devices commonly referred to as event data recorders. These devices record front seat belt use, front passenger seat occupancy, airbag deployment data, and the failure of any airbag system component. This data belongs to the vehicle owner and m
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AFewWordsAboutSafety Your safety, and the safety of others, You will find this important safety information in a variety of forms, is very important. And operating this including: vehicle safely is an important responsibility. Safety Labels on the vehicle. Safety Messages preceded by a safety alert symbol and one of To help you make informed three signal words: DANGER, WARNING, or CAUTION. decisions about safety, we have These signal words mean: provided operating procedures and other informa
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2008 Civic Sedan Online Reference Owner's Manual Refer to 2008 Civic GX Supplement for topics specific to the Civic GX. Contents Owner's Identification Form Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................... i A Few Words About Safety ......................................................................................................
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Overview of Contents Contents Before Driving Technical Information A convenient reference to the What gasoline to use, how to break- ID numbers, dimensions, capacities, sections in this manual. in your new vehicle, and how to load and technical information. luggage and other cargo. Your Vehicle at a Glance Warranty and Customer A quick reference to the main Driving Relations controls in your vehicle. The proper way to start the engine, (U.S. and Canada only) shift the transmission, and park; pl
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Your Vehicle at a Glance Your Vehicle at a Glance INSTRUMENT PANEL INDICATORS (P. 57) MOONROOF SWITCH (P. 100) PASSENGER’S FRONT AIRBAG (P.9,30) GAUGES(P. 66) AUDIO SYSTEM (P. 112) DRIVER’S FRONT AIRBAG (P.9,24) MIRROR CONTROLS (P. 102) HEATING/COOLING CONTROLS (P. 108) POWER DOOR LOCK MASTER SWITCH DOOR LOCK TAB (P. 80) (P. 79) POWER WINDOW ACCESSORY SWITCHES POWER SOCKET (P. 99) (P. 106) FUEL FILL DOOR RELEASE HANDLE AUTOMATIC (P. 181) TRANSMISSION TRUNK RELEASE (P. 202) HANDLE MANUAL A
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Your Vehicle at a Glance INSTRUMENT PANEL HEADLIGHTS/TURN SIGNALS WINDSHIELD WIPERS/WASHERS BRIGHTNESS BUTTONS (P. 72) (P. 71) (P. 73) PASSENGER AIRBAG OFF DISPLAY CHANGE INDICATOR BUTTON (P. 30) (P. 66) SEL/RESET BUTTON (P. 66) HAZARD WARNING BUTTON VEHICLE STABILITY (P. 74) ASSIST (VSA) SYSTEM 2 OFF SWITCH (P. 211) REAR WINDOW DEFOGGER REMOTE AUDIO (P. 74) 2 2 CONTROLS HEATED MIRRORS (P. 171) (P. 103) VOICE CONTROL 3 SWITCHES HOOD RELEASE HANDLE STEERING WHEEL 2 1 CRUISE CONTROL BUTTONS
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Driver and Passenger Safety Driver and Passenger Safety This section gives you important Additional Information About Your All Children Should Sit in a information about how to protect Seat Belts.................................. 18 Back Seat .................................. 34 yourself and your passengers. It Seat Belt System Components... 18 The Passenger’s Front Airbag shows you how to use seat belts. It Lap/Shoulder Belt....................... 19 Can Pose Serious Risks .......... 34 expla
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Important Safety Precautions You’ll find many safety Restrain All Children every additional drink. So don’t drink recommendations throughout this Children age 12 and under should and drive, and don’t let your friends section, and throughout this manual. ride properly restrained in a back drink and drive, either. Therecommendationsonthispage seat, not the front seat. Infants and are the ones we consider to be the smallchildrenshouldbe restrained Control Your Speed most important. in a child seat
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Driver and Passenger Safety Your Vehicle’s Safety Features Your vehicle is equipped with many (9) (1) (4) (9) (3) features that work together to protect you and your passengers (8) during a crash. (7) Some features do not require any action on your part. These include a strong steel framework that forms a safety cage around the passenger compartment, front and rear crush zones, a collapsible steering column, (2) and tensioners that tighten the front (6) seat belts in a crash. (8) (5) (12) Howev
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Your Vehicle’s Safety Features Seat Belts Help keep you from being thrown Your vehicle is equipped with seat against the inside of the vehicle belts in all seating positions. Not wearing a seat belt properly and against other occupants. increases the chance of serious Your seat belt system also includes injury or death in a crash, even Keep you from being thrown out an indicator on the instrument panel though your vehicle has airbags. of the vehicle. and a beeper to remind you and your passenge
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Driver and Passenger Safety Your Vehicle’s Safety Features Airbags Your vehicle has a supplemental Your vehicle also has side airbags to In addition, your vehicle has side restraint system (SRS) with front help protect the upper torso of the curtain airbags to help protect the airbags to help protect the heads and driver or a front seat passenger heads of the driver, front passenger, chests of the driver and a front seat during a moderate to severe side and passengers in the outer rear passenge
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Your Vehicle’s Safety Features The most important things you need What you should do: Always wear The rest of this section gives more to know about your airbags are: your seat belt properly, and sit detailed information about how you upright and as far back from the can maximize your safety. Airbags do not replace seat belts. steering wheel as possible while They are designed to supplement allowing full control of the vehicle. A Remember however, that no safety the seat belts. front passenger s
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Driver and Passenger Safety Protecting Adults and Teens Introduction 2.Adjust the Front Seats The following pages provide instructions on how to properly Your vehicle has a door-open protect the driver, adult passengers, indicator on the instrument panel to and teenage children who are large indicate when any door is not tightly enough and mature enough to drive closed. or ride in the front. Locking the doors reduces the See pages 33 37 for important chance of someone being thrown out guidelin
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Protecting Adults and Teens If you sit too close to the steering 3.Adjust the Seat-Backs wheel or dashboard, you can be seriously injured by an inflating front Sitting too close to a front airbag, or by striking the steering airbag can result in serious wheel or dashboard. injury or death if the front airbags inflate. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Transport Always sit as far back from the Canada recommend that drivers front airbags as possible. allow at least 10 inches
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Driver and Passenger Safety Protecting Adults and Teens 4.Adjust the Head Restraints Reclining the seat-back too far Improperly positioning head can result in serious injury or restraints reduces their death in a crash. effectiveness and you can be seriously injured in a crash. Adjust the seat-back to an upright position, and sit well Make sure head restraints are back in the seat. in place and positioned properly before driving. Reclining a seat-back so that the shoulder part of the belt no lo
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Protecting Adults and Teens 5.Fasten and Position the Seat over the strongest bones in your Belts upper body. Insert the latch plate into the buckle, then tug on the belt to make sure the belt is securely latched. Check that the belt is not twisted, because a Improperly positioning the seat twisted belt can cause serious belts can cause serious injury injuries in a crash. or death in a crash. Make sure all seat belts are properly positioned before driving. Position the lap part of the belt as l
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Driver and Passenger Safety Protecting Adults and Teens Never place the shoulder portion of a 6.Maintain a Proper Sitting lap/shoulder belt under your arm or Position behind your back. This could cause After all occupants have adjusted very serious injuries in a crash. their seats and head restraints, and put on their seat belts, it is very If a seat belt does not seem to work important that they continue to sit properly, it may not protect the upright, well back in their seats, with occupant i
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Protecting Adults and Teens In addition, an occupant who is out of Advice for Pregnant Women When driving, remember to sit position in the front seat can be upright and adjust the seat as far seriously or fatally injured in a crash back as possible while allowing full by striking interior parts of the control of the vehicle. When riding vehicle or being struck by an as a front passenger, adjust the seat inflating front airbag. as far back as possible. This will reduce the risk of injuries to bo
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Driver and Passenger Safety Protecting Adults and Teens Additional Safety Precautions Do not place hard or sharp objects Do not attach hard objects on or Two people should never use the between yourself and a front near a door. If a side airbag or a same seat belt. If they do, they airbag. Carrying hard or sharp side curtain airbag inflates, a cup could be very seriously injured in a objects on your lap, or driving with holder or other hard object crash. a pipe or other sharp object in attached
