yellowblue The 1999 Tahoe Police Package Owner’s Manual Supplement 1-1 Seats and Restraint Systems This section tells you how to use your seats and safety belts properly. 2-1 Features and Controls This section explains how to start and operate your vehicle. 4-1 Your Driving and the Road Here you’ll find helpful information and tips about the road and how to drive under different conditions. 5-1 Problems on the Road This section tells you what to do if you have a problem while driving. 6-1 Service and Appearance Care Here the manual tells you how to keep your vehicle running properly and looking good. 10-1 Special Equipment Options Standard with Tahoe Police Package This section explains special equipment options that are standard with your vehicle. 11-1 Special Equipment Options Available with Tahoe Police Package This section explains special equipment options that are available for your vehicle. 12-1 Index Here’s an alphabetical listing of almost every subject in this manual. You can use it to quickly find something you want to read. This supplement contains information that pertains to the operation of your vehicle. The first five sections of this supplement correspond to the sections in your Owner’s Manual. The next two sections contain information on special equipment that is available with the Tahoe Police Package. This supplement, along with your Owner’s Manual, will assist you in the proper use and maintenance of your vehicle. i yellowblue Please keep this supplement with the Owner’s Manual in This manual includes the latest information at the time it your vehicle, so it will be there if you ever need it while was printed. We reserve the right to make changes in the you’re on the road. If you sell your vehicle, leave the product after that time without notice. Owner’s Manual Supplement and the Owner’s Manual with the vehicle. (cid:1) Copyright 1997 General Motors Corporation. All Rights Reserved. General Motors, GM, CHEVROLET and the corresponding emblem TAHOE are registered trademarks of General Motors Corporation. Part No. 15018010 A First Edition ii yellowblue Section 1 Seats and Restraint Systems Lap Belt Cinch Feature Your vehicle has a lap belt cinch feature for the right If you have the cinch feature and you don’t want the lap front passenger. Some vehicles may also have this belt to move freely, pull the belt out all of the way to set feature for the driver. the lock. To permit the lap belt to move freely again, unbuckle the belt, let it retract all the way, and buckle You can tell if the driver’s safety belt has this feature by up again. first pulling the lap part of the belt out all the way. Then, let it go back into the retractor, just a few inches. If the belt locks when you try to pull it out again, that’s the lap belt cinch feature working normally. However, if you can pull the belt out after letting it go back a few inches, then the driver’s safety belt doesn’t have this feature. 1- 1-1 yellowblue - NOTES 1-2 yellowblue Section 2 Features and Controls Keys Door Locks Specific Cylinder Unit for Single Key Inactive Rear Door Locks -- SEO 6N6 System -- SEO 6A5, 6E2 or 6E8 Your vehicle may be equipped with door locks that If your vehicle is equipped with one of these options, the have been deactivated. Only the driver’s power door entire fleet of vehicle locks can be key coded the same. lock switch locks or unlocks the latches of the rear doors. A lock rod and retainer have not been installed Alternate Key Codes Available on the rear doors. To reactivate the lock and unlock (cid:1) Standard Production-Random Code function of the rear doors, obtain one left side lock rod GM Part No. 15973843, one right side lock rod GM Part (cid:1) SEO 6A5-Specific Fleet Key Code No. 15973844 and two guides GM Part No. 15592648 (cid:1) SEO 6E2-Specific Fleet Key Code from your dealer. Refer to the service manual for the proper installation procedure. (cid:1) SEO 6E8-Specific Fleet Key Code For specific key code information, contact your dealer. 2- 2-1 yellowblue Running Your Engine While The DRL system will make your headlamps come on at a reduced brightness when: You’re Parked (cid:1) the ignition is on, Turn off the following factory equipment if emergency (cid:1) lighting and communication equipment are operating, the DRL OFF switch is deactivated while you are parked with the engine idling for an (United States only), extended period: (cid:1) the headlamp switch is off and (cid:1) Air Conditioner (cid:1) the parking brake is released. (cid:1) Fan When the DRL system is on, only your headlamps and (cid:1) Rear Window Defogger the DRL indicator light will be on. The taillamps, sidemarker and other lamps won’t be on. Your (cid:1) Factory Audio System instrument panel won’t be lit up either. For additional information, refer to the Owner’s Manual. When it begins to get dark, your DRL indicator light is a Lamps reminder to turn your headlamp switch on. The other lamps that come on with your headlamps will also Daytime Running Lamps come on. Daytime Running Lamps (DRL) can make it easier for When you turn off the headlamp switch, the regular others to see the front of your vehicle during the day. lamps will go off, and your headlamps will change to the reduced brightness of DRL. DRL can be helpful in many different driving conditions, but they can be especially helpful in the short periods after dawn and before sunset. 2-2 yellowblue Your vehicle (United States The radio display will also go off whenever the DRL only) may be equipped system is turned off with the switch. with a switch that will turn The brake system warning light will remain on if the the DRL and the DRL parking brake is applied, even with the DRL system off. indicator off. The safety belt reminder light will also remain on or flash for about 70 seconds if the driver’s belt is unlatched. Press the top of the DRL OFF switch to turn off the DRL and the DRL indicator. Press the bottom of the DRL OFF switch to turn the DRL on. United States only As with any vehicle, you should turn on the regular headlamp system when you need it. 2-3 yellowblue Instrument Panel Cluster United States version shown, Canada similar Your instrument cluster is designed to let you know at a glance how your vehicle is running. You’ll know how fast you’re going, about how much fuel you have and many other things you’ll need to know to drive safely and economically. 2-4 yellowblue Speedometer and Odometer To reset the trip odometer, fully press the reset button located near the trip odometer readout. If the reset Your certified speedometer lets you see your speed in button is not fully pressed, the trip odometer may not go both miles per hour (mph) and kilometers per hour all the way back to zero. If it doesn’t, you may have to (km/h). Your odometer shows how far your vehicle has press the reset button again to reset the readout to zero. been driven, in either miles (used in the United States) or kilometers (used in Canada). Tachometer Tamper-Resistant Odometer Your tachometer displays the engine speed in revolutions per minute (rpm). Your odometer is tamper-resistant. The odometer will show silver lines between the numbers if someone tries Warning Lights, Gages and to turn it back. Indicators You may wonder what happens if your vehicle needs a new odometer installed. If the new odometer can be set Check Gages Light to the mileage total of the old odometer, then it must be. If this warning light comes But if it can’t, then it’s set at zero, and a label must be on and stays on, check your put on the driver’s door to show the old mileage reading when the new odometer was installed. oil pressure gage to see if is in the warning zone. Trip Odometer The trip odometer can tell you how far your vehicle has been driven since you last set the trip odometer to zero. If it is, have your vehicle serviced right away. 2-5 yellowblue - NOTES 2-6