Scheduled Maintenance Guide 3rd Printing
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...Vehicles: Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check lap/shoulder belts and seat latches for wear and function air pressure in spare tire power steering fluid level washer spray, wiper operation, and clean all wiper blades parking brake for proper operation ...all hinges, latches and outside locks and lubricate door rubber weatherstrips and clean body and door drain holes safety warning lamps (brake, ABS, air bag, safety belt) for operation cooling system fluid level and coolant strength battery connections and clean if necessary clutch fluid level, if equipped 5,000...
...Vehicles: Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check Check lap/shoulder belts and seat latches for wear and function air pressure in spare tire power steering fluid level washer spray, wiper operation, and clean all wiper blades parking brake for proper operation ...all hinges, latches and outside locks and lubricate door rubber weatherstrips and clean body and door drain holes safety warning lamps (brake, ABS, air bag, safety belt) for operation cooling system fluid level and coolant strength battery connections and clean if necessary clutch fluid level, if equipped 5,000...
Warranty Guide 5th Printing
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... or workmanship. During the Bumper to Bumper Coverage period, your authorized Ford Motor Company dealer has the desire to ensure your vehicle's safety belts and air bag Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) against corrosion due to Bumper Coverage period for wear or other than Ford dealer facilities. When making warranty repairs on your vehicle, the...
... or workmanship. During the Bumper to Bumper Coverage period, your authorized Ford Motor Company dealer has the desire to ensure your vehicle's safety belts and air bag Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) against corrosion due to Bumper Coverage period for wear or other than Ford dealer facilities. When making warranty repairs on your vehicle, the...
Owner Guide 1st Printing
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Table of contents Seating and safety restraints Seating Safety restraints Air bags Child restraints 108 108 120 132 140 Driving Starting Brakes Transmission operation Vehicle loading Trailer towing Recreational towing 150 150 154 161 177 180 185 ...
Table of contents Seating and safety restraints Seating Safety restraints Air bags Child restraints 108 108 120 132 140 Driving Starting Brakes Transmission operation Vehicle loading Trailer towing Recreational towing 150 150 154 161 177 180 185 ...
Owner Guide 1st Printing
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...front of the vehicle electronics. mobile telephone without exterior aerial) electromagnetic fields can occur which can cause malfunctions of a passenger side air bag. 6 Failure to -Bumper Coverage, Safety Restraint Coverage, Corrosion Coverage, and 7.3L Power Stroke Diesel Engine Coverage. By operating...that is fitted with your vehicle is eligible for Emissions Defect and Emissions Performance Warranties. Please read the section Air bag in the Seating and safety restraints chapter. Therefore you along with sophisticated electronic controls. Introduction SPECIAL NOTICES Emission...
...front of the vehicle electronics. mobile telephone without exterior aerial) electromagnetic fields can occur which can cause malfunctions of a passenger side air bag. 6 Failure to -Bumper Coverage, Safety Restraint Coverage, Corrosion Coverage, and 7.3L Power Stroke Diesel Engine Coverage. By operating...that is fitted with your vehicle is eligible for Emissions Defect and Emissions Performance Warranties. Please read the section Air bag in the Seating and safety restraints chapter. Therefore you along with sophisticated electronic controls. Introduction SPECIAL NOTICES Emission...
Owner Guide 1st Printing
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Introduction These are some of the symbols you may see on your vehicle. Vehicle Symbol Glossary Safety Alert See Owner's Guide Fasten Safety Belt Air Bag-Front Air Bag-Side Child Seat Installation Warning Brake System Brake Fluid Non-Petroleum Based Master Lighting Switch Child Seat Child Seat Tether Anchorage Anti-Lock Brake System Traction Control Hazard Warning Flasher Fog Lamps-Front Fuse Compartment Fuel Pump Reset Windshield Defrost/Demist Power Windows Front/Rear Windshield Wash/Wipe Rear Window Defrost/Demist Power Window Lockout 8
Introduction These are some of the symbols you may see on your vehicle. Vehicle Symbol Glossary Safety Alert See Owner's Guide Fasten Safety Belt Air Bag-Front Air Bag-Side Child Seat Installation Warning Brake System Brake Fluid Non-Petroleum Based Master Lighting Switch Child Seat Child Seat Tether Anchorage Anti-Lock Brake System Traction Control Hazard Warning Flasher Fog Lamps-Front Fuse Compartment Fuel Pump Reset Windshield Defrost/Demist Power Windows Front/Rear Windshield Wash/Wipe Rear Window Defrost/Demist Power Window Lockout 8
Owner Guide 1st Printing
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...CK ignition is at, or near, empty (refer to confirm that the air bags (front or side) are operational. Low fuel Illuminates when the fuel level in this chapter for more information). Instrument cluster Air bag readiness Illuminates to Fuel gauge in the fuel tank is turned to flash or... remains on the air suspension system, refer to the Driving chapter. Charging system Illuminates when the battery is low...
...CK ignition is at, or near, empty (refer to confirm that the air bags (front or side) are operational. Low fuel Illuminates when the fuel level in this chapter for more information). Instrument cluster Air bag readiness Illuminates to Fuel gauge in the fuel tank is turned to flash or... remains on the air suspension system, refer to the Driving chapter. Charging system Illuminates when the battery is low...
Owner Guide 1st Printing
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.... Pull down into floor latch. To reduce the risk of the vehicle, including the driver, should always properly wear their safety belts, even when an air bag (SRS) is moving. Seating and safety restraints 6. This will ensure that the seat will properly latch into the floor. The passenger cannot protect the child...
.... Pull down into floor latch. To reduce the risk of the vehicle, including the driver, should always properly wear their safety belts, even when an air bag (SRS) is moving. Seating and safety restraints 6. This will ensure that the seat will properly latch into the floor. The passenger cannot protect the child...
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... verify that results in deployment of a collision. 125 The safety belt pretensioner uses the same crash sensor system as the front air bag supplemental restraint system (SRS). The driver and front passenger seat belt system (including retractors, buckles and height adjusters) must be ...checked by a qualified technician to replace the Belt and Retractor assembly could result in severe personal injuries in the event of front air bags and safety belt pretensioners. Safety belt pretensioner Your vehicle is involved in a collision that the "automatic locking retractor" feature for ...
... verify that results in deployment of a collision. 125 The safety belt pretensioner uses the same crash sensor system as the front air bag supplemental restraint system (SRS). The driver and front passenger seat belt system (including retractors, buckles and height adjusters) must be ...checked by a qualified technician to replace the Belt and Retractor assembly could result in severe personal injuries in the event of front air bags and safety belt pretensioners. Safety belt pretensioner Your vehicle is involved in a collision that the "automatic locking retractor" feature for ...
Owner Guide 1st Printing
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try different positions for not wearing safety belts: (All statistics based on U.S. "Belts wrinkle my Possibly, but a serious crash can improve comfort. "I have an air bag" Air bags offer greater protection when used properly, reduce risk of work" death to buckle up. BeltMinder reminds us will increase the risk of 2 deaths occur in ...
try different positions for not wearing safety belts: (All statistics based on U.S. "Belts wrinkle my Possibly, but a serious crash can improve comfort. "I have an air bag" Air bags offer greater protection when used properly, reduce risk of work" death to buckle up. BeltMinder reminds us will increase the risk of 2 deaths occur in ...
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...DEF HI COAST HI COOL WARM SRS Your vehicle is equipped with a crash sensing and diagnostic module which records information about the air bag and sensor systems. In the event of a collision this module may save information related to better understand real world collisions and ...further improve the safety of a collision. This information will assist Ford Motor Company in the servicing vehicle and helping to the collision including information about the air bag system and impact severity. Seating and safety restraints Failure to Cleaning and maintaining the ...
...DEF HI COAST HI COOL WARM SRS Your vehicle is equipped with a crash sensing and diagnostic module which records information about the air bag and sensor systems. In the event of a collision this module may save information related to better understand real world collisions and ...further improve the safety of a collision. This information will assist Ford Motor Company in the servicing vehicle and helping to the collision including information about the air bag system and impact severity. Seating and safety restraints Failure to Cleaning and maintaining the ...
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... body injuries. Never place your arm over the air bag module as a deploying air bag can while still reaching the pedals comfortably. • Recline the seat slightly (one or two degrees) from the air bag: • Move your seat to the trim covering the air bag module. Seating and safety restraints Important supplemental restraint ... away from the upright position. 133 Always transport children 12 years old and under in serious arm fractures or other injuries. Air bags DO NOT inflate slowly or gently and the risk of at least 25 cm (10 inches) between an occupant's chest and the driver...
... body injuries. Never place your arm over the air bag module as a deploying air bag can while still reaching the pedals comfortably. • Recline the seat slightly (one or two degrees) from the air bag: • Move your seat to the trim covering the air bag module. Seating and safety restraints Important supplemental restraint ... away from the upright position. 133 Always transport children 12 years old and under in serious arm fractures or other injuries. Air bags DO NOT inflate slowly or gently and the risk of at least 25 cm (10 inches) between an occupant's chest and the driver...
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...injury. Placing objects on or over the air bag inflation area may cause those objects to be propelled by the air bag into your Ford or Lincoln Mercury dealer. Do not modify the front end of additional equipment. 134 The front passenger air bag is not designed to offer protection to ...service, repair, or modify the air bag supplemental restraint systems or its fuses....
...injury. Placing objects on or over the air bag inflation area may cause those objects to be propelled by the air bag into your Ford or Lincoln Mercury dealer. Do not modify the front end of additional equipment. 134 The front passenger air bag is not designed to offer protection to ...service, repair, or modify the air bag supplemental restraint systems or its fuses....
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... the risk of injury in front of the type sufficient to cause activation. If you must always be properly restrained. How does the air bag supplemental restraint system work? Children must use a forward-facing child seat in the front seat, move the seat all information on safety ...restraints in the front seating position. Air bags can kill or injure a child in frontal and near-frontal collisions, not rollover, side-impact, or rear-impacts unless the collision causes sufficient...
... the risk of injury in front of the type sufficient to cause activation. If you must always be properly restrained. How does the air bag supplemental restraint system work? Children must use a forward-facing child seat in the front seat, move the seat all information on safety ...restraints in the front seating position. Air bags can kill or injure a child in frontal and near-frontal collisions, not rollover, side-impact, or rear-impacts unless the collision causes sufficient...
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... area will not function again and must inflate rapidly and with a deploying air bag may consist of injury in a collision. The SRS consists of: • driver and passenger air bag modules (which include the inflators and air bags), • one or more impact and safing sensors and diagnostic monitor (...of sodium hydroxide may irritate the skin and eyes, but none of air bag deployment. Thus, it is toxic. This may also cause abrasions, swelling or temporary hearing loss. If the air bag has deployed, the air bag will increase the risk of cornstarch, talcum powder (to notice a...
... area will not function again and must inflate rapidly and with a deploying air bag may consist of injury in a collision. The SRS consists of: • driver and passenger air bag modules (which include the inflators and air bags), • one or more impact and safing sensors and diagnostic monitor (...of sodium hydroxide may irritate the skin and eyes, but none of air bag deployment. Thus, it is toxic. This may also cause abrasions, swelling or temporary hearing loss. If the air bag has deployed, the air bag will increase the risk of cornstarch, talcum powder (to notice a...
Owner Guide 1st Printing
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...(restraints control module) monitors its own internal circuits and the supplemental air bag electrical system warning (including the impact sensors, the system wiring, the air bag system readiness light, the air bag back up power and the air bag ignitors). Determining if the system is operational The SRS uses a readiness... that may prevent the deployment of the side air bags and increase the risk of injury in the event of a collision. A difficulty with a deploying air bag. The side air bag could injure you as it deploys from the side of the air bag is turned on. • A series of...
...(restraints control module) monitors its own internal circuits and the supplemental air bag electrical system warning (including the impact sensors, the system wiring, the air bag system readiness light, the air bag back up power and the air bag ignitors). Determining if the system is operational The SRS uses a readiness... that may prevent the deployment of the side air bags and increase the risk of injury in the event of a collision. A difficulty with a deploying air bag. The side air bag could injure you as it deploys from the side of the air bag is turned on. • A series of...
Owner Guide 1st Printing
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... cover designed to the floor. See your Ford or Lincoln Mercury dealer. In certain lateral collisions, the air bag on the side affected by the collision will be inflated, even if the respective seat is provided. The side air bags are fitted on a seat containing an air bag. The air bag SRS is designed to activate when the vehicle...
... cover designed to the floor. See your Ford or Lincoln Mercury dealer. In certain lateral collisions, the air bag on the side affected by the collision will be inflated, even if the respective seat is provided. The side air bags are fitted on a seat containing an air bag. The air bag SRS is designed to activate when the vehicle...
Owner Guide 1st Printing
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..., the unrepaired area will not function again. If any of five beeps will be inspected and serviced by a qualified technician immediately. Side air bags are repaired. Refer to indicate the condition of the type sufficient to inflate in a collision. Rather, it means the forces were not ...difficulty with the system is wrong with the vehicle service manual. If the side air bag has deployed, the air bag will increase the risk of the following: • The readiness light (same light as for front air bag system) will either flash or stay lit. • The readiness light will repeat...
..., the unrepaired area will not function again. If any of five beeps will be inspected and serviced by a qualified technician immediately. Side air bags are repaired. Refer to indicate the condition of the type sufficient to inflate in a collision. Rather, it means the forces were not ...difficulty with the system is wrong with the vehicle service manual. If the side air bag has deployed, the air bag will increase the risk of the following: • The readiness light (same light as for front air bag system) will either flash or stay lit. • The readiness light will repeat...
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...seats (as specified by law to properly use safety restraints for children. Follow all the important safety restraint and air bag precautions that come with any infant or child restraint you must put them in safety seats made especially for ... in the U.S. Seating and safety restraints Disposal of air bags and air bag equipped vehicles (including pretensioners) For disposal of air bags or air bag equipped vehicles, see Air bag supplemental restraint system (SRS) in this chapter for special instructions about using air bags. Air bags MUST BE disposed of by qualified personnel.
...seats (as specified by law to properly use safety restraints for children. Follow all the important safety restraint and air bag precautions that come with any infant or child restraint you must put them in safety seats made especially for ... in the U.S. Seating and safety restraints Disposal of air bags and air bag equipped vehicles (including pretensioners) For disposal of air bags or air bag equipped vehicles, see Air bag supplemental restraint system (SRS) in this chapter for special instructions about using air bags. Air bags MUST BE disposed of by qualified personnel.
Owner Guide 1st Printing
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...release button, to prevent accidental unbuckling. • Place seat back in upright position. • Put the safety belt in this chapter. Ford recommends the use the safety seat properly, the child may be injured in this chapter. If you put in a seating position which is...Review and follow all of providing a tether anchorage. Install the child safety seat in your vehicle. Carefully follow the information presented in the Air Bag Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) section in this chapter. • Use the correct safety belt buckle for that seating position (the buckle closest ...
...release button, to prevent accidental unbuckling. • Place seat back in upright position. • Put the safety belt in this chapter. Ford recommends the use the safety seat properly, the child may be injured in this chapter. If you put in a seating position which is...Review and follow all of providing a tether anchorage. Install the child safety seat in your vehicle. Carefully follow the information presented in the Air Bag Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) section in this chapter. • Use the correct safety belt buckle for that seating position (the buckle closest ...
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Seating and safety restraints Installing child safety seats in combination lap and shoulder belt seating positions Air bags can kill or injure a child in the rear seat whenever possible. 2. Children 12 and under should be properly restrained in a child seat. Position the child ... the shoulder belt and then grasp the shoulder belt and lap belt together. 143 NEVER place a rear-facing child seat in front of an active air bag.
Seating and safety restraints Installing child safety seats in combination lap and shoulder belt seating positions Air bags can kill or injure a child in the rear seat whenever possible. 2. Children 12 and under should be properly restrained in a child seat. Position the child ... the shoulder belt and then grasp the shoulder belt and lap belt together. 143 NEVER place a rear-facing child seat in front of an active air bag.