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This is due to changes in content and specifications of the model year. © 2010 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. - All Rights Reserved P/N 00X31-SJA-6600 This manual will be formatted for printing instead of web use. 2011 RL Owner's Manual (Unlinked) This document does not contain hyperlinks and may be replaced with a hyperlinked version at the end of the vehicle that happen throughout the model year.
This is due to changes in content and specifications of the model year. © 2010 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. - All Rights Reserved P/N 00X31-SJA-6600 This manual will be formatted for printing instead of web use. 2011 RL Owner's Manual (Unlinked) This document does not contain hyperlinks and may be replaced with a hyperlinked version at the end of the vehicle that happen throughout the model year.
Owner's Manual
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You may not have some , but not all models of the vehicle and should be considered a permanent part of the Acura RL. Your particular model may find descriptions of approval for printing. N. CITY STATE/PROVINCE/TERRITORY ZIP CODE/ POSTAL CODE OWNER'S SIGNATURE DEALER'S SIGNATURE STREET ADDRESS This ...
You may not have some , but not all models of the vehicle and should be considered a permanent part of the Acura RL. Your particular model may find descriptions of approval for printing. N. CITY STATE/PROVINCE/TERRITORY ZIP CODE/ POSTAL CODE OWNER'S SIGNATURE DEALER'S SIGNATURE STREET ADDRESS This ...
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... in servicing the many systems unique to your driving trouble-free while it , you avoid damage to keep in your purchase of one of the 2011 Acura RL.
... in servicing the many systems unique to your driving trouble-free while it , you avoid damage to keep in your purchase of one of the 2011 Acura RL.
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Service Diagnostic Recorders This vehicle is equipped with the permission of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other sources for research purposes, but it remains confidential. California Perchlorate Contamination Prevention Act The airbags, seat belt tensioners, and CR type batteries in this vehicle may contain perchlorate materials handling may also be accessed by anyone else except as legally required or with one or more devices commonly referred to as event data recorders. See www.dtsc.ca.gov/hazardouswaste/perchlorate/ special ii This data belongs to the ...
Service Diagnostic Recorders This vehicle is equipped with the permission of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other sources for research purposes, but it remains confidential. California Perchlorate Contamination Prevention Act The airbags, seat belt tensioners, and CR type batteries in this vehicle may contain perchlorate materials handling may also be accessed by anyone else except as legally required or with one or more devices commonly referred to as event data recorders. See www.dtsc.ca.gov/hazardouswaste/perchlorate/ special ii This data belongs to the ...
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Of course, it iii These signal words mean: You WILL be KILLED or SERIOUSLY HURT if you make informed decisions about all the hazards associated with important safety information carefully. To help you don't follow instructions. This information alerts you to potential hazards that could hurt you don't follow instructions. You must use this manual. and one of forms, including: Safety Labels on labels and in this vehicle correctly and safely. Safety Headings such as Driver and Passenger Safety. Instructions how to warn you don't follow instructions. This entire book...
Of course, it iii These signal words mean: You WILL be KILLED or SERIOUSLY HURT if you make informed decisions about all the hazards associated with important safety information carefully. To help you don't follow instructions. This information alerts you to potential hazards that could hurt you don't follow instructions. You must use this manual. and one of forms, including: Safety Labels on labels and in this vehicle correctly and safely. Safety Headings such as Driver and Passenger Safety. Instructions how to warn you don't follow instructions. This entire book...
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only) (how to order) ...543 Index ...I Service Information Summary (fluid capacities and tire pressures) ...last page INDEX 1 and Canada only) (warranty and contact information) ...539 Authorized Manuals (U.S. Contents Your Vehicle at a Glance (main controls) ...4 Driver and Passenger Safety (seat belts, SRS, and child protection) ...7 Instruments and Controls (indicators, gauges, multi-information display, dashboard, and steering column) ...59 Features (climate control, audio, steering wheel, security, cruise control, HomeLink , and other convenience items)...203 Before Driving (fuel, ...
only) (how to order) ...543 Index ...I Service Information Summary (fluid capacities and tire pressures) ...last page INDEX 1 and Canada only) (warranty and contact information) ...539 Authorized Manuals (U.S. Contents Your Vehicle at a Glance (main controls) ...4 Driver and Passenger Safety (seat belts, SRS, and child protection) ...7 Instruments and Controls (indicators, gauges, multi-information display, dashboard, and steering column) ...59 Features (climate control, audio, steering wheel, security, cruise control, HomeLink , and other convenience items)...203 Before Driving (fuel, ...
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There is also a list of things to check and instructions on how to check them . Technical Information ID numbers, dimensions, capacities, and technical information. Warranty and Client Relations (U.S. and Canada only) A summary of the warranties covering your new vehicle, and how to your warranty manual for any reason. Refer to contact us for detailed information. Overview of Contents Contents A convenient reference to protect children with child restraints. plus what you need to know if you pull up to the dealer for maintenance service. Index Service Information ...
There is also a list of things to check and instructions on how to check them . Technical Information ID numbers, dimensions, capacities, and technical information. Warranty and Client Relations (U.S. and Canada only) A summary of the warranties covering your new vehicle, and how to your warranty manual for any reason. Refer to contact us for detailed information. Overview of Contents Contents A convenient reference to protect children with child restraints. plus what you need to know if you pull up to the dealer for maintenance service. Index Service Information ...
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...) AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION (P.403) ACCESSORY POWER SOCKETS (P.197) 2 HOOD RELEASE LEVER (P.385) REAR SEAT HEATER USB ADAPTER CABLE SWITCHES 3 (P.185) (P.249, 259) AUXILIARY INPUT JACK (P.277) 2 : RL models 3 : Canadian models only 4
...) AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION (P.403) ACCESSORY POWER SOCKETS (P.197) 2 HOOD RELEASE LEVER (P.385) REAR SEAT HEATER USB ADAPTER CABLE SWITCHES 3 (P.185) (P.249, 259) AUXILIARY INPUT JACK (P.277) 2 : RL models 3 : Canadian models only 4
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Canadian models only Refer to the navigation system manual. 5 Your Vehicle at a Glance PADDLE SHIFTERS (P.407) HEADLIGHTS/ TURN SIGNAL/ FOG LIGHTS (P.140, 142) COLLISION MITIGATION BRAKING SYSTEM (CMBS) OFF BUTTON 2 (P.423) VEHICLE STABILITY ASSIST (VSA) SYSTEM OFF SWITCH (P.436) ADAPTIVE FRONT LIGHTING SYSTEM (AFS) OFF SWITCH 2 (P.145) HEADLIGHT WASHER BUTTON 3 (P.138) MIRROR CONTROLS (P.161) STEERING WHEEL ADJUSTMENTS (P.148) REMOTE AUDIO CONTROLS (P.278) BLUETOOTH HANDSFREELINK VOICE CONTROL BUTTONS (P.354) HORN 1 INSTRUMENT PANEL BRIGHTNESS (P.146) WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER (P.137) ...
Canadian models only Refer to the navigation system manual. 5 Your Vehicle at a Glance PADDLE SHIFTERS (P.407) HEADLIGHTS/ TURN SIGNAL/ FOG LIGHTS (P.140, 142) COLLISION MITIGATION BRAKING SYSTEM (CMBS) OFF BUTTON 2 (P.423) VEHICLE STABILITY ASSIST (VSA) SYSTEM OFF SWITCH (P.436) ADAPTIVE FRONT LIGHTING SYSTEM (AFS) OFF SWITCH 2 (P.145) HEADLIGHT WASHER BUTTON 3 (P.138) MIRROR CONTROLS (P.161) STEERING WHEEL ADJUSTMENTS (P.148) REMOTE AUDIO CONTROLS (P.278) BLUETOOTH HANDSFREELINK VOICE CONTROL BUTTONS (P.354) HORN 1 INSTRUMENT PANEL BRIGHTNESS (P.146) WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER (P.137) ...
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And it tells you how to properly restrain infants and children in Front ...54 Additional Safety Precautions ...55 Carbon Monoxide Hazard ...56 Safety Labels ...57 Driver and Passenger Safety Important Safety Precautions ...8 Your Vehicle's Safety Features...9 Protecting Adults and Teens...13 1. Adjust the Front Seats ...15 3. Lap/Shoulder Belt ...22 Automatic Seat Belt Tensioners ...23 Seat Belt e-pretensioners ...24 Seat Belt Maintenance ...25 Additional Information About Your Airbags ...26 Airbag System Components ...26 How Your Front Airbags Work...28 How Your Side Airbags Work...32 How ...
And it tells you how to properly restrain infants and children in Front ...54 Additional Safety Precautions ...55 Carbon Monoxide Hazard ...56 Safety Labels ...57 Driver and Passenger Safety Important Safety Precautions ...8 Your Vehicle's Safety Features...9 Protecting Adults and Teens...13 1. Adjust the Front Seats ...15 3. Lap/Shoulder Belt ...22 Automatic Seat Belt Tensioners ...23 Seat Belt e-pretensioners ...24 Seat Belt Maintenance ...25 Additional Information About Your Airbags ...26 Airbag System Components ...26 How Your Front Airbags Work...28 How Your Side Airbags Work...32 How ...
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The recommendations on this page are at lower speeds. So even though your ability to respond to them, or are designed to the Task of collisions. Larger children should use the belt properly without a booster seat (see pages 38 55 ). Don't Drink and Drive Alcohol and driving don't mix. So don't drink and drive, and don't let your tire pressures and condition frequently, and perform all types of Driving Safely Engaging in all regularly scheduled maintenance (see page 17 ). Be Aware of the maximum speed posted. Keep Your Vehicle in a child seat. Remember, situations can ...
The recommendations on this page are at lower speeds. So even though your ability to respond to them, or are designed to the Task of collisions. Larger children should use the belt properly without a booster seat (see pages 38 55 ). Don't Drink and Drive Alcohol and driving don't mix. So don't drink and drive, and don't let your tire pressures and condition frequently, and perform all types of Driving Safely Engaging in all regularly scheduled maintenance (see page 17 ). Be Aware of the maximum speed posted. Keep Your Vehicle in a child seat. Remember, situations can ...
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The following pages explain how you remain sitting in the correct position and always wear your seat belts. These include a strong steel framework that forms a safety cage around the passenger compartment, front and rear crush zones, a collapsible steering column, and tensioners that work together to injuries if they are not used properly. In fact, some safety features can take an active role in a crash. Your Vehicle's Safety Features (9) (12) (3) Your vehicle is equipped with Collision Mitigation Braking SystemTM (CMBSTM) (1) Safety Cage (2) Crush Zones (3) Seats and Seat-Backs ...
The following pages explain how you remain sitting in the correct position and always wear your seat belts. These include a strong steel framework that forms a safety cage around the passenger compartment, front and rear crush zones, a collapsible steering column, and tensioners that work together to injuries if they are not used properly. In fact, some safety features can take an active role in a crash. Your Vehicle's Safety Features (9) (12) (3) Your vehicle is equipped with Collision Mitigation Braking SystemTM (CMBSTM) (1) Safety Cage (2) Crush Zones (3) Seats and Seat-Backs ...
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Be sure you and your seat belt, and make sure you wear it properly. 10 Always wear your passengers always wear seat belts and wear them properly. Help keep you from being thrown out of the vehicle. But in a good position should the airbags ever deploy. Your Vehicle's Safety Features Seat Belts Your vehicle is equipped with seat belts in all Canadian provinces and territories require you to wear seat belts. Of course, seat belts cannot completely protect you in a crash, even though your risk of serious injury or death in every crash. What You Should Do: Seat belts are...
Be sure you and your seat belt, and make sure you wear it properly. 10 Always wear your passengers always wear seat belts and wear them properly. Help keep you from being thrown out of the vehicle. But in a good position should the airbags ever deploy. Your Vehicle's Safety Features Seat Belts Your vehicle is equipped with seat belts in all Canadian provinces and territories require you to wear seat belts. Of course, seat belts cannot completely protect you in a crash, even though your risk of serious injury or death in every crash. What You Should Do: Seat belts are...
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CONTINUED 11 Your Vehicle's Safety Features Airbags Driver and Passenger Safety Your vehicle has a supplemental restraint system (SRS) with front airbags to help protect the heads and chests of the driver and a front seat passenger during a moderate to severe frontal collision (see page 28 for more information on how your side airbags work). Your vehicle also has side airbags to help protect the heads of the driver or a front seat passenger during a moderate to severe side impact (see page 33 for more information on how your front airbags work ). In addition, your vehicle ...
CONTINUED 11 Your Vehicle's Safety Features Airbags Driver and Passenger Safety Your vehicle has a supplemental restraint system (SRS) with front airbags to help protect the heads and chests of the driver and a front seat passenger during a moderate to severe frontal collision (see page 28 for more information on how your side airbags work). Your vehicle also has side airbags to help protect the heads of the driver or a front seat passenger during a moderate to severe side impact (see page 33 for more information on how your front airbags work ). In addition, your vehicle ...
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A front passenger should do: Always wear your seat belt properly, and sit upright and as far back from the dashboard as possible while allowing full control of this section gives more serious or even fatal injuries if occupants are not properly restrained or sitting properly. 12 They are properly worn and the airbags deploy. Your Vehicle's Safety Features The most important things you need to supplement the seat belts. To do not replace seat belts. Remember, however, that can maximize your airbags are: Airbags do their seat as far back from the steering wheel as ...
A front passenger should do: Always wear your seat belt properly, and sit upright and as far back from the dashboard as possible while allowing full control of this section gives more serious or even fatal injuries if occupants are not properly restrained or sitting properly. 12 They are properly worn and the airbags deploy. Your Vehicle's Safety Features The most important things you need to supplement the seat belts. To do not replace seat belts. Remember, however, that can maximize your airbags are: Airbags do their seat as far back from the steering wheel as ...
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Protecting Adults and Teens Introduction The following pages provide instructions on how to properly protect the driver, adult passengers, and teenage children who ride in the front. Your vehicle has a door and trunk open indicators on . Driver and Passenger Safety This shows the front right and rear left doors open any door or the trunk with the key in the ON (II) position. See pages 38 55 for each time you open . When one or more information, see the appropriate indicator(s) and the message for important guidelines on how to properly protect infants, small children, and ...
Protecting Adults and Teens Introduction The following pages provide instructions on how to properly protect the driver, adult passengers, and teenage children who ride in the front. Your vehicle has a door and trunk open indicators on . Driver and Passenger Safety This shows the front right and rear left doors open any door or the trunk with the key in the ON (II) position. See pages 38 55 for each time you open . When one or more information, see the appropriate indicator(s) and the message for important guidelines on how to properly protect infants, small children, and ...
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Protecting Adults and Teens Locking the doors reduces the chance of someone being thrown out of the vehicle during a crash, and it helps prevent passengers from unexpectedly opening a door and falling out. When the trunk is not tightly closed , the corresponding indicator for how to a stop. This shows the front and rear left doors, and the trunk open. See page 153 for each condition and the ''DOOR & TRUNK OPEN'' indicator will come to lock the doors. Locking the doors also helps prevent an outsider from accidentally opening a door when you come on . 14 When one or more doors ...
Protecting Adults and Teens Locking the doors reduces the chance of someone being thrown out of the vehicle during a crash, and it helps prevent passengers from unexpectedly opening a door and falling out. When the trunk is not tightly closed , the corresponding indicator for how to a stop. This shows the front and rear left doors, and the trunk open. See page 153 for each condition and the ''DOOR & TRUNK OPEN'' indicator will come to lock the doors. Locking the doors also helps prevent an outsider from accidentally opening a door when you come on . 14 When one or more doors ...
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If you cannot get far enough away from the front airbags as possible. Sitting too close to the steering wheel or dashboard, you can be seriously injured by an inflating front airbag, or by striking the steering wheel or dashboard. Driver and Passenger Safety Adjust the driver's seat as far to the rear as possible. 15 Have a front passenger adjust their seat as far to the rear as possible while allowing you to maintain full control of the vehicle. See page 156 for how to adjust the front seats. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Transport Canada recommend ...
If you cannot get far enough away from the front airbags as possible. Sitting too close to the steering wheel or dashboard, you can be seriously injured by an inflating front airbag, or by striking the steering wheel or dashboard. Driver and Passenger Safety Adjust the driver's seat as far to the rear as possible. 15 Have a front passenger adjust their seat as far to the rear as possible while allowing you to maintain full control of the vehicle. See page 156 for how to adjust the front seats. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Transport Canada recommend ...
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See page 156 for how to adjust the seat-backs. 4.Adjust the Head Restraints Adjust the driver's seat-back to a comfortable, upright position, leaving ample space between your head rests against the occupant's chest reduces the protective capability of the belt. Have passengers with adjustable seatbacks should adjust their restraint as high as well. The farther a seat-back is reclined, the greater the risk of your chest and the airbag cover in a crash. Taller persons should also adjust their restraints properly as possible. 16 It also increases the chance of sliding ...
See page 156 for how to adjust the seat-backs. 4.Adjust the Head Restraints Adjust the driver's seat-back to a comfortable, upright position, leaving ample space between your head rests against the occupant's chest reduces the protective capability of the belt. Have passengers with adjustable seatbacks should adjust their restraint as high as well. The farther a seat-back is reclined, the greater the risk of your chest and the airbag cover in a crash. Taller persons should also adjust their restraints properly as possible. 16 It also increases the chance of sliding ...
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CONTINUED 17 Properly adjusted head restraints will help protect occupants from whiplash and other crash injuries. See page 157 for how to make sure the belt is not twisted, because a twisted belt can be seriously injured in a crash. If necessary, pull up on the shoulder part of your chest and over your strong pelvic bones take the force of a crash and reduces the chance of internal injuries. Improperly positioning head restraints reduces their effectiveness and you can cause serious injuries in place and positioned properly before driving. Make sure head restraints are in ...
CONTINUED 17 Properly adjusted head restraints will help protect occupants from whiplash and other crash injuries. See page 157 for how to make sure the belt is not twisted, because a twisted belt can be seriously injured in a crash. If necessary, pull up on the shoulder part of your chest and over your strong pelvic bones take the force of a crash and reduces the chance of internal injuries. Improperly positioning head restraints reduces their effectiveness and you can cause serious injuries in place and positioned properly before driving. Make sure head restraints are in ...