Section 5 Service and Appearance Care

Service

5-3

Doing Your Own Service Work

5-4

Adding Equipment to the Outside of Your

 

Vehicle

5-5

Fuel

5-5

Gasoline Octane

5-5

Gasoline Specifications

5-5

California Fuel

5-6

Additives

5-6

Fuels in Foreign Countries

5-7

Filling Your Tank

5-8

Filling a Portable Fuel Container

5-10

Checking Things Under the Hood

5-10

Hood Release

5-11

Engine Compartment Overview

5-12

Engine Oil

5-16

Engine Oil Life System

5-19

Engine Air Cleaner/Filter

5-21

Automatic Transaxle Fluid

5-22

Engine Coolant

5-25

Radiator Pressure Cap

5-28

Engine Overheating

5-28

Overheated Engine Protection

 

Operating Mode

5-30

Cooling System

5-30

Power Steering Fluid

5-36

Windshield Washer Fluid

5-37

Brakes

5-38

Battery

5-41

Jump Starting

5-42

All-Wheel Drive

5-47

Bulb Replacement

5-49

Halogen Bulbs

5-49

Headlamps, Front Turn Signal, Sidemarker,

 

and Parking Lamps

5-49

Front Turn Signal, Sidemarker and Parking

 

Lamps

5-51

Taillamps, Turn Signal, and Stoplamps

5-51

Taillamps and Back-Up Lamps

5-52

Replacement Bulbs

5-53

Windshield Wiper Blade Replacement

5-53

Tires

5-55

Tire Sidewall Labelling

5-56

Tire Terminology and Definitions

5-58

Inflation - Tire Pressure

5-61

Check Tire Pressure System

5-62

Tire Inspection and Rotation

5-64

When It Is Time for New Tires

5-65

Buying New Tires

5-66

Uniform Tire Quality Grading

5-67

Wheel Alignment and Tire Balance

5-68

Wheel Replacement

5-68

 

5-1

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Buick 2005 manual Checking Things Under the Hood, Windshield Wiper Blade Replacement