1997 Oldsmobile Silhouette Owner's Manual - Page 300

Service Your Oldsmobile retailer knows your vehicle best and wants you to be happy with it. We hope you'll go to your retailer for all your service needs. You'll get genuine GM parts and GM-trained and supported service people. We hope you'll want to keep your GM vehicle all GM. Genuine GM parts have one of these marks: Your vehicle has an air bag system. Before attempting to do your own service work, see "Servicing Your Air Bag-Equipped Oldsmobile" in the Index. You should keep a record with all parts receipts and list the mileage and the date of any service work you perform. See "Maintenance Record" in the Index. n Delco Doing Your Own Service Work If you want to do some of your own service work, Y 0'u'll want to get the proper Oldsmobile ServiceManual. It tells you much more about how to service your Oldsmobile than this manual can. To order the proper service manual, see "Serviceand Owner Publications" in the Index. . - You can be injured and your vehicle could be a damaged ifyou try to do service work on vehicle without knowing enough about it. Be sure you have sufficient knowledge, experience, the proper replacement parts and tools beforeyou attempt anyvehicle maintenance task. Be sure to use the proper nuts, bolts and other fasteners. "English" and "metric" fasteners canbe easily confused.If you use the wrong fasteners, parts can later break or fall off. You could be hurt. 6-2