1995 Pontiac Grand Am Owner's Manual - Page 149

Avoid needless heavybraking. Some people drive in spurts -- heavy acceleration followed by heavy braking -- rather thankeeping pace with traffic.This is a mistake. Your brakes may nothave time to cool between hard btops. Your brakes will wear out much faster if you do a lot of heavy braking.If you keeppace with the traffic and allow realistic following distances, you will elimiaate a lot of unnecessary braking. That means better biaking and longer brake life. Anti-Lock Brakes (ABS) Your Pontiac has an advanced electronic braking system that will help prevent braking skid. a 1 This lighton the instrument panel will come on briefly when you start your vehicle. If your engine ever stops while you're driving, brake If normally but don't pump your brakes. you do, the pedal may get harder to push down.If your engine stops, you will. have some power brakeassist. But still you will use it'when you brake. Once the power assist is used up, it may t&e longer to stop and the brake pedal push. will be harder to When you start your vehicle,or when you begin to drive away, you may hear momentary motor or clicking a noise. And you may even notice that your brake pedal moves a little while this is going on. Thisis the ABS system testing itself. If there's a problem with the anti-lock brake system, the anti-lock brake system warning light will stay on or flash. See "Anti-Lock Brake System Warning Light" in the Index. 4-6