Pontiac 2006 Automobile User Manual


 
Driver Information Center (DIC)
Your vehicle may have a Driver Information Center
(DIC). The DIC display gives you the status of many of
your vehicle’s systems. The DIC is also used to
display driver personalization menu modes and
warning/status messages. All messages will appear in
the DIC display, located at the bottom of the tachometer
on the instrument panel cluster.
The DIC buttons are
located on the left side of
the steering wheel.
q (Information): Press this button to scroll through
the vehicle information mode displays.
r (Reset): Press this button to reset some vehicle
information mode displays, select a personalization
menu mode setting, or acknowledge a warning
message.
Press and hold the information and reset buttons at the
same time for several seconds, then release the
buttons to enter the personalization menu. See DIC
Vehicle Personalization on page 3-40 for more
information.
DIC Operation and Displays
The DIC comes on when the ignition is on. The DIC has
different modes which can be accessed by pressing
the DIC buttons. The button functions are detailed in the
following.
Information Modes
q
(Information): Press this button to scroll through
the following vehicle information modes:
Odometer
Press the information button until the odometer is
displayed. This mode shows the total distance the
vehicle has been driven in either miles (mi) or
kilometers (km).
To change the DIC display to English or metric units,
see “UNITS” under DIC Vehicle Personalization on
page 3-40.
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