Essential Safety Equipment; Front seat passenger position- Page 39

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Front seat passenger position

1. Slide the seat as far back as possible.

2. Secure the system with the lap por-

tion of the lap/shoulder belt.

3. Pull down on the shoulder belt and

then grasp the shoulder belt and lap
belt together.

4. While holding the shoulder and lap

belt portions together, route the tongue
through the child seat according to
the child seat manufacturer’s instruc-
tions. Be sure the belt webbing is not
twisted.

5. Insert the belt tongue into the proper

buckle (the buckle closest to the
direction the tongue is coming from)
for that seating position until you
hear and feel the latch engage. Make
sure the tongue is latched securely by
pulling on it.

6. To put the retractor in the automatic

locking mode, grasp the shoulder
portion of the belt and pull downward
until all of the belt is retracted and a
click is heard.

7. Allow the belt to retract. The belt

will click as it retracts to indicate it
is in the automatic locking mode.

8. Pull the lap belt portion across the

child seat toward the buckle and
pull up on the shoulder belt while
pushing down on the seat.

9. Allow the seat belt to retract to

remove any slack in the belt.

10. Before placing the child in the seat,

forcibly tilt the seat forward and back
to make sure the seat is securely held
in place.

11. Try to pull the belt out of the retrac-

tor to make sure the retractor is in
the automatic locking mode. (You
should not be able to pull more belt
out.) If the retractor is not locked,
unbuckle the belt and repeat steps 3
through 10.