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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

   8.   Switch the ignition ON and make sure 

the front passenger air bag deactivation 
indicator light illuminates after 
installing a child-restraint system on 
the front passenger seat.

If the front passenger air bag 
deactivation indicator light does not 
illuminate, remove the child-restraint 
system, switch the ignition to OFF, and 
then re-install the child-restraint system 
(page   2-52 ).

WARNING

  Do not seat a child in a child-restraint 
system on the front passenger seat if the 
front passenger air bag deactivation 
indicator light does not illuminate:

  While it is always better to install any 
child-restraint system on the rear seat, 
it is imperative that a child-restraint 
system  

ONLY 

 be used on the front 

passenger seat if the deactivation 
indicator light illuminates when the 
child is seated in the child-restraint 
system (page  2-52 ). Seating a child 
in a child-restraint system installed 
on the front passenger seat with the 
front passenger air bag deactivation 
indicator light not illuminated is 
dangerous. If this indicator light does 
not illuminate, this means that the 
front passenger front and side air 
bags, and seat belt pretensioner are 
ready for deployment. If an accident 
were to deploy an air bag, a child in 
a child-restraint system sitting in the 
front passenger seat could be seriously 
injured or killed. If the indicator light 
does not illuminate after seating a 
child in a child-restraint system on 
the front passenger seat, seat a child 
in a child-restraint system on the rear 
seat and consult an Authorized Mazda 
Dealer as soon as possible.