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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Form No. 8S18-EA-03I

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Front Passenger

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s Seat Child-

Restraint System Installation

1. Slide the seat as far back as possible.

2. Secure the child-restraint system with 

the lap portion of the lap/shoulder belt. 
See the manufacturer

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s instructions on 

the child-restraint system for belt 
routing instructions.

3. To get the retractor into the automatic 

locking mode, pull the shoulder belt 
portion of the seat belt until the entire 
length of the belt is out of the retractor.

4. Push the child-restraint system firmly 

into the vehicle seat. Be sure the belt 
retracts as snugly as possible. Clicking 
from the retractor will be heard during 
retraction if the system is in automatic 
locking mode. If the belt does not lock 
the seat down tight, repeat the previous 
step and also this one.

Children and Seating Position with 
Side and Curtain Air Bags:
Allowing anyone to lean over or 
against the front door, the area of 
front seat, front and rear window 
pillars and the roof edge along both 
sides which the side and curtain air 
bags deploy even though using a 
child-restraint system is dangerous. If 
the vehicle is equipped with side and 
curtain air bags, the impact of 
inflation could cause serious injury 
or death to the child. Furthermore, 
leaning over or against the front door 
could block the side and curtain air 
bags and eliminate the advantages of 
supplemental protection. With the 
front air bag and the additional side 
air bag that comes out of the front 
seat, the rear seat is always a better 
location for children. Do not allow a 
child to lean over or against the 
doors, even if the child is seated in a 
child-restraint system.

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