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Essential Safety Equipment

Child-Restraint

Never use a rear-facing child-restraint 

system in the front seat with an air bag 

that could deploy:

Rear-facing child-restraint systems 

on the front seat are particularly 

dangerous.

Even in a moderate collision, the 

child-restraint system can be hit 

by a deploying air bag and moved 

violently backward resulting in 

serious injury or death to the child. 

Even though you may feel assured 

that the front passenger air bag will 

not deploy based on the fact that the 

front passenger air bag deactivation 

indicator light illuminates, you should 

not use a rear-facing child-restraint 

system in the front seat.

Do not allow a child or anyone to lean 

over or against the side window of a 

vehicle with side and curtain air bags:

It is dangerous to allow anyone to lean 

over or against the side window, the 

area of the front passenger seat, the 

front and rear window pillars and the 

roof edge along both sides from which 

the side and curtain air bags deploy, 

even if a child-restraint system is used. 

The impact of inflation from a side or 

curtain air bag could cause serious 

injury or death to an out of position 

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. 

Take special care not to allow a child to 

lean over or against the side window, 

even if the child is seated in a child-

restraint system.

Front Passenger's Seat Child-Restraint 

System Installation (With Front 

Passenger Occupant Classification 

System)

1.  Make sure the ignition is switched off.

2.  Slide the seat as far back as possible.

3.  Place the child-restraint system on the 

seat without putting your weight on 

the seat and fasten the seat belt. See 

the manufacturer's instructions on the 

child-restraint system for belt routing 

instructions.

4.  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.

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