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Essential Safety Equipment

Child-Restraint

Seating a child in a child-restraint system on the front passenger seat is dangerous 

under certain conditions 

(With Front Passenger Occupant Classification System)

:

Your vehicle is equipped with front passenger seat weight sensors. Even with the front 

passenger seat weight sensors, if you must use the front passenger seat to seat a child, 

using a child-restraint system on the front passenger seat under the following conditions 

increases the danger of the front passenger air bag deploying and could result in serious 

injury or death to the child.

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  The front passenger air bag deactivation indicator light does not illuminate when 

seating a child in the child-restraint system.

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  Luggage or other items are placed on the seat with the child in the child-restraint 

system.

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  A rear passenger or luggage pushing or pulling down on the front passenger 

seatback.

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  A rear passenger puts their feet on the front seat rails.

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  Luggage or other items are placed on the seatback or hung on the head restraint.

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  Heavy items are placed in the seatback map pocket.

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  The seat is washed.

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  Liquids are spilled on the seat.

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  The front passenger seat is moved backward, pushing into luggage or other items 

placed behind it.

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  The front passenger seatback contacts the rear seat.

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  Luggage or other items are placed between the front passenger seat and driver seat.

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  Any accessories, which might increase the total seated weight on the front passenger 

seat, are attached to the front passenger seat.

The designated positions with seat belts on the rear seats are the safest places for 

children. Always use seat belts and child restraints.

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.

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