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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Form No. 8R29-EA-02I

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Front Passenger’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 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 this step.

Children and Seating Position with 
Side and Curtain Air Bags:
Allowing anyone to lean over or 
against the front or rear doors 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 person. 
Children are more likely to sleep in 
the vehicle; when they do, they are 
more at risk in the front passenger’s 
seat that have a side air bag because 
they may slump over into the path of 
the air bags.Furthermore, leaning 
over or against the doors 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 who are prone to 
sleeping. 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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