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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Form No. 8Q44-EA-01K

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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 Air Bag:
Allowing anyone to lean over or 
against the front door is dangerous. If 
the vehicle is equipped with side air 
bags, the impact of an inflating side 
air bag 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 has a 
side air bag because they may slump 
over into the path of the seatback-
mounted air bag. If a child can’t be 
seated in the rear, do not allow the 
child to lean over or against the front 
door, even if the child is seated in a 
child-restraint system.

WARNING

NOTE

•

Inspect this function before each 
use of the child-restraint system. 
You should not be able to pull the 
shoulder belt out of the retractor 
while the system is in the automatic 
locking mode. When you remove 
the child-restraint system, be sure 
the belt fully retracts to return the 
system to emergency locking mode 
before occupants use the seat belts.

•

Follow the child-restraint system 
manufacturer’s instruction carefully.
Depending on the type of child-
restraint system, it may not employ 
seat belts which are in automatic 
locking mode.

J16L_EA.book  Page 43  Friday, February 22, 2002  11:34 AM