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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Form No. 8R21-EA-02G

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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. Furthermore, 
leaning over or against the doors 
could block the side air bag 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. 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.

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