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Essential Safety Equipment

Seat Belt Systems

Form No. 8S15-EA-03G

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Pregnant Women and Persons with Serious Medical Conditions

Pregnant women should wear seat belts. Ask your doctor for specific recommendations.
The lap belt should be worn SNUGLY AND AS LOW AS POSSIBLE OVER THE HIPS.
The shoulder belt should be worn across your shoulder properly, but never across the 
stomach area.
Persons with serious medical conditions also should wear seat belts. Check with your 
doctor for any special instructions regarding specific medical conditions.

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Emergency Locking Mode

If the belt has fully retracted, it will always be in the emergency locking mode until you 
move it into automatic locking mode by pulling the belt all the way out to its full length. In 
the emergency locking mode, the belt remains comfortable on the occupant and the 
retractor will lock in position during a collision.
If the belt feels tight and hinders comfortable movement while the vehicle is stopped or in 
motion, you may be in the automatic locking mode because you have pulled the belt too far 
out. To return to the more comfortable emergency locking mode, wait until you can stop 
the vehicle in a safe area, retract the belt fully to convert it back to emergency locking 
mode and then again extend it around you.

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Automatic Locking Mode

Always use the automatic locking mode to keep the child-restraint system from shifting to 
an unsafe position in the event of an accident. To get the seat belt into the automatic 
locking mode, pull it all the way out and connect it as instructed on the child-restraint 
system. It will retract down to the child-restraint system and stay locked on it. See the 
section on child restraint (page 2-13).

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