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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Form No. 8S15-EA-03G

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LATCH Child-Restraint System 
Installation Procedure

Before installing a rear-facing child-
restraint system, the passenger air bag 
must be deactivated (page 2-23).

1. Make sure to remove articles from 

behind the passenger seat that would 
prevent the seat from sliding back fully, 
and then slide the seat as far back as 
possible to insert the LATCH lower 
anchors between the seat bottom and 
the seatback.

2. Expand the area between the seat 

bottom and the seatback slightly to 
verify the locations of the LATCH 
lower anchors.

3. Secure the child-restraint system using 

BOTH LATCH lower anchors, 
following the child-restraint system 
manufacturer’s instruction, however if 
it uses an upper tether, it cannot be 
mounted properly in this vehicle as 
there is no safe way to anchor the 
tether.

NOTE

Before installing a child-restraint 
system, refer to "Passenger Air Bag 
Deactivation Switch" (page 2-23).

NOTE

The markings above the LATCH lower 
anchors indicate the locations of the 
LATCH lower anchors for the 
attachment of a child-restraint system.

Marking

LATCH 
lower anchor

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