Securing A Child Restraint Designed For The Latch System - GMC 2004 Canyon Owner's Manual

Securing a Child Restraint
Designed for the LATCH System
(Models with an Air Bag Off Switch)
Regular Cab Models and Extended
Cab Models without Rear Seats
Your vehicle has air bags. Regular cab models and
extended cab models without rear seats have an air bag
off switch on the instrument panel you can use to turn off
the right front passenger's frontal air bag. See Air Bag
Off Switch on page 1-70 for more on this including
important safety information.
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Unless the right front passenger's frontal air bag has
been turned off, never put a rear-facing child restraint in
this vehicle. Here is why:
CAUTION:
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A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger's frontal air bag inflates. This is
because the back of the rear-facing child
restraint would be very close to the inflating
air bag. Do not use a rear-facing child restraint
in this vehicle unless the air bag has been
turned off.
Even though the air bag off switch is designed
to turn off the right front passenger's frontal
air bag, no system is fail-safe, and no one can
guarantee that an air bag will not deploy under
some unusual circumstance, even though it is
turned off. We recommend that rear-facing
child restraints be transported in vehicles with
a rear seat that will accommodate a rear-facing
child restraint, whenever possible.