GMC 2003 Sierra 1500 Pickup Owner's Manual page 62

A rear seat is a safer place to secure a forward-facing
child restraint. If your need to secure a forward-facing
child restraint in the front seat position, see Where to Put
the Restraint
on
page 1-41.
if yoar vehicle has the AIR BAG OFF switch and you
need to secure a rear-facing child restraint in the
right front passenger's seat, the passenger's air bag
must be turned
off.
See Air Bag Off Switch on page 1-68
for more on this, including important safet\/ hformation.
A child in a rear-facing --1ild restraint car. -e
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger's air bag inflates. This is because
the back of the rear facing child restraint
would be very close to the inflating air bag. Be
sure the air bag is off before using a
rear-facing child restraint in the right front seat
position.
Even though the Passenger Sensing System
and/or AIR BAG OFF switch are designed to
turn off the passenger's frontal air bag under
CAUTION: (Continued)
certain conditions, 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. General Motors
therefore recommends that rear-facing child
restraints be transported in vehicles with a
rear seat that will accommodate a rear-facing
child restraint, whenever possible.
I
Regular Cab and Extended Cab Models: Your vehicle
has a right front passenger air bag. There's a switch
on the instrument panel that you can use to turn off the
right front passenger's air bag when you need to
secure a rear-facing child restraint at the right front
passenger's position. See the following illustration. Your
switch may vary slightly. See Air Bag Off Switch on
page 1-68 for more on this, including important safety
information.
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