Suzuki 2008 XL7 Owner's Manual page 40

SEATS AND RESTRAINT SYSTEMS
information on this including important
safety information.
A label on your sun visor says, "Never put
a rear-facing child seat in the front." This is
because the risk to the rear-facing child is
so great, if the airbag deploys.
WARNING
A child in a rear-facing child restraint
can be seriously injured or killed if
the right front passenger's airbag
inflates. This is because the back of
the rear-facing child restraint would
be very close to the inflating airbag.
Even though the passenger sensing
system is designed to turn off the
right front passenger's frontal airbag
if the system detects a rear-facing
child restraint, 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
secured in a rear seat, even if the air-
bag is off.
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If you secure a forward-facing child
restraint in the right front seat,
always move the front passenger
seat as far back as it will go. It is bet-
ter to secure the child restraint in a
rear seat. Refer to "Passenger Sens-
ing System" in this section for addi-
tional information.
If your vehicle does not have a rear seat
that will accommodate a rear-facing child
restraint, we recommend that rear-facing
child restraints not be transported in your
vehicle, even if the airbag is off.
If your child restraint has the LATCH sys-
tem, refer to "Lower Anchors and Tethers
for Children (LATCH)" in this section for
how to install your child restraint using
LATCH. If you secure a child restraint
using a safety belt and it uses a top tether,
be
refer to "Lower Anchors and Tethers for
Children (LATCH)" in this section for top
tether anchor locations.
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Do not secure a child seat in a position
without a top tether anchor if a national or
local law requires that the top tether be
anchored, or if the instructions that come
with the child restraint say that the top
strap must be anchored.
WARNING
In Canada, the law requires that forward-
facing child restraints have a top tether,
and that the tether be attached.
You will be using the lap-shoulder belt to
secure the child restraint in this position.
Follow the instructions that came with the
child restraint.
1) Move the seat as far back as it will go
before securing the forward-facing child
restraint.
When the passenger sensing system
has turned off the right front passen-
ger's frontal airbag, the off indicator on
the passenger airbag status indicator
should light and stay lit when you start
the vehicle. Refer to "Passenger Airbag
Status Indicator" in "Warning Lights,
Gages, and Indicators" in the "Instru-
ment Panel" section.
2) Put the child restraint on the seat.
3) Pick up the latch plate, and run the lap
and shoulder portions of the vehicle's
safety belt through or around the
restraint. The child restraint instructions
will show you how.