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- The child and the passenger can also in-
jure each other in a n accident .
- Never install rear-facing chi ld safety seats
or infant carriers on the front passenger
seat. A child will be serious ly injured and
can be killed when the passenger airbag in-
flates - even with an Advanced Airbag Sys-
tem.
- The inflating a irbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the ch ild safety seat and chi ld
against the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof.
- Always install rear-facing child safety seats
o r infant carriers on the rear seat.
- Make sure there is enough space in front of
the ch ild in t he child seat. If necessary, ad-
just the ang le and posit ion of the seat in
front of the child sea t .
- Forward-fac ing ch ild safety seats installed
on the front passenger's seat can inte rfe re
with the airbag when it inflates and cause
serious injury to the child . Always insta ll for-
ward-facing child safety seats on the rear
seat.
- If exceptional circumstances require the use
of a forward-facing child restraint on the
front passenger's seat, the child's safety
and well-being require that the following
special precautions be taken:
- Make sure the forward-fa cing seat has
been designed and certif ied by its manu-
facturer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side airbag.
- Always care fully follow the manufacturer's
instr uctions provided with the child safety
seat or carrier.
- Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest position in the up and down
adjustment range and move it back to the
rearmost posit ion in the seat's fore and
aft adjustment range, as far away from
the airbag as possible, before installing
the forward-fac ing ch ild restraint .
- Always make sure that the safety be lt up-
per anchorage is behind the child restra int
and not next to or in front of the child re-
Ch ild safety
straint so that the safety belt will be prop-
erly pos it ioned.
- Always make sure that nothing prevents
the front passenger's seat from being
moved to the rearmost position in its fore
and aft adjustment range.
- Always make sure that the backrest is in
the upright posit ion.
- Never place or use any elect rical device
(such as a laptop, CD player, electronic
games device, power inverter or seat heat-
er for child seats) on the front passenger
seat if the device is connected to the 12-
volt socket or the cigarette lighter soc ket.
- If a seat heater has been retrofitted or
othe rwise added to t he fron t passenger
seat, neve r insta ll any child rest raint sys-
tem on t his seat.
- Make su re that there a re no wet objects
(such as a wet towe l) and no water or oth-
er liquids on the front passenger sea t
cush ion .
- Never place objects o n the sea t (such as a
laptop, CD player, elect ronic games de -
vice, power inverter or seat heater for
child seats). These may inf luence the elec-
trical capacitance meas ured by t he capac i-
tive passenger detection system and can
also fly around in an accident and cause
serious personal injury.
- Always buckle the child safety seat firm ly in
place even if a ch ild is not sitt ing in it. A
loose child safety seat can fly around dur ing
a sudde n stop or in a collision .
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever us ing a child restrained in a vehicle is
be ing used ~
page 140, Safety belts,
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page 148, Airbag system
and
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page 172, Child safe ty.
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WARNING
To reduce the risk of serious injury, ma ke sure
t hat the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF ligh t
comes on and stays on whenever a child re-
straint is installed on the front passenger seat
and the ignit ion is switched on.
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