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A
WARNING
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Improperly installed child safety seats in-
crease the risk of serious personal injury and
death in a collision .
- Always make sure that the safety belt re-
tractor is locked when installing a child
safety seat . An unlocked safety belt retrac-
tor cannot hold the child safety seat in place
during norma l driving or in a crash.
- Always buckle the child safety seat firmly in
place even if a child is not sitting in it. A
loose child safety seat can fly around during
a sudden stop or in a collision .
- Always ma ke sure that the rear seat back-
rest to wh ich t he center rea r safety belt is
attached is secure ly latched whenever the
rear center safety belt is being used to se-
cure a child rest raint.
- If the backrest is not securely latched, the
child and the child restraint will be thrown
forward together with the backrest and will
strike parts of the vehicle interior. The child
can be seriously injured or killed.
- Never install rear-facing child 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 .
- The inflating airbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the child safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof.
- Always install rear-faci ng child safety seats
or infant carriers on the rear seat.
- Forward-fac ing child safety seats or infant
carriers inst alled on t he front passenge r's
seat may inte rfe re with t he deployment of
the airbag and cause serious injury to the
child.
- It is safe r to inst all a forward-fac ing child
safety seat on the rear seat.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child res t rained in a veh icle is
being used
r:o page 171.
Spec ial precautions
apply when installing a child safety seat on
the front passenger seat
¢
page 152, Child
Ch ild safety
restraints on the front seat - some impor-
tant things to know.
A
WARNING
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Always take special precautions if you must
install a forward or rearward-facing child re-
stra int on the front passenger's seat in excep-
tional situations:
- Whenever a forward or rearward-fac ing
child restraint is installed on the front pas-
senger seat, the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light must come on and stay on whenever
the ignition is switched on.
- If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not come on and stay on, perform the
checks desc ribed
r:o page 161, Monitoring
the Advanced Airbag System.
- Take the child restra int off t he front passen-
ge r seat and install it prope rly at one of the
rear seat positions if the
PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF
light does not stay on whenever
the ignition is switched on .
- Improper installat ion of child res t raints can
reduce their effectiveness or even prevent
them f rom providing any protect ion .
- An improperly installed child restraint can
interfere with the airbag as it deploys and
serio us ly injure or even kill the child.
- Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instr uctions provided with the child sa fety
seat or carr ier.
- Never place additiona l items on the seat
that can increase the total weight registered
by the weight-sensing mat and can cause in-
jury in a crash.
A
WARNING
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Forward-facing child restra ints:
- Always make sure the forward- facing seat
has been des igned and certified by its man-
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side airbag .
- Never put the forward-facing child restraint
up, against or very near the instrument pan-
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el.
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