Attaching A Child Seat Using The "Isofix" System - Skoda Octavia Owner's Manual

152 Transporting children safely
WARNING
● When transporting a child on the front passenger seat, please comply with
the appropriate national regulations regarding the use of child safety seats.
Switch off the front passenger airbag if necessary at a specialist garage or
switch it off with the switch for front passenger airbag ⇒ p age 146, Switch for
the front passenger airbag.
● The shoulder part of the seat belt must run approximately across the mid-
dle of the shoulder and fit snugly against the chest. It must on no account run
across the neck. The lap part of the seat belt must run across the pelvis and
fits snugly; it must not run over the belly. Tighten the belt webbing over your
hip if necessary.
● Please comply with any differing national legal regulations regarding the
use of child safety seats.

Attaching a child seat using the "ISOFIX" system

Fig. 136 Locking eyes (ISOFIX system)/Push the ISOFIX child seat into the installed mounting
funnels
There are two fixing eyes between the seat backrest and the seat cushion of the
front passenger seat for fixing the "ISOFIX" system child seat in place. The locking
eyes on the rear outside seats are located below the upholstery. The places are
marked with signs with the logo "ISOFIX"
Install child seat
Open the zip fasteners between the seat cushion and the seat backrest of the
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rear exterior seat.
– Insert the mounting funnels
backrest and the seat cushion
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- left.
A onto the locking eyes B between the seat
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136.
Push the notched arms of the child seat into the locking eyes in direction of
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arrow 1 , until they are heard to lock in place
– Pull on both sides of the child seat!
One can mount a child safety seat using the "ISOFIX" system quickly, easily and
reliably. Please pay close attention to instructions from the manufacturer of the
child safety seat when installing and removing the seat.
Child seats fitted with the "ISOFIX" system can only be mounted and fixed in a ve-
hicle fitted with an "ISOFIX" system when these child seats have been released
for this type of vehicle according to the ECE-R 44 standard.
Child safety seats with the fixing system "ISOFIX" can be obtained from ŠKODA
Original Accessories.
Complete installation instructions are enclosed with the child safety seat.
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WARNING
● The locking eyes have just been developed for child safety seats which use
the "ISOFIX" system. You should therefore never attach other child safety
seats, seat belts or objects to the locking eyes - hazard!
● Ask an authorised ŠKODA Service Partner whether a child seat which you
bought for another vehicle is recommended for use in your vehicle before us-
ing a child seat with "ISOFIX" system.
● Certain child seats which use the "ISOFIX" system can be attached with
standard three-point seat belts. Please pay close attention to instructions
from the manufacturer of the child safety seat when installing and removing
the seat.
Note
● Child seats which use the "ISOFIX" system are currently available for children
weighing up to about 18 kg. This corresponds to an age range up to 4 years.
● The child seats can also be fitted with the "Top Tether" system ⇒ p age 153.
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136.
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