Knowing Your Vehicle Belts - Safety 1st onBoard 35 Air User Manual

4358-5480 US S1 onBoard Air 10/1/10
D-4 Knowing Your Vehicle Belts
Review your vehicle's owner manual for vehicle seat belt use
with child restraints. This is your best source for information
concerning your vehicle.
Not all vehicle belts will work with this child restraint. This
child restraint must be tightly locked in place at all times,
during travel. You must determine if your vehicles belts are
compatible with this child restraint.
Vehicle Belts
• Automatic/Passive vehicle seat belts
You MUST have a vehicle lap belt to install any child restraint.
An automatic (passive) shoulder vehicle belt may or may not
have a separate vehicle lap belt. Consult your vehicle owner's
manual.
• Vehicle belts in center of the door
or side panel
You must move the child restraint to
another seating location. Consult your
vehicle owner's manual.
• Vehicle belts that are in front of
the seat bight
You may need to move the child
restraint to another seating location.
Consult your vehicle owner's manual.
• ELR (Emergency Locking Retractor) vehicle belts
These lap and shoulder vehicle belts only lock in a sudden
stop or crash, and do not properly secure a child restraint
alone. Consult your vehicle owner's manual.
To learn if you have this type of vehicle
belt, gently pull the vehicle belt all the
way out of the retractor (spool), let it
return several inches, then pull on it
again. If it moves freely, it is an ELR
vehicle belt. If it is locked and will not allow any more vehicle
belt to come out, it is a switchable retractor.
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ELR lap-only vehicle belts MUST NOT be used
with this child restraint.
• Switchable retractor
These vehicle belts switch from ELR to ALR (Automatic
Locking Retractor). You must have the vehicle belts in the
locking mode to use them. Follow the instructions in the
installation sections.
• ALR (Automatic Locking Retractor)
These vehicle belts lock after pulling the webbing out and
letting the vehicle belt go back into the retractor an inch or
two. Follow the instructions in the installation sections.
Vehicle Latch Plates
a locking clip. Consult your vehicle owner's manual.
If the latch plate slides up and down on the vehicle belt, and
you have an ELR retractor, you MUST use a locking clip to
install the child restraint. You may not need to use the locking
clip with a switchable or ALR retractor. Consult your vehicle
owner's manual.
• Check the Latch Plates
on Your Lap and
Locking
Shoulder Belt
Latch
Grasp the tongue portion of
Plate
the latch plate (the part
that goes inside the
Sliding
buckle) and pull straight
Latch
out, inline with the vehicle
Plate
lap belt. If the latch plate
does not slide up and
down the vehicle belt, you
have a locking latch plate.
You should not need to use
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