GMC Chevrolet Tahoe 2003 Manual page 62

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Where to Put the Restraint
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they
are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat. We,
therefore, recommend that child restraints be secured
in a rear seat including an infant riding in a rear-facing
infant seat, a child riding in a forward-facing child
seat and an older child riding in a booster seat. Never
put a child in a rear-facing child restraint in the right front
passenger seat unless your vehicle has the passenger
sensing system and the passenger air bag status
indicator shows off. Never put a rear facing child
restraint in the right front passenger seat unless the air
bag is off. Here is why:
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CAUTION:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger's air bag inflates. This is because
the back of the rear-facing child restraint
would be very close to the inflating air bag.
Be sure the air bag is off before using a
rear-facing child restraint in the right front seat
position.
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CAUTION: (Continued)
Even though the passenger sensing system is
designed to turn off the passenger's frontal air
bag 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. General Motors
therefore recommends that rear-facing child
restraints be secured in the rear seat whenever
possible, even if the air bag is off.
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 better to secure the child restraint in a
rear seat.

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