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Convertible child safety seats
Properly used convertible child safety seats can
help protect toddlers and children over age one
who weigh between 20 and 40 lbs. (9 and 18 kg)
in a crash.
Fig. 174
Schemat ic overview: installatio n of the attac h-
ments app licable to a LATCH seat
Fig. 175
Schematic overview: installat ion of t he seat using
the vehicle's safe ty belt syste m
.. When using the vehicle safety belt to install a
child safety seat, you must first activate the
convertible locking feature on the safety belt to
prevent the child safety seat from moving
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attachments .
.. Push the child safety seat down with your fu ll
weight to get the safety be lt really t ight so that
the seat cannot move forward o r sideways
more than one inch (2.5 cm)
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.. If the child safety seat is equipped with a tether
strap, attach it to the tether anchors
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.. Secure unused safety belts on the rear seat
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weighs more than 20 lbs . (9 kg).
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Child safety
Toddlers and children who are older than one
year up to about 4 years old and weigh more than
20 lbs. (9 kg) up to 40 lbs . (18 kg) must always
be properly restrained in a child safety seat certi -
fied for their size and weight
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The airbag on the passenger side makes the front
seat a potentially dangerous place for a child to
ride. The front seat is not the safest place for a
child in a forward -facing child safety seat. It is a
very dangerous place for an infant or a larger
child in a rearward-facing seat .
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WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, us ing the wrong
child safety seat or imprope rly instal ling a
child restraint increases the risk of serious
personal injury and death in a collision or oth -
er emergency situation.
- Children on the front seat of any car, even
with Advanced Airbags, can be seriously in-
jured or even killed when an airbag inflates.
A child in a rearward-facing ch ild safety seat
installed on the front passenger seat will be
seriously injured and can be killed if the
front airbag inflates - even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System .
- The inflating airbag will hit the ch ild safety
seat or infant carr ier with great force and
will smash the child safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof.
-Al ways install rear-fa cing child safety seats
on the rear seat .
- If you must insta ll a rearward facing child
safety seat on the front passenger seat be-
cause of exceptional circumstances and the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not
come on and stay on, immediately install
the rea r-facing child safety seat in a rear
seating position and have the a irbag system
inspected by your Audi dealer .
- The rear side of the ch ild safety seat shou ld
be positioned as close as possible to the
backrest on the veh icle seat. Adjust or re-
move the rear seat head rest raint if it is dif-
ficult to install the ch ild seat with the head
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