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- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child restrained in a vehicle is
being used
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page 168 . Special precautions
apply when installing a child safety seat on
the front passenger seat
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page 149, Child
restraints on the front seat - some impor-
tant things to know.
A
WARNING
Always take special precaut ions if you must
install a forward or rearward-fac ing child re-
straint on the front passenger's seat in excep-
tional situations:
- Whenever a forward or rearward-facing
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 described
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page 158, Monitoring
the Advanced Airbag System.
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- Take the child restraint off the front passen-
ger seat and install it properly 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 installation of child restraints can
reduce their effect iveness or even prevent
them from providing any protection .
-An improperly installed child restraint can
interfere with the airbag as it deploys and
seriously injure or even kill the child .
- Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instructions provided with the child safety
seat or car rier.
- Never place additional 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
Forward-fac ing child restraints :
- Always ma ke sure the forward-fac ing seat
has been designed and certified by its man-
ufact urer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side airbag .
Ch ild safety
- Never put the forward-facing child restraint
up, against or very near the instrument pan-
el.
- Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest position in the up and down ad-
justment range and move it back to the
rearmost posit ion in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment range, as far away from the air-
bag as possible, before installing the for-
ward-facing child restraint.
- Always make sure that the safety belt upper
anchorage is behind the child rest raint and
not next to or in front of the child restraint
so that the safety be lt will be properly posi-
tioned.
- Make sure that t he
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignition is switched on.
A
WARNING
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Rearward-facing child restraints:
- A child in a rearward-fac ing child safety seat
installed on the front passenger seat will be
serious ly injured and can be killed if the
front airbag inflates - even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System .
- The inflating airbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the child safety seat and child
aga inst the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof .
- Always be especially carefu l if you must in-
stall a rearward facing child safety seat on
the front passenger seat in except ional cir-
cumstances .
- A t ight tether strap on a rearward-facing
child restraint attached to the front passen-
ger seat can put too much pressure on the
weight -mat in the seat and reg ister a heav i-
er weight in the Advanced Airbag System.
The heavier weight reg istered can make the
system work as though an adult were on the
seat and deploy the Advanced Airbag when
it must be suppressed causing serious or
even fata l injury to the child .
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