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Child Safety
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. 218
Schemat ic overview : installat ion of t he at-
ta chments appl icable to a L ATCH seat
Fig. 219
Schematic overview: inst allation of the sea t
using the vehicle's safety belt system
.. When using the vehicle safety be lt 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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the LATCH attachments .
.. Push the child safety seat down with your
full weight to get the safety belt really t ight
so that the seat cannot move forward or
sideways more than one inch (2.5 cm)
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.. If the child safety seat is eq uipped wit h a
tether strap, attach it to the tether anchors
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.. Secure unused safety be lts on the rear seat
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A toddler or child is usually too large for an in-
fant restra int if it is more than one year old
and weighs more than 20 lbs. (9 kg).
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 certified for their size and weight
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fig . 218 and
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fig . 219 .
The airbag on the passenger side makes the
front seat a potentia lly dangerous place for a
child to ride. The front seat is not the safest
place for a child in a forward-facing child safe-
ty seat . It is a very dangerous place for a n in-
fant or a larger child in a rearward-facing seat.
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WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the
wrong child safety seat or improp e rly in-
stalling a child restraint increases the risk
of serious personal injury and death in a
collision or other emergency situation .
- Children on the front seat of any car,
-
even with Advanced Airbags, can be seri-
ously injured or even killed when an air-
bag inflates . A child in a rearward-facing
child safety seat installed on the front
passenger seat will be seriously injured
and can be killed if the front airbag in-
f lates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System .
- The inflating airbag will hit the ch ild
safety seat or infant carrier with great
force and will smash the child safety seat
and child against the backrest, center
armrest, doo r or roof.
- Always install rear-facing child safety
seats on t he rear seat .
- If you must install a rearwa rd facing
child safety seat on th e front passenger
seat because of exceptiona l circumstan-
ces and the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on and stay on, im-
mediately insta ll the rear-facing child
safety seat in a rear seating position and
have the airbag system inspected by your
Audi dealer.
- The rear side of the child safety seat
should be pos itioned as close as possible
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