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WARNING
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Improperly installed child safety seats in-
crease the risk of serious personal injury and
death in a collision.
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Always make sure that the safety belt re-
tractor is locked when installing a child
safety seat. An unlocked safety belt retrac-
tor cannot hold the child safety seat in place
during no rma
l
driving or in a crash.
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Always buckle the child safety seat firmly in
place even if a child is not sitting in it. A
loose child safety seat can fly around d uring
a sudden stop or in a collision
.
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If the backrest is not securely latched, the
child and the child restrain
t
will be
t
hrown
forward together with the backrest and will
strike parts of the vehicle interior. The ch ild
can be seriously injured or killed.
- Never install rearward -facing child safety
seats or infant carriers on the front passen-
ger seat. A child will be seriously injured and
can be killed when the passenger airbag in-
flates.
- The inflating a irbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the ch ild safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof
.
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Always install rearward-fac ing ch ild safety
seats or infant carriers on the rear seat
.
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Forward-fac ing ch ild safety seats or infant
carriers installed on the front passenger's
seat may inte rfere with the deployment of
the a irbag and cause serious injury to the
child.
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It is safe
r
to install a forward-fac ing ch ild
safety seat on the rear seat.
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Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child restrained in a veh icle is
being used
¢page 151.
Spec ia
l
pre caut ions
apply when installing a child safety seat on
the front passenger seat¢
page 130, Child
restraints on the front seat
-
some impor-
tant things to know.
Ch ild
safety
A
WARNING
Always take special precautions if you must
install a forward or rearward-facing child re-
stra int on the front passenger's seat in excep-
tional situations:
- Whenever a forward or rearward-fac ing
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
d
esc ribed¢
page 139, Monitoring
the Advanced Airbag System.
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Take the child restr aint off t he 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.
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Improper installation of child restraints can
reduce their effectiveness or even prevent
them from providing any protect ion.
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An imprope rly installed child restraint can
interfere with the airbag as it deploys and
serious ly injure or even kill the chi ld.
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Always care fully follow the manufacturer's
instr uctions provided with the child safety
seat or carr ier.
- Never place add itiona
l
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
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Forward-facing child restra ints:
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Always make sure the forward-facing seat
has been des igned and certified by its man
-
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side airbag
.
- Never put the forward-facing child restraint
up, against or very nea
r
the instrument pan-
el.
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Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost posit ion in the seat's fore and aft
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161
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