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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. 217
Schematic overview: inst allat ion of the at-
tachments appl icable to a LATCH seat
Fig. 2 18
Schem at ic overview: installat ion of the seat
using th e vehicle's safety belt system
.. When using t he vehicle safety belt to insta ll
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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or install the seat using
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 equ ipped with a
tet her strap, attach it to the tether anchors
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.. Secure unused safety belts on the rear seat
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page 209.
A toddler or child is usually too large for an in-
fant restraint if it is more than one year old
and weighs more than 20 lbs. (9 kg).
Child S a f ety
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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 cert ified for t heir size and weight
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217and
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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 sea t is not the sa fest
place for a child in a forward -facing child safe -
ty seat . It is a
very
dangerous place for an in-
fant or a large r child in a rearward-facing seat .
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WARNING
Not usi ng a child safety seat, using the
wrong child safety seat or imprope 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 se ri-
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 serious ly injured
and can be killed if the front airbag in-
flates - even with an Advanced 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 against the backrest, center
armrest, doo r or roof.
- Always install rear-fac ing child safety
seats on the rear seat .
- If you must install a rearwa rd fac ing
child safety seat on the fro nt passenger
seat because of exceptional circumstan-
ces and t he
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 dea ler.
- The rear side of the child safety seat
should be pos itioned as close as poss ible
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