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Child Safety
The tension on the safety be lt for the front
passenger seat will be different for an adult
who is properly using the safety belt as com-
pared to the tension on the be lt when it is
used to attach a child restraint to the seat.
The sensor below the latch for the safety belt
for the front seat passenger measures the
Child restraints and Advanced Airbags
Regardless of the ch ild restraint t hat you use,
make sure that it has been certified to meet
United States Fede ral Motor Vehicle Safety
Standards and has been certified by its manu-
facturer for use with an airbag . If in excep-
tional circumstances you must use it on the
front passenger seat, caref ully read all of the
information on child safety and Advanced Air-
bags and heed all of the applicable WARN-
INGS. Make certain that the child restraint is
correctly recognized by the weight-sensing
mat inside the front passenge r seat, that the
fro nt passenger airbag is t urned off and that
the airbag status is a lways correctly signaled
by the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light.
Many types and models of child restra ints
have been ava ilable over the years, new mod -
e ls are int roduced regularly incorporating new
and improved designs and older models are
taken out of prod uction. Child restraints are
Subpart A - Car bed child restraints
Model
Ange l Guard Ange l Ride AA2403 FOF
Subpart B - Rear-facing child restraints
Model
Cen t ury SmartFit 4 543
Cosco Arriva 22-013PAW and base 22-999WHO
Evenflo Discovery Adjust Right 2 12
Evenflo First Choice 204
Graco Infant 8457
Graco Snugride
Peg Perego Primo Viaggio SIP IMUN00US
tension on the belt. The input from th is sen-
sor is then used with the weight to "decide",
whether there is a child restra int with a typical
1 year-old chi ld on the front passenger seat
and whether or not the airbag must be turned
off .
not standard ized . Child rest raints of the same
type typ ically have different weights and sizes
and different 'foo t pr ints,' the size and shape
of the bottom of the chi ld restra int tha t sits
on the seat, when they are insta lled on a vehi-
cle seat. These diffe rences make it virtually
impossible to certify compliance with the re-
quirements for advanced airbags with each
and every child restra int that has ever been
sold in the past or will be sold over the course
of the useful life of your veh icle .
For t his reason, the United States National
Highway Traffic Safety Adm inistrat ion has
published a list of spec ific type, makes and
models of chi ld restraints that must be used
to certify comp liance of the Advanced Airbag
System in your veh icle with the suppression
requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard 208. These chi ld restraints are:
Manufactured on or after
September 25, 2007
Manufactured on or after
December 1, 1999
September 25, 2007
December 1, 1999
December 1, 1999
December 1, 1999
September 25, 2007
September 25, 2007
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