Ch ild s a fety
should always ride in the back seat properly re-
strained for their age and size.
A WARNING
-
Improperly installed child safety seats in-
crease the risk of serious personal injury and
death in a collision.
- 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
dur ing norma l driving or in a crash.
- 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 during
a sudden stop or in a coll ision.
- Always make sure that the rear seat back-
rest to which the center rea r safety be lt* is
attached is securely latched whenever the
rear cente r safety belt is being used to se-
cure a chi ld restraint.
- 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 chi ld
can be seriously injured or killed.
- Never install rear-facing chi ld safety seats
or infant carriers on the front passenger
seat. A child will be serious ly 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 child safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof .
- Always install rear-facing child safety seats
or infant carr iers on the rear seat.
- Forward -facing ch ild safety seats or infant
carr iers installed on the front passenger 's
seat may interfere with the deployment of
the a irbag and cause serious injury to the
child.
- It is safe r to install a forward-facing ch ild
safety seat on the rear seat.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child restrained in a veh icle is
being used ¢
page 166 . Specia l pre caut ions
178
apply when installing a child safety seat on
the front passenger seat ¢
page 143, Child
restraints on the front seat - some impor-
tant things to know .
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 mus t 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 ¢
page 154, Monitoring
the Advanced Airbag System.
- Take the child restra int 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 installat ion of child restraints can
reduce the ir effectiveness or even prevent
them from provid ing any protect ion.
- An improperly installed child restra int can
interfere with the airbag as it deploys and
serious ly injure or even kill the child.
- Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instructions provided with the child safety
seat or carrier .
- After checking to make sure that the ch ild
restraint is properly installed, make certain
that the child restraint is correctly recog -
nized by the capacitive passenge r detection
system in the front passenger seat and that
the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light signals
the correct front passenger fron ta l air bag
stat us.
A WARNING
Forward- facing child restra ints:
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