Cadillac XT4 - Securing Child Restraints; Front Seat)

Cadillac XT4 Owner Manual (GMNA-Localizing-Europe-15440913) - 2022 -
CRC - 5/13/21
SEATS AND RESTRAINTS 81
To remove the child restraint, follow
the instructions in the child restraint
owner's manual to unlock it. Unfasten
the vehicle seat belt and let it return
to the stowed position. If the top
tether is attached to a top tether
anchor, disconnect it.
Securing Child Restraints
(With the Seat Belt in the
Front Seat)
This vehicle has airbags. A rear seat is
a safer place to secure a
forward-facing child restraint. See
Where to Put the Restraint 0 71.
There may be a switch on the
instrument panel that you can use to
turn off the front outboard passenger
frontal airbag. See Airbag On-Off
Switch 0 61 for more information,
including important safety
information.
Never put a rear-facing child restraint
in the front. This is because the risk
to the rear-facing child is so great if
the airbag deploys.
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Danger
When using a child restraint on the
front passenger seat, the airbag
systems for the front passenger seat
must be deactivated; if not, the
triggering of the airbags poses a
risk of fatal injur y to the child.
This is especially the case if
rear-facing child restraints are used
on the front passenger seat.
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Warning
A child in a rear-facing child
restraint can be seriously injured or
killed if the front outboard
passenger airbag inflates. This is
because the back of the rear-facing
child restraint would be ver y close
to the inflating airbag. A child in a
forward-facing child restraint can
be seriously injured or killed if the
front outboard passenger airbag
inf lates and the passenger seat is in
a forward position.
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Warning (Continued)
Even if the airbag switch has turned
off the front outboard passenger
frontal airbag, no system is fail-safe.
No one can guarantee that an
airbag will not deploy under some
unusual circumstance, even though
it is turned off.
Secure rear-facing child restraints
in a rear seat, even if the airbag is
off. If you secure a for ward-facing
child restraint in the front outboard
passenger seat, always move the
seat as far back as it will go. It is
better to secure the child restraint
in a rear seat.
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Warning
If the airbag readiness light ever
comes on and stays on, it means
that something may be wrong with
the airbag system. For example, the
front outboard passenger frontal
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