Where to Put the Restraint (Regular
Cab and Extended Cab
Pickup)
The child restraint must be secured properly in the right
front passenger seat. If you want to secure a
rear-facing child restraint
in
the right front passenger’s
seat, turn
off
the passenger’s air bag. See
Air Bag
Off
Switch on page
1-61
and
Securing a Child Restraint
in the Right Front Seat Position on page
1-49
for
more on this, including important safety information.
A
child
in
a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger’s air bag inflates. This is because
the back of the rear-facing child restraint
would be very close to the inflating air bag. Be
sure to turn
off
the
air bag before using a
rear-facing child restraint
in
the right front seat
position.
Even though the
AIR
BAG
OFF
switch
is
designed to turn
off
the passenger’s frontal air
bag, no system
is
fail-safe, and no one can
guarantee that an air bag will not deploy under
some unusual circumstance, even though
it
is
turned
off.
General Motors therefore
recommends that rear-facing child restraints
be transported
in
vehicles with a rear seat that
will accommodate a rear-facing child restraint,
whenever possible.
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