Some child restraints with a top tether are
designed to be used whether the top tether is
anchored or not. Other child restraints require that
the top tether be anchored. A national or local
law may require that the top tether be anchored.
In Canada, the law requires that forward-facing
child restraints have a top tether, and that
the tether be attached.
Your vehicle does not have lower anchors or top
tether anchors to secure a child restraint with the
LATCH system. If a national or local law requires
that your top tether be anchored, do not use a child
restraint in this vehicle because a top tether cannot
be properly anchored. You must use the safety
belts to secure your child restraint in this vehicle,
unless a national or local law requires that the top
tether be anchored. Refer to your child restraint
instructions and instructions in this manual for
securing a child restraint using the vehicle’s safety
belts. See Securing a Child Restraint in the
Passenger Seat Position on page 46.
Securing a Child Restraint in the
Passenger Seat Position
Your vehicle has a right front passenger airbag.
A rear seat is a safer place to secure a
forward-facing child restraint.
In addition, your vehicle has the passenger
sensing system. The passenger sensing system is
designed to turn off the right front passenger’s
frontal airbag and side impact airbag (if equipped)
when an infant in a rear-facing infant seat or a
small child in a forward-facing child restraint
or booster seat is detected. See Passenger
Sensing System on page 59 and Passenger Airbag
Status Indicator on page 190 for more information
on this including important safety information.
Your vehicle has a label on the sun visor that says,
“Never put a rear-facing child seat in the front.”
This is because the risk to the rear-facing child is
so great, if the airbag deploys.
Never put a child in a rear-facing child restraint in
the passenger’s seat unless the passenger
airbag status indicator shows off and the airbag is
off. Here is why:
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