To remove the child restraint, just unbuckle the vehicle’s
safety belt.
It
will be ready
to
work for an adult or
larger child passenger.
Securing a Child Restraint in the
Right Front Seat Position
Your vehicle has a right front passenger air bag.
Never
put a rear-fapiqg child rest+% in
this
seat.
Here’s
why:
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
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back of the rear-facing child restraint would be
very
close to the inflating air bag. Always
secure a rear-facing child restraint in a
rear seat.
Although a rear seat is a safer place, you can secure a
forward-facing child restraint in the right front seat.
You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See
Top
Strap on
page
1-39
if
the child restraint has one. Be sure
to
follow the instructions that came with the child restraint.
Secure the child in the child restraint when and as
the instructions say.
1.
Because your vehicle has a right front passenger
air bag, always move the seat as far back as it will
go before securing a forward-facing child restraint.
See
Manual Seats
on
page
1-2.
2.
Put the restraint on the seat.
3.
Pick up
the
latch plate, and run the lap and shoulder
portions
of
the vehicle’s safety belt through or
around the restraint. The child restraint instructions
will show you how.
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