GMC Terrain 2025 - Securing Child Restraints (with the Seat Belt in the Front Seat)

GMC Terrain/Terrain Denali Owner Manual (GMNA-Localizing-U.S./Canada/Mexico-18552429) - 2025
72 Seats and Restraints
8. Before placing achild in the child restraint,
m
a
ke sure it is securely held in place. To
check, firmly grip the child restraint at the
seat belt path and attempt to move it side
to side and back and forth. When the child
restraint is properly installed, there should
be no more than 2.5 cm (1 in) of movement.
To remove the child restraint, unbuckle 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.
Many child restraints are too wide to be
correctly secured in the center rear seat,
although some will fit there. If the center seat
position is too narrow for the child restraint,
secure it in arear outboard seat position.
If arear-facing child restraint is installed
in the rear center seat, ensure that the
second-row arm rest remains in the stowed
(closed) position. If the arm rest cannot be
stowed, install the child restraint in another
seating position.
Securing Child Restraints (With
th
e 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 363.
In addition, the vehicle has a passenger sensing
system which is designed to turn off the
front outboard passenger frontal airbag under
certain conditions. See Passenger Sensing
System 352 and Passenger Airbag Status
Indicator 392 for more information, including
important safety information.
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.
{ Warning
A
child in arear-facing child restraint can
b
e
seriously injured or killed if the front
outboard passenger frontal airbag inflates.
This is because the back of the rear-facing
child restraint would be very close to the
inflating airbag. Achild in aforward-facing
child restraint can be seriously injured
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Warning (Continued)
or killed if the front outboard passenger
frontal airbag inflates and the passenger
seat is in aforward position.
Even if the passenger sensing system 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forward-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.
See Passenger Sensing System 352 for
additional information.
If the child restraint uses atop tether, see
L
o
wer Anchors and Tethers for Children (LATCH
System) 364 for top tether anchor locations.
Do not secure achild seat in aposition without
atop tether anchor if anational or local law
requires that the top tether be anchored,