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Essential Safety Equipment
Important information about safety equipment, including seats, seat belt
system, child-restraint systems and SRS air bags.
Seats ............................................................................................... 2-2
Seat Precaution ............... .......................................... ................. 2-2
Front Seat .................................................................................. 2-5
Rear Seat ................ ................................................................... 2-8
Head Restraints .............................. ......................................... 2-13
Seat Belt Systems ......................................................... ............... 2-15
Seat Belt Precautions .............................................................. 2-15
Seat Belt ............................................... ................................... 2-18
Seat Belt Warning Systems ..................................................... 2-19
Front Seat Belt Pretensioner and Load Limiting Systems ....... 2-19
Center-Rear Position Seat Belt ................................................ 2-21
Seat Belt Extender ................................................................... 2-22
Child Restraint .............................................. .............................. 2-24
Child Restraint Precautions ..................................................... 2-24
Child-Restra int System Installation ........................................ 2-29
Installing Child-Restraint Systems .......................................... 2-30
SRS Air Bags ............................................................................... 2-41
Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) Precaut ions ................ 2-41
Supplemental Restraint System Components ......................... 2-48
How the SRS Air Bags Work .................................................. 2-50
SRS Air Bag Deployment Criteria .......................................... 2-54
Limitations to SRS Air Bag .................................................... 2-55
Front Passenger Occupant Classification System
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Constant Monitoring ............... ................................................ 2-63
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