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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 Precautions.................... 2-2
Front Seat..............................2-4
Rear Seat.............................2-16
Head Restraints................... 2-19
Seat Warmer/Heated Steering
Wheel................................... 2-21
Seat Warmer
*
...................... 2-21
Heated Steering Wheel
*
........2-23
Seat Belt Systems.................... 2-26
Seat Belt Precautions............2-26
Seat Belt..............................2-28
Seat Belt Warning Systems.... 2-30
Seat Belt Pretensioner and Load
Limiting Systems.................. 2-30
Child Restraint........................2-33
Child-Restraint Precautions..........
.......................................... 2-33
Child-Restraint System
Installation.......................... 2-37
Child-Restraint System Suitability
for Various Seat Positions
Table...................................2-42
Installing Child-Restraint
Systems...............................2-45
SRS Air Bags........................... 2-49
Supplementary Restraint System
(SRS) Precautions.................2-49
Front Passenger Air Bag
Deactivation Switch............. 2-54
Supplementary Restraint System
Components....................... 2-57
How the SRS Air Bags
Work.................................. 2-58
SRS Air Bag Deployment
Criteria............................... 2-62
Limitations to SRS Air Bag.....2-65
Constant Monitoring............2-66
*Some models.
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