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Child restraints
All occupants – especially children –
should be restrained whenever riding in
cars.
Infants or small children should never
be held on the lap of a passenger.
Children should always sit in the rear
and, depending on age, use either a
child restraint system or the existing
safety belts. Accident statistics have
shown that children are safer when
properly restrained in the rear seats
than in the front seating positions.
This is the right way a child should sit in This is the right way a larger child
a child restraint when rear side bags
(arrow) are installed.
Infants or toddlers should be secured
with a child restraint system appro-
priate for their size.
should sit wearing the safety belt when
rear side airbags (arrow) are installed.
Commercially-available child restraint
systems are designed to be secured
with a lap belt or with the lap belt por-
tion of a combination lap/shoulder belt.
Improperly or inadequately installed re-
straint systems can increase the risk of
injury to children. Always read and fol-
low the instructions that come with the
system.
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Child restraints
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Before installing any child-restraint Never install a rear-facing child restraint
device or child seat, please read system in the front passenger seat.
the following: We strongly urge you to carefully read
Never install a rear-facing child restraint and observe the instructions for instal-
system in the front passenger seat of
this car.
lation and use provided by the child re-
straint's manufacturer whenever you
use such a device.
Be sure that all occupants (of all ages)
Your car is equipped with an airbag
supplemental restraint system for the
front passenger. Because the backrest remain properly and securely restrained
on any rear-facing child restraint sys-
tem (of the kind designed for infants un-
der 1 year and 20 lbs./9 kg) would be
within the airbag's deployment range,
you should never mount such a device
in the front passenger seat, as the im-
pact of the airbag against the child re-
straint's backrest could lead to serious
or fatal injuries.
at all times.<
All rear seating positions in your
vehicle meet the recommendations
of SAE J1819, an industry recom-
mended practice for securing child
restraint systems in motor vehicles.
If you use a child restraint system with a
tether strap, three additional tether an-
chorage points (refer to the arrows in
the illustration) have been provided.
Depending on the location selected for
seating in the rear passenger area, at-
tach the tether strap to the correspond-
ing anchorage point to secure the child
restraint system. Remove the cover first
on the middle location.
If it is necessary for a child (not an in-
fant) to ride in the front seat, certain
precautions should be taken. First,
move the passenger seat as far away
from the dashboard as possible. This
important precaution is intended to
maximize the distance between the air-
bag and the child. Older children
should be tightly secured with the
safety belt. Younger children should be
secured in an appropriate forward-fac-
ing child restraint system that has first
been properly secured with a safety
belt.
If the respective seating position is fit-
ted with a headrest lift the headrest and
pass the tether strap between the
headrest and the seat back.
Adjust the tether strap according to the
child restraint manufacturer's instruc-
tions.
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