1993 BUICK REGAL Owners Manual

2. Put the restraint on the seat. Follow the instructions
for the child restraint.
3. Secure the child in the child restraint as the
instructions say.
4. Run the vehicle’s safety belt through or around the
restraint. The child restraint instructions will show
you how.
5. Buckle the belt. Make sure the release button faces
upward or outward,
so you’ll be able to unbuckle it
quickly if
you ever need to.
6. To tighten the belt, pull its free end while you push
down on the child restraint.
7. Push and pull the child restraint in different
directions
to be sure it is secure. If the child restraint
isn’t secure, turn the latch plate over and buckle it
again. Then see if
it is secure. If it isn’t, secure the
restraint in a different place in the vehicle and
contact the child restraint maker for their advice.
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.
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Securing a Child Restraint in the Right
Front Seat To use a child restraint here, you will need a special
infant/child seat attaching belt and the hardware that
goes with it. See
the earlier section about the top strap if
the child restraint has one.
Your dealer can get these and install the hardware for
you. It’s free. The special belt is GM Part Number
12340286. Your dealer can find the correct hardware in
the accessory section
of the GM Parts Catalog.
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’ A CAUTION:
Don’t use the special infantlchild seat attaching
hardware
in another vehicle. If you do, it may not
work well and the child may not be protected
properly
in a crash. The special hardware is for
your vehicle only.
Also, don’t use the special belt for anything but
securing a child restraint
in the right front seat. If
an adult or older child uses
it, the belt won’t
provide protection and may even increase injury
in a crash.
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Once the special hardware is installed, please follow the
instructions with it and these steps:
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1. Unbuckle the automatic lap-shoulder belt by pushing
the button
on the buckle.
2. Snap one hook of the infant/child seat attaching belt
near the floor at the door side
of the seat.
It will stay
on the door, ready to be rebuckled for use
by adults
or older children.
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3. Put the belt’s special latch plate into the vehicle’s
safety belt buckle. 4. You can make the belt longer by tilting the buckle
and pulling it along the belt.
5. Put the restraint on the seat. Follow the instructions
for the child restraint.
6. Secure the child in the child restraint as the
instructions
say.
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7. Run the belt through or around the child restraint.
The child restraint instructions will
show you how.
8. Put the hook on the free end through the slot in the
latch plate.
9. To make it tight, pull the belt while you push down
on the child restraint.
If the belt won’t stay tight,
switch it end for end.
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10. Push and pull the child restraint in different
directions to be sure it
is secure.
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To remove the infantkhild seat restraint:
1. Push the button on the safety belt buckle and remove
the special latch plate. Leave the latch plate
on the
special belt. ,.
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3. Put the belt away in a safe place in your vehicle, so it
won’t
fly around in a crash and injure someone.
4. Remember to reattach the automatic belt again, once
the child restraint is removed. Be sure it isn’t
twisted.
Larger .Children
2. Push the spring on the hook near the door and
remove the special belt.
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Children who have outgrown child restraints should
wear the vehicle’s safety belts.
If you have the choice, a child should sit next to a
window
so the child can wear a lap-shoulder belt and
get the additional restraint a shoulder belt can provide.
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they
are restrained in the rear seat. But they need to use the
safety belts properly.
Children who aren’t buckled up can be thrown out in
a crash.
Children who aren’t buckled up can strike other
people who are.
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@ What if a child is wearing a lap-shoulder belt,
but the child
is so small that the shoulder belt is
very close to the child's face or neck?
A: Move the child toward the center of the vehicle, but
be sure that
the shoulder belt still is on the child's
shoulder,
so that in a crash the child's upper body
would have
the restraint that belts provide. If the
child is
so small that the shoulder belt is still very
close to the child's face or neck, you might want to
place the child in the center seat position, the one
that has only a lap belt.
fl h CAUTION:
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Here two children are wearing the same belt. I ne
belt can't properly spread the impact forces. In a
crash, the
two children can be crushed together
and seriously injured.
A belt must be used by
only one persor
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