1994 CADILLAC SEVILLE Owners Manual

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Your vehicle has a rear bench seat, someone can sit in the center position.
When you sit in a
center seating
position, you have a
lap safety belt, which
has no retractor. To
make the belt longer,
tilt the latch plate
and pull it along the
belt.
To make the belt
shorter, pull its free
end as shown until
the belt
is snug.
Buckle, position and
release
it the same
way as the lap part of
a lap-shoulder belt.
If
the belt isn’t long
enough, see “Safety
Belt Extender” at the
end of this section.
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able to unbuckle the safety belt quickly if you ever had to.
CHILDREN
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Everyone in a vehicle needs protection! That includes infants and all
children smaller than adult
size. In fact, the law in every state in the
United States and in every Canadian province says children up to some
age must
be restrained while in a vehicle.

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CHILD RESTMNTS
Be sure to follow the instructions for the restraint. You may find these
instructions on the restraint itself or in
a booklet, or both. These
restraints use the belt system
in your vehicle, but the child also has to be
secured within the restraint to help reduce the chance
of personal injury.
The instructions that come with the infant or child restraint will show you
how to do that.
mere to Put the Restraint
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they are restrained in
the rear rather than the front seat. We at General Motors therefore
recommend that you put your child restraint in the rear seat.
NEVER put
a rear-facing child restraint
in the front passenger seat. Here's why:
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Wherever you install it, be sure to secure the child restraint properly.
7 Keep in mind that an unsecured child restraint can move around in a
collision
or sudden stop and injure people in the vehicle. Be sure to
properly secure any child restraint in your vehicle
-- even when no child is
7 in it.
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Top Strap
If your
has a tc
should child
restraint
~p strap, it
be anchored.
If you need to have an anchor installed, you can ask your Cadillac dealer
to put it in for you.
If you want to install an anchor yourself, your dealer
can tell you how to do it.
For cars first sold in Canada, child restraints with a top strap must be
anchored according to Canadian Law.
Your dealer can obtain the hardware kit and install it for you, or you may
install it yourself using the instructions provided in the kit.
Use the tether hardware kit available from the dealer. The hardware and
installation instructions were specifically designed for this vehicle.
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You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See the earlier section about the top -
strap if the child restraint has one. i,
1. Put the restraint on the seat. Follow the instructions for the child
restraint.
2. Secure the child in the child restraint as the instructions say.
3. Pick up the latch plate, and run the lap and shoulder portions of the
vehicle’s safety belt through
or around the restraint. The child
restraint instructions will
show you how. Tilt the latch plate to adjust
the belt if needed.
If the shoulder belt goes in front of the child’s face or neck, put it
behind the child restraint.
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4. Buckle the belt.
Make sure the
release button
is
positioned so you
would be able to
unbuckle the
safety belt quickly
if you ever had to.
5. To tighten the
belt, pull up on
the shoulder belt
while you push down on the child
restraint.
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