1994 CHEVROLET CAVALIER Owners Manual

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Q: What’s wrong with this?
A: The shoulder belt is worn under the
ani. It should be worn over the
shoulder at
all times:
.
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Q: What’s wrong with this?
A: The belt is twisted across the body.
Safety Belt Use During
Prepncy
Safety belts work for everyone,
including pregnant women. Like all
occupants, they are more likely to be
seriously injured
if they don’t wear
safety belts.
A pregnant woman should wear a lap-
shoulder belt, and the lap portion
should be worn as low as possible
throughout the pregnancy.
The best way to protect
the fetus is to
protect the mother. When a safety belt
is worn properly, it’s more’likely that
the
fetus won’t be hurt in a crash. For
pregnant women,
as for anyone, the key
to making safety belts effective is
wearing them properly.
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Pear Seat Outside Passenger
Dositions
Lap-Shoulder Belt
The positions next to the windows have
ap-shoulder belts. Here's how to wear
me properly.
1. Pick up the latch plate and pull the
belt across you. Don't let it get
twisted.
until it clicks.
2. Push the latch plate into the buckle
If the belt stops before it reaches the
buckle, tilt the latch plate and keep
pulling until
you can buckle it.
Pull
up on the latch plate to make sure
it is secure.
If the belt is not long enough, see Safety
Belt Extender at the end of this section.
Make sure the release button on the
buckle is positioned
so you would be
able to unbuckle the safety belt quickly
if you ever had to.

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on the buckle end of the belt as you pull
up on the shoulder part. The
lap part of the belt should be worn
low and snug on the hips, just touching
the thighs. In a crash, this applies force
to the strong pelvic bones. And you’d be
less likely
to slide under the lap belt. If
you slid under it, the belt would apply
force at your abdomen. This could cause
serious or even fatal injuries. The shoulder
belt should
go over the shoulder and
across the chest. These parts of the bod3
are best able to take belt restraining forces.
The safety belt locla if there’s
a sudden
stop or a crash. To
unlatch the belt, just push the
button on the buckle.
Rear Safety Belt Comfort Guides
for Children and Small Adults
Your vehicle may be equipped with rear
shoulder belt comfort guides. This
feature will provide added comfort for
children who have outgrown child
restraints and for small adults. The
comfort guides pull the shoulder belts
away from the neck and head. (This
feature
is not available on vehicles with
a convertible top.)

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There is one guide for each outside
passenger position in the rear seat.
You
will find them tucked in between the
seatback and the interior body, about
half-way down the edge
of the seatback.
Here is how you should install the
comfort guide on the shoulder belts:
1. Pull the elastic cord out from
between the edge of the seatback and
the interior body to remove the guide
from its storage clip.
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2. Slide the guide under and past the
belt. The elastic cord must be under
the belt. Then, place the guide over
the belt, and insert the two edges
of
the belt into the slots of the guide.
3. Be sure that the belt is not twisted
and it lies flat. The elastic
cord must
be under the belt and the guide on
top.

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4. Buckle the belt around the child, and
make sure that both the lap belt and
the shoulder belt are secured
properly. Make sure that the shoulder
belt crosses the shoulder. See
Safety
Belts, Rear Seat Passengers
in the
Index. i
To remove and store the comfort
guides, just perform these steps
in
reverse order. Squeeze the belt edges
together
so that you can take them out
from the guides. Pull the guide upward
to expose its storage clip, and then slide
the guide onto the clip. Rotate the guide
and clip inward and in between the
seatback and the interior body, leaving
only the loop
of elastic cord exposed.
I Center Passenger Position
Lap Belt
If 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.

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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.
Make sure the release button
on the
buckle
is positioned so you would be
able to unbuckle the safety belt quickly
if you ever had to.
I Children
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.
Smaller Children and Babies

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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. 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 unless the child is an infant
and you’re the only adult in the vehicle.
In that case, you might want to secure
the restraint in the front seat where you
can keep an eye on the baby.
Wherever you install it, be sure to
secure the child restraint properly.
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 in
it.
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