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Securing a Child Restraint in a Rear Outside Seat
Position
You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See the earlier part about the top
strap if the child restraint has one.
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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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 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.
6. Push and pull the child restraint in different directions to be sure it is
To remove the child restraint, just unbuckle the vehicle's safety belt and
let it go back all the way. The safety belt will move freely again and
be
ready to work for an adult or larger child passenger.
secure.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 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 rclease button is positioned so you
would be able to unbuckle the safety belt quickly if you ever had to.
6. To tighten the belt, pull its free end while you push down on the child
restraint.
I. 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 about
how to attach the child restraint: properly.
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
Position
Your vehicle has a right front passenger air bag. Never put a rear-facing
child restraint in this seat. Here’s
why:
You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See the earlier part about the top
strap
if the child restraint has one.
1. Because your vehicle has a right front passenger air bag, always move
the seat as far back as it will go before securing a forward-facing child
restraint. (See “Seats”
in the Index.)
restraint.
2. Put the restraint on the seat. Follow the instructions for the child
3. Secure the child in the child restraint as the instructions say.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 4. Pick up the latch plate, ana 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.
If the shoulder belt goes in front of the child's face or neck, put it
behind
the child restraint.
5. 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.
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6.
7.
Pull the rest of the
lap belt all the way
out
of the
retractor to set the
lock.
To tighten the belt,
feed the lap belt
back into the
retractor
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push down on
child restraint.
; you
the
8. Push and pull the child restraint in different directions to be sure it is
secure.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine To remove the child restraint, just unbuckle the vehicle’s safety belt and
let it
go back all the way.
The safety belt will move freely again and be ready to work for an adult or
larger child passenger.
Larger Children
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.
0 Children who aren’t buckled up can bc thrown out in a crash.
0 Children who aren’t buckled up can strike other people who are.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Q: 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?
At 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.
6h CAUTION:
Never do this.
Here
a child is sitting in a seat that has a lap-shoulder belt, but
the shoulder part is behind the child. If the child wears the belt
in this
way, in a crash the child might slide under the belt. The
belt’s force would then be applied right on the child’s abdomen.
That could cause
serious or fatal iqjuries.
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