1997 CHEVROLET CORVETTE child seat

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Here you’ll find information about the seats in your Corvette and how to use your safety belts properly. You can also
learn about some things you should not do with air bags and safety belts.
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Seats and Controls
Safety Belts: They’re for Everyone
Here Are Questions Many People Ask About
Safety Belts
-- and the Answers
How to Wear Safety Belts Properly
Driver Position
Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy
Passenger Position
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Children
Child Restraints
Larger Children
Safety Belt Extender
Checking Your Restraint Systems
Replacing Restraint System Parts
After a Crash
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Be sure the child restraint is designed to be used in a
vehicle.
If it is, it will have a label saying that it meets
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
Then 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 child restraint will
show you how to do that.
The child restraint must be secured properly in the
passenger seat.
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.
Top Strap
Some child restraints have a top strap. Don’t use a
restraint like that in your vehicle because the top strap
anchor cannot be installed properly. You shouldn’t
use this type of child restraint without anchoring the
top strap.
Securing a Child Restraint in the Passenger
Seat Position
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Your vehicle has a passenger air bag. Never put a
rear-facing child restraint in this vehicle. Here’s why:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured if the passenger’s air bag
inflates. This is because the back of a rear-facing
child restraint would be
very close to the inflating
air bag.
Do not use a rear-facing child restraint in
this vehicle.
If a forward-facing child restraint is suitable for
your child, always move the passenger seat as far
back as it will go.
You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See the earlier part
about the top strap if the child restraint has one.
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Because your vehicle has a 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.)
Put the restraint on the seat. Follow the instructions
for the child restraint.
Secure the child in the child restraint as the
instructions say.
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.
If the shoulder belt goes in front of the child’s face
or
neck, put it behind the child restraint.
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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 injuries.
The lap portion of the belt should be worn low and snug
on the hips, just touching the child’s thighs. This applies
belt force to the child’s pelvic bones in a crash.
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Do not load your vehicle any heavier than the
GVWR, or either the maximum front or rear
GAWR. If you do, parts on your vehicle can
break, or
it can change the way your vehicle
handles. These could cause you to lose control.
Also, overloading can shorten the life of
your vehicle.
NOTICE:
Your warranty does not cover parts or
components that fail because of overloading.
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If you put things inside your vehicle -- like suitcases,
tools, packages or anything else
-- they will go as fast as
the vehicle goes.
If you have to stop or turn quickly, or
if there is a crash, they'll keep going.
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Things you put inside your vehicle can strike
and injure people in a sudden stop or turn,
or in
a crash.
0 Put things in the rear area of your vehicle.
Try to spread the weight evenly.
0 Never stack heavier things, like suitcases,
inside the vehicle
so that some of them are
above the tops
of the seats.
0 Don't leave an unsecured child restraint in
your vehicle.
0 When you carry something inside the
vehicle, secure
it whenever you can.
Towing A Trailer
Your Corvette is neither designed nor intended to tow
a trailer.
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.................................. 6-31
Master Cylinder
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Parking
..................................... 2-32
PedalTravel
................................. 6-31
Replacing System Parts
........................ 6-32
System Warning Light
......................... 2-73
Brakes.Anti -Lock
............................... 4-7
Braking in Emergencies
.......................... 4- 11
Break-In. New Vehicle .......................... 2- 19
BTSI
......................................... 2-35
BTSICheck
................................... 7-15
Bulb Replacement
......................... 6.33. 6.69
Fluid
....................................... 6-29
Transmission Shift Interlock
.................... 2-35
Wear
....................................... 6-31
Brake-Transmission Shift Interlock Check
........... 7- 15
Braking
........................................ 4-6
Canadian Roadside Assistance
.................... 8-7
Capacities and Specifications
...................... 6-69
Carbon Monoxide
.................... 2.15.2.37. 4.29
Cassette Deck Service
........................... 7- 13
Cassette Tape Player
............................ 3- 14
Careofyour
................................. 3-29
Center Console
................................. 2-55
Certification Label
.............................. 4-30
Chains. Tire
................................... 6-51
Check Gages Light
.............................. 2-79
Checking Your Restraint Systems
.................. 1-33
Chemical Paint Spotting
.......................... 6-58 Child Restraints
...................... 1.25. 1.26.
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Securing in the Passenger Seat Position
........... 1-27
Top Strap
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Where to Put
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Cigarette Lighter
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Circuit Breakers and Fuses
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Cleaner. Air
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Cleaning Aluminum Wheels
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Coated Moldings
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Convenience Net
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Exterior LampsLenses
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Fabric
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Glasssurfaces
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Inside of Your Corvette
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Instrument Panel
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Leather
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Outside of Your Corvette
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Removable Roof Panel
......................... 6-55
SecurityShade
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Soft-Touch Paint Surfaces
...................... 6-53
Stains
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Tires
....................................... 6-57
Vinyl
....................................... 6-52
Weatherstrips
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Wheels
..................................... 6-57
Windshield and Wiper Blades
................... 6-54
Climate Control
................................. 3-5
Automatic Electronic Dual
....................... 3-5
Manual
...................................... 3-2
Clock. Setting the
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Clutch. Hydraulic
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InCanada
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Racing or Other Competitive Driving
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RadioReception
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Radios
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Rain. Driving In
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Reading Lamps
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Rear Axle
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Axle Service
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Towing
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Turn Signal and Taillamp Bulb Replacement ....... 6-35
Rearview Mirror, Inside Daymight
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Recommended Fluids and Lubricants
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Remote Function Actuation (RFA) System
Storage
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Window Defogger
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Reclining Seatbacks
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Battery Replacement
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Resynchronizing Your Transmitter
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Remote Hatch Release ........................... 2- 14
Replacement Bulbs
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Replacement Parts
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Replacement, Wheel
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Reporting Safety Defects
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In Canada
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To General Motors ........... .......... 8-11
Resetting the Oil Life Monitor
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Restraints
Checking
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Replacing Parts After a Crash
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Systemcheck
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Retained Accessory Power (RAP)
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Reverse Automatic Transmission
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Manual Transmission
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Ridecontrol
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Roadside Assistance
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Roadside Assistance. Canadian
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Rocking Your Vehicle
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RoofPanel
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Rotation. Tire
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Safety Belts
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Adults
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Care ....................................... 6-54
Children
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Driver Position
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Extender
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How to Wear Properly ......................... 1-11
Incorrect Usage
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Lap Belt Cinch Feature
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Larger Children
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Passenger Position
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Questions and Answers
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Reminder Light
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Replacing After a Crash
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Smaller Children and Babies
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Use During Pregnancy
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Lap-Shoulder
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WhyThey Work
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InCanada
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To General Motors
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Safety Warnings and Symbols
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Scheduled Maintenance Services
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Seatback Latches
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Reclining
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Seats
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ManualFront
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Power
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Securing a Child Restraint
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Seats and Restraint Systems
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Seats and Seat Controls
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Second Gear, Automatic Transmission
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Second Gear, Manual Transmission
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Security Light
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SecurityShade
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Security Shade, Cleaning
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Selective Real Time Damping
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Service
Bulletins, Ordering
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Manuals, Ordering
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Parts Identification Label
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Publications, Ordering ......................... 8- 12
Work, Doing Your Own
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Service and Appearance Care
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Service and Owner Publications
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InCanada
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sport ........................................ 1-3
Servicing Your Air Bag-Equipped Corvette
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Shifting
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Into Park
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OutofPark
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Signaling Turns
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Sixth Gear. Manual Transmission
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Skidding
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Sound Equipment. Adding
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Specifications and Capacities
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Speech Impaired. Customer Assistance
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Sportseat
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Springs. Fiberglass
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Stains. Cleaning
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Starter Switch Check
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Steam
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Steering
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In Emergencies
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Power
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Tips
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Wheel. Tilt
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Storage Compartments
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Storage. Vehicle
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Stuck: In Sand. Mud. Ice or Snow
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Sunvisors
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Surge Tank. Coolant
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Symbols. Vehicle
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System Controls. Climate Control System ......... 3-2. 3-5
Specifications. Engine
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Speedometer
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Starting Your Engine
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