1998 BUICK PARK AVENUE child seat

Here you'll find information about the seats in ycur Buick and how to use your safety belts propedy. You can also
learn about some things you should not do with air bags and safety belts.
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B -27 Seats
and Seat Controls
Safety
Belts: They're for Everyone
Were
Are Questions Many Teogle Ask
About Safety Belts -- and the Answers
How to Wear Safety Belts Properly
Driver Position
Safety Beit Use During Pregnancy
Right
Front Passenger Position
Supplenental Restraint System
(SRS)
Center Passenger Position
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Rear Seat Passengers
Rear Safety Belt
CSITI€OI-~ Guides for
Children
and Small Adults
Children
Child Restraints
Larger Children
Safety Belt Extender
Checking Your
Restraint Systems
Replacing Restraint System
Parts After
a Crash
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Rear shoulder belt c~mfort guides will provide added
safety belt COXII~QI-~ for children who have outgrown
child restraints
and for small adults. Men installed on a
shoulder belt, the codort guide pulls the belt away
from the neck and head.
There
is one guide for each outside passenger position in
the rear seat. TO provide added safety belt comfort for
children
who have outgrown child restraints ad for
smaller adults, the COIII~Q~~ guides may be installed on
the shoulder belts. Here's how to install a comfort guide
and use the safety belt:
1. Remove the guide from its storage pocket QIZ the side
of the seatback.
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4. Buckle, position and release the safety belt as
described
in “Rear Seat Outside Passenger Positions”
earlier
in this section. Make sure that the shoulder
belt crosses the shoulder.
To remove and store the comfort guides, squeeze the
belt edges together so that you can take them out from
the guides. Slide the guide into its storage pocket on the
side
of the seatback.
Children
Everyone in a vehicle needs protection! That includes
infants and all children smaller
than adult size. Neither
the distance traveled nor the age and size of the traveler
changes the need,
for everyone, to use safety restraints.
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.
Children who are up against, or very close to, any
air bag when it Mates can be seriously injured
or Wed.
This is true even though your vehcile
has reduced-force frontal air bags. Air bags plus
lag-shoulder belts offer the best protection for
adults, but not for young children
and infants.
Neither the vehicle’s safety belt system nor its air
bag system is designed for them. Young children
and
infants need the protection that a child
restraint system can
provide. Always secure
children
properly in your vehicle.
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A booster seat (F, G) is designed for children who
are about
40 to 6Q Ibs. (18 to 27 kg) md about
four to eight years
of age. It’s designed to improve
the fit of the vehicle’s safety belt system. Booster
seats with shields use lap-only belts; however,
booster seats without
shields use lapshoulder
belts. Booster seats can
also help a child to see
out the window.
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A child in a child. restraint in the center €ront
seat can be
badly injnred ~1 killed by the sight
front passenger air bag if it idates, even though
your vehicle has reduced-force frontal air bags.
Never secure
a child restraiamt in the center
front seat. It’s always better to secure a child
restraint
in the rear seat. You may secure a
forward-facing child restraint in the right
font passenger seat, but before you do, always
PPEQV~ the fr~nt passenger seat as far back as it
will gap. It’s better to secure the child restraint in
8 rear seat.
See the earlier part about the top strap if the child
restraint has one.
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L
I. Make the belt &Y !omg as possible by tilting the Batch
2. But &e reatmint on the seat.
3. Run the vehidc's safety belt through or around the
restraint.
The child restraint instructions will show
you how.
plate and pulling ,it dong the belt.
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 its free end while you push
down on the child restraint. If you're using a
forward-facing child restraint, you may find it
helpful to use
your knee to push down on the child
restraint
as you tighten the belt.
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6. Push and pull the child restraint in differezt
directions
to be sure it is secure.
To remove the child restraint, just unbuckle the vehicle’s
sa€ety belt.
It will be ready to work for an adult cr larger
child passenger.
U
YQUT 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 aboemt the top strap if the chiid restraint has one. Be
sure to FokBow the instructions that came with the child
restraint. Secure the child in the child restraint when and
as the instructions say.
1. Because your vehicle has a right front passenger air
bag, always move the seat as far back as it wi6i go
before securing a forward-facing child restraint.
(See “Seats” in the Index.)
2. Put the restraint on the seat.
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.
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Accident statistics show that children are safer if they
are restmined in the rear seat. But they need to use the
safety belts properly.
e Children who aren’t buckled up can be thrown out
e Children who aren’t buckled up can strike other
in
a crash.
people
who are.
. . .. A: ~ove ~e c~d ~QWS~ &e center of fie vekcle, but
be sure that the shoulder belt still is 0111 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 sitting in a rear seat outside position, see
“Rear Safety Belt Comfort Guides” in the Index.
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.
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