2001 MAZDA MODEL PROTÉGÉ seats

Essential Safety Equipment
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seats, seat bek stslhs and the supplenehtal
Front Sears 2 2
Rearsear 2- 5
SeatBelt Systems 2- I
Child ResEaint 220LAICH Child-Restrainl Systens 2 21
Supplemental Restnint Systems 2 30
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Essential Safety Equipment
Front Seats
I Seat Slide
To move a seat forward or backward.
raise the lever and slide the seat to the
desired position.
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Secuin! seats:
Adjustable seats a d seatbacks that
are not securetr tatched arc
dangero s.In a s dde stot or
couhion, the seat or seatbackcould
now,caasing i jut!. Make sure the
odjustable conpon.nts of the seat
are lo.ked in place br attenpting to
sline the seatforward and backwa
and rocking the seatb.ck.
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Driv e r's S e at Ad i ustme nt:
Adjusting the bit'er seat v,hile the
whicle is mo'ing is dangenus.The
divet couA bse contrct oJ the
whick and have an occident. Adj|st
the dtuet's seat onlr whenthe

Essentbl Safety Equipment
I Head Restraint
I Seat Recline
To change lhe sealback angle. lean
fonvard slightly while raising the l€ver
Then lean back to the desired position
and release ihe lever.
Make sure the leverreturns to its original
position and the seatback is locked in
place by attempting to push it fo.ward
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Reclinins:
Sittins in a nclined position while
the rehicle it nofing is dangerous
because lou tlon't get the fullprotection from seat behs. During
sunnen brukins ot a cotlision, )oucan sline under the lap belt and
suffet seious intemat injudes. For
Duxinun pdecnon, sit u'ell back
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Head Restraints Adj stme t:
Driying with the head rcstrahtti
adjusted too low or rcnoved is
dangerous. With no support behitul
rour head, rour ne.k could be
sedoustr injured in a collision.
Alwars dnre with the heotr rcstraints
insetledwhen seats arc beine used
and ,nake surc thet a.e prcperl!
adjusted.
ACAUTION
When retuming a real reclined
seatback to its upright position, make
sure you support lhe seatback while
operating lbe seatback lever Ifthe
seatback is nol supporled, irwill flip
forward suddenly and could cause
lnjufy.

Eslential Safety Equipment
Rear Seat
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Sta.kingCaryo:
Sta.king luggage ot other cargo
higherthatt the seatbacks ol puttine
things on the real package trat is
dansercus. Durins sunden brukins
ot aco ision,objectt can becone
projectiles thrt nar hit and injurc
passengers. Don't stack things
higher tha the seatbdcks or put
things on the rcar package trat.
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Securing Seats:
Adjustable seats a d seatbacks thal
arc not securcb latched arc
dangerou,'.In a sudden stop or
collision,the sedt or seatback coukl
now, causins injury Make surc the
alljustable tonponen* of the seat
are lo&ed in place bJ attenpting to
sude the seatfotwa and backword
and rccking the seatback.I Split-Folding Rear Sealback
To provide nore space in the lrunk:
l. Unfasten lhe Iap porlion ofihe
rear center seat belt (page 2 16).
2. Pull the lock release up and fold the
seatback forward.

Essential SafetJ Equipment
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Unk'cked Seatback:
A seatback plart an irynrtant rola i,t
rour prctection in a rehi.le. Leavirrg
the seatback unlocked is dangerout as
it can alloui passengers to be ejeded or
thmvn aroutrd a d baggage to stike
occupa ts i a suAkn stop or
collbi , rcsuxing in sewre injwr.
Afrer rctuming th? seat at anf line,
even when there are no otherpassengers, ro.k ttu seatbeck to nnke
swe itis locked i place.
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P a s s e n qsralLLfu ldalslalbaeL!
Driving with a passe ger on the
fotded 'eatback is danserous.
Auor)ing a child to sit up on the
foued seatbatk rrhile the whicle is
moving k particulaflr dangerour. In
a su.Uen stop or ewn a minor
.o ision, a chiU not in a oper seat
or chiu-restraint srstem and seat
bett could be thnwn fonra , back
or eye out of the ca. .esultins in
senous injuries or death.The chiu
or othel objecs itt the baggage ana
could be thrcwn into otheroccupants
&nd cause senous injur!. Never
alk'|| a passengerto sitor stand on
the fotded seatbock v,hile the vehicle
AWARNING
Childft and the Fotding Rear
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Plaring vith the folding reot seats is
dangercus. 1:he foldiig rcar
seatbacks cannot be folded doi'tl
Jion inside the luggage
comparlment Do not give the car
kers to chidrc and do not a otr
then to plar in the whi.lc.

Ess€niial Safety Equipment
NOTE
Your Mazda is equipped with LATCH
lower anchors for allachment of
specially designed LATCH
child-restraint systens in $e outboard
rear seats. Anachment of LATCH
child restralnt sysiems should all fil
the oulboard positions. A child
restrainl system with LAICH
anachments cannor be installed in the
rear center positionunless the seat
belts are used instead. When using
these anchors to secure a
child-resiraini syslem, refer to
"LATCH Child-Restraint Systens"(paze 2-21).
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Holding a Chia white the Vehicte it
Moing:
Hodins a chiu in rour atms vhile
tha whicle is noins is ext.enelr
dangercus. No nutter ho$, strong the
person nut be,he or she cannot hou
onto a chiU i asudden stop or
tolision and it coud res ltin
seious injury or death to the child or
other o.cupants. Ewn in a moalerate
accident, the child mar be exposed to
ab bas Iorces that couA nsult in
serious injury or daath to the child,
or the chiu nat be slanned into the
adult, injuing the adult. Altrolt
secuft a chid in a ptupe.
c hild-re straint s r ste n.
Child Restraint
I Child Restraint Precautions
Statistics confirm that the rear seai is the
best place for all children up io 12 years
of age-tbe more so with a supplenental
restraint system (air bagt.
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One BeIt- One Passenger:
Using o e seat belt|br more than
o e person ata tine is dangercus. A
seat belt used i,t this Ha! can't
spread the impactforces ploperry
onil the twopassengers couu be
crushed together attd seriouslr
injured ot even ki ed. Neret use one
beltlor nore than one person at a
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Essential Safety Equipm€nt
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P I opcdize lf eltild.R e s t ruht
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For eJfective prctection in r.hicle
accidents and s dden stops, a child
nust be prcperlr rcsbained using a
seat belt or chiA-restraint s}ste,l
dependins o ase and ske. If not,
the chid coud be seriouslr injured
or eren killed in an accident.
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A seat bel!or child-restralnt sys|em
can become very hot in a closed
vehicle during warm weafter. To
avoid burning yourselfor a child,
check them before you oryourchild
V Small children
You are required by law to use a
child'restr3int system for childrcn in the
U-S. and Canada. Small children,
generally those who are four years old or
)ounger and who weigh under l8 kg (4O
1b). riding in your vehicle. rnus! beprotected by child-restraint systems made
especially forchildrcn. Check your local
and state or provincial laws for specific
requirenents regarding $e safety of
children riding in tour vehicle.
V Older children
A child who has outgrcwn child-restraint
systems should sit in the rear and use seat
belts, both lap and shoulder.Ifthe
shoulder belt crosses the neck orface.
move lhe child closer to the center ofrhe
vehicle in the outboard seats. and rowards
the buckle on the right if rhe child is
seated in the cenier sea!.
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Essential Safety Equipment
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Re ar- F acing C hild-Re sttuint S! ste n :
Rearfacing child-restraint srstens
o the lront seat are particula j
dange rcu s. T he c hild-re straint
srstem can be hit b! a deploring air
bag and nowd violentlr backwa
resulting in senous i jury or death to
the chid. Newt use a rear-locing
child-rcstraint trsten in the frcntseat eilh anair bae thatcould
To check ifyour Mazda front seats have
side air bags'every Mazda side air bag
will have a"SRS Air Bag" label on the
ou$oard shoulder of the liont seats.
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Seatins Position vith Side Air Bag:
A oeing anrone to lean orq o.
aeainst the front door is dangercus.
If the t'ehi.le b equipped with side
air bags, the impact of an i,tlating
side ab bag couu cause senous
injury or deoth to the person.
Children are more likelt to sleep in
the t'ehick; h,hen the! do, the! are
more at .isk in the front passenger's
seat thet has a side ab bag because
thej mal slump o't into the path of
the seatback-nounted 4h bae. If a
chu can't be seated in the nar, do
not dlow the chiA b kan over or
against the fmnt door, eren if the
chiu k seated in a .hid-.estraint
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Frcnt Passenger's Seat Posuion:
As tot whicle has front air bags and
doublr so becaue !oa. whi.le has
side ab bass, a frcnt-tacins.hu-restraint slsren shouu be pa on
the front seat onry ,'ehen it is
unavotlable- Ahta]s mow the seat as
Iar ba* as possibla, because the forceof a deploJing oir bag cou.lt cause
serb s injuq or daath to the chiw
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