2003 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX Owners Manual

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A. Vehicle anchor
B. LATCH system attachment points
With this system, use the LATCH system instead of the
vehicle’s safety belts
to secure a child restraint.
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its anchorage points, the restraint won’t be
able to protect a child sitting there. In a crash,
the child could be seriously injured or killed. Make sure that a LATCH-type child restraint is
properly installed using the anchorage points,
or use the vehicle’s safety belts to secure the
restraint. See “Securing a Child Restraint
Designed for the LATCH System”, “Securing a
Child Restraint in
a Rear Outside Seat
Position” or “Securing a Child Restraint in a
Center Rear Seat Position”
in the Index for
information on how to secure a child restraint
in your vehicle.
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Securing a Child Restraint Designed
for the LATCH System
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Find the anchors for the seating position you want
to use, where the bottom
of the seatback meets the
back of the seat cushion.
Put the child restraint on the seat.
Attach the anchor points on the child restraint to the
anchors in the vehicle. The child restraint
instructions will show you how.
If the child restraint is forward-facing, attach the top
strap to the top strap anchor. See Top Strap on
page
1-39. Tighten the top strap according to
the child restraint instructions.
Push and pull the child restraint in different
directions to be sure it is secure.
To remove the child restraint, simply unhook the top
strap from the top tether anchor and then disconnect
the anchor points.
Securing a Child Restraint in a Rear
Outside Seat Position
If your child restraint is equipped with the LATCH
system, see Lower Anchorages and Top Tethers
for
Children (LATCH System) on page 1-41.
You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See Top Strap on
page
1-39 if the child restraint has one. Be sure to
follow the instructions that came with the child restraint.
Secure the child in the child restraint when and as
the instructions say.
1. Put the restraint on the seat.
2. 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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3. 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.
4. Pull the rest of the shoulder belt all the way out of
the retractor to set the lock.
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5. To tighten the belt, feed the shoulder belt back
into the retractor 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.
directions to be sure it is secure.
6. Push and pull the child restraint in different
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.
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Securing a Child Restraint in a
Center Rear Seat Position
If your child restraint is equipped with the LATCH
system, see Lower Anchorages and Top Tethers for
Children (LATCH System) on page
1-4 I.
You’ll be using the lap belt.
Be sure to follow the instructions that came with the
child restraint. Secure the child restraint when and
as the instructions say.
See Top Strap on page
1-39 if the child restraint
has one.
1. Make the belt as long as possible by tilting the latch
plate and pulling it along the belt.
2. Put the restraint on the seat.
3. Run the vehicle’s safety belt through or around the
restraint. The child restraint instructions will show
you how.
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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 chiid restraint.
if you're using a
forward-facing child restraint, you may find it helpful
to use your knee to push the child restraint
as
you tighten the belt.
directions to be sure it is secure.
6. Push and pull the child restraint in different
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
t a rear facing child restraint in this seat. Here’s why:
I A CAUTION:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed
if the right front
passenger’s air bag inflates. This
is because
the back of the rear-facing child restraint
would be very close to the inflating air bag.
Always secure
a rear-facing child restraint in
a rear seat.
Although a rear seat is a safer place, you can secure a
forward-facing child restraint in the right front seat.
You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See the earlier part
about the Top Strap on page
7-39, if the child restraint
has one. Be sure to follow 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’s
air bag, always move the seat as far back as it will
go before securing a forward-facing child restraint.
See Manual Seats on page
1-2.
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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