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This section gives you important
inf ormation about how to protect
yourself and your passengers. It
shows you how to use seat belts
properly. It explains how your airbag
work, and it tells you how to properly
restrain inf ants and children in your
vehicle.
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Important Safety Precautions . 6
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Your Vehicle’s Saf ety Features . 7
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Seat Belts . 8
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Airbags . 9
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Protecting Adults and Teens . 11
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1. Close and Lock the Doors . 11
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2. Adjust the Front Seats . 11
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3. Adjust the Seat-Backs . 12
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4. Adjust the Head Restraints . 13
5. Fasten and Position the
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Lap/Shoulder Seat Belts . 14
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6. Adjust the Steering Wheel . 15
7. Maintain a Proper Sitting
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Position . 15
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Advice f or Pregnant Women . 16
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Additional Safety Precautions . 16 Additional Inf ormation About Your
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Seat Belts . 18
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Seat Belt System Components . 18
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Lap/Shoulder Belt . 18
Automatic Seat Belt
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Tensioners . 19
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Seat Belt Maintenance . 19
Additional Inf ormation About ...........................
Your Airbags . 21
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Airbag System Components . 21
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Advanced Airbags . 24
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How Your Side Airbags Work . 26
How Your Side Curtain
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Airbags Work . 27
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How the SRS Indicator Works . 27
How the Side Airbag Of f
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Indicator Works . 28
How the Passenger Airbag ...............
Of f Indicator Works . 29
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Airbag Service . 30
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Additional Safety Precautions . 31
Protecting Children General ................................
Guidelines . 32
All Children Must Be ...............................
Restrained . 32 All Children Should Sit in the
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Back Seat . 33
The Passenger’s Front Airbag .........
Can Pose Serious Risks . 33
If You Must Drive with Several ...................................
Children . 35
If a Child Requires Close ..................................
Attention . 35
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Additional Safety Precautions . 36
Protecting Inf ants and Small ....................................
Childlen . 37
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Protecting Inf ants . 37
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Protecting Small Children . 38
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Selecting a Child Seat . 39
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Installing a Child Seat . 40
Installing a Child Seat with .....................................
LATCH . 41
Installing a Child Seat with ...............
a Lap/Shoulder Belt . 43
Installing a Child Seat with ...................................
a Tether . 45
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Protecting Larger Children . 47
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Carbon Monoxide Hazard . 51
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Saf ety Labels . 52
How Your Front Airbags Work
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
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The f ollowing pages provide
instructions on how to properly
protect the driver, adult passengers,
and teenage children who are large
enough and mature enough to ride in
the f ront. See pages f or
important guidelines on how to
properly protect inf ants, small
children, and larger children who
ride in your vehicle.Af ter everyone has entered the
vehicle, be sure the doors are closed
and locked.
Locking the doors reduces the
chance of someone being thrown out
of the vehicle during a crash, and it
helps prevent passengers f rom
accidentally opening a door and
f alling out.
Locking the doors also helps prevent
an outsider f rom unexpectedly
opening a door when you come to a
stop.
Adjust the driver’s seat as far to the
rear as possible while allowing you to
maintain f ull control of the vehicle.
Have a front passenger adjust their
seat as far to the rear as possible.
Your vehicle has a door monitor
indicator on the instrument panel to
indicate when a specif ic door is not
tightly closed.
See page f or how to lock the
doors, and page f or how the
monitor indicator works.
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Protecting A dults and Teens
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Introduction Close and L ock the Doors A djust the Front Seats
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Your seat belt system includes lap/
shoulder belts in all f ive seating
positions. The f ront seat belts are
also equipped with automatic seat
belt tensioners.The seat belt system
includes an indicator on the
instrument panel to remind you and
your passengers to f asten your belts.
If you turn the ignition switch to ON
(II) without f astening your belt, a
beeper will sound and the indicator
will blink. The beeper will stop af ter
several seconds, but the indicator
will stay on until the driver’s seat belt
is f astened.
If you do not f asten your seat belt
bef ore the beeper stops, the
indicator will stop blinking but
remain on. If you continue driving
without f astening your seat belt, the
indicator will start blinking again and the beeper will sound at regular
intervals.
The lap and shoulder belt goes over
your shoulder, across your chest,
and across your hips.
To fasten the belt, insert the latch
plate into the buckle, then tug on the
belt to make sure the buckle is
latched (see page f or how to
properly position the belt).
To unlock the belt, push the red
PRESSbuttononthebuckle.Guide
the belt across your body so that it
retracts completely. Af ter exiting the
vehicle, be sure the belt is out of the
way and will not get closed in the
door.
All seat belts have an emergency
locking retractor. In normal driving,
the retractor lets you move f reely in
your seat while it keeps sometension on the belt. During a collision
or sudden stop, the retractor
automatically locks the belt to help
restrain your body.
The seat belts in all positions except
the driver’s have an additional
locking mechanism that must be
activated to secure a child seat (see
page ).
If the shoulder part of the belt is
pulled all the way out, the locking
mechanism will activate. The belt
will retract, but it will not allow the
passenger to move f reely.
To deactivate the locking
mechanism, unlatch the buckle, and
let the seat belt f ully retract. To
ref asten the belt, pull it out only as
f ar as needed.
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Additional Inf ormation About Your Seat Belts
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Seat Belt System Components
L ap/Shoulder Belt
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Never put a seat belt over yourself
and a child. During a crash, the
belt could press deep into the child
and cause serious or fatal injuries.
Never let two children use the
same seat belt. If they do, they
could be very seriously injured in a
crash.Do not leave children alone in a
vehicle. Leaving children without
adult supervision is illegal in most
states and Canadian provinces,
and can be very hazardous.
For example, infants and small
childrenleftinavehicleonahot
day can die f rom heatstroke. A
child lef t alone with the key in the
ignition can accidentally set the
vehicle in motion, possibly injuring
themselves or others.
Lock both doors and the trunk
when your vehicle is not in use.
Children who play in vehicles can
accidentally get trapped inside the
trunk and be seriously injured or
could die. Teach your children not
to play in or around vehicles.
Know how to operate the
emergency trunk opener and
decide if your children should be
shown how to use this f eature (see
page ).Keep vehicle keys/remote
transmitters out of the reach of
children. Even very young
children learn how to unlock
vehicle doors, turn on the ignition,
and open the trunk, which can
lead to accidental injury or death.
Neverholdaninfantorchildon
your lap. If you are not wearing a
seat belt in crash, you could be
thrown f orward and crush the
child against the dashboard or a
seat-back. If you are wearing a
seat belt, the child can be torn
from your arms and be seriously
hurt or killed.
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Additional Saf ety Precautions
Protecting Children General Guidelines
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Only a rear-f acing child seat provides
proper support f or a baby’s head,
neck, and back.Two types of seats may be used: a
seat designed exclusively f or inf ants,
or a convertible seat used in the rear-
f acing, reclining mode.
An inf ant must be properly
restrained in a rear-f acing, reclining
child seat until the child reaches the
seat maker’s weight or height limit
f or the seat, and the child is at least
one year old. If placed
f acing f orward, an inf ant could be
very seriously injured during a
f rontal collision. A rear-f acing child seat should
always be installed in a back seat, not
in the f ront. Even with adbanced
airbags, which can automatically
turn the passenger’s f ront airbag of f
(see page ), a back seat is the
saf est place f or an inf ant.
When properly installed, a rear-
f acing child seat may prevent the
driver or a f ront passenger f rom
moving the seat as far back as
recommended, or f rom locking the
seat-back in the desired position.
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Protecting Inf ants and Small Children
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Protecting Inf ants
Child Seat T ype
Do not put a rear-f acing child seat ina f orward-f acing position. Child Seat Placement
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Placing a rear-facing child seat
in the front seat can result in
serious injury or death during acollision.
Always place a rear-facing child
seat in the back seat, not thefront.
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When not using the LATCH system,
all child seats must be secured to the
vehicle with the lap part of a lap/
shoulder belt.
In addition, the lap/shoulder belts in
the rear seat and the f ront passenger
seat have a locking mechanism that
must be activated to secure a child
seat.With the child seat in the desired
seating position, route the belt
through the child seat according
to the seat maker’s instructions,
then insert the latch plate into the
buckle.To activate the lockable retractor,
slowly pull the shoulder part of the
belt all the way out until it stops,
then let the belt f eed back into the
retractor.
Af ter the belt has retracted, tug on
it. If the belt is locked, you will not
be able to pull it out. If you can pull
thebeltout,itisnotlocked,and
you will need to repeat these steps.
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Installing a Child Seat
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Installing a Child Seat with a L ap/
Shoulder Belt
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To deactivate the locking
mechanism and remove a child seat,
unlatch the buckle, unroute the seat
belt, and let the belt f ully retract.
Push and pull the child seat
f orward and f rom side to side to
verif y that it is f irmly secured. If
the child seat is not secure,
unlatch the belt, allow it to retract
f ully, then repeat these steps.
Af ter conf irming that the belt is
locked, grab the shoulder part of
the belt near the buckle and pull
up to remove any slack from the
lap part of the belt. Remember, if
the lap part of the belt is not tight,
the child seat will not be secure.
To remove slack, it may help to
putweightonthechildseat,or
push on the back of the seat while
pulling up on the belt. 5.
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Youcanopenthetrunkintwoways:Pull the trunk release handle to
the lef t of the driver’s seat.
Press and hold the trunk release
button on the remote transmitter.
To close the trunk, press down on
the trunk lid. Keep the trunk lid closed at all times
while driving to avoid damaging the
lid, and to prevent exhaust gas f rom
getting into the interior. See
on page .
To protect items in the trunk when
you need to give the key to someone
else: Lock the trunk release handle
with the master key.
Give the person the valet key. As a saf ety f eature, your vehicle has
a release lever on the trunk latch so
the trunk can be opened f rom the
inside. To open the trunk, push the
release lever to the lef t.
Parents should decide if their
children should be shown how to use
this feature.
For more inf ormation about child
saf ety, see page .
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Trunk
Inst rument s and Cont rols
Trunk Carbon
Monoxide Hazard Emergency T runk Opener
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Pull
TRUNK RELEASE HANDLE MASTER
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