2005 Acura MDX child restraint

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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
airbags work, and it tells you how to
properly restrain infants and
children in your vehicle.
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Important Safety Precautions . 8
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Your Vehicle’s Saf ety Features . 9
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Protecting Adults and Teens . 13
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1. Close and Lock the Doors . 13
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2. Adjust the Front Seats . 13
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3. Adjust the Seat-Backs . 14
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4. Adjust the Head Restraints . 15
5. Fasten and Position the Seat .....................................
Belts .16
6. Maintain a Proper Sitting ................................
Position .18
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Advice f or Pregnant Women . 18
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Additional Safety Precautions . 19Additional Inf ormation About Your
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Seat Belts .21
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Seat Belt System Components . 21
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Lap/Shoulder Belt .21
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Seat Belt Maintenance . 23
Additional Inf ormation About Your .....................................
Airbags .24
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Airbag System Components . 24
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Advanced Airbag .28
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How Your Side Airbags Work . 29
How Your Side Curtain Airbag .........................................
Work .31
How the SRS Indicator Light .......................................
Works .32
How The Side Airbag Of f ......................
Indicator Works .32
How the Passenger Airbag ...............
Of f Indicator Works . 33
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Airbag Service .33
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Additional Safety Precautions . 34
Protecting Children General ................................
Guidelines .35
All Children Must Be ...............................
Restrained .35 All Children Should Sit in a Back
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Seat .36
The Passenger’s Front Airbag Can Pose Serious Risks to ...............................
Children .36
If You Must Drive with Several ...................................
Children .38
If a Child Requires Close ..................................
Attention .38
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Additional Safety Precautions . 38
Protecting inf ants and .........................
Small Children .40
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Protecting Inf ants .40
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Protecting Small Children . 41
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Selecting a Child Seat .43
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Installing a Child Seat .44
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With LATCH .45
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With a Seat Belt .47
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With a Tether .48
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Protecting Larger Children . 50
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Checking Seat Belt Fit . 51
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Using a Booster Seat .51
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When Can a Child Sit in Front . 52
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Carbon Monoxide Hazard . 54
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Saf ety Labels .55
Automatic Seat Belt Tensioners
How Your Front Airbags Work
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
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The seat belts in all seating 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.For added protection, the f ront seat
belts are equipped with automatic
seat belt tensioners. When activated,
the tensioners immediately tighten
the belts to help hold the driver and
a f ront passenger in place.
The tensioners are designed to
activate in any collision severe
enough to cause the f ront airbags to
deploy, or if a sensor detects your
vehicle is about to rollover (see page
). If a side curtain airbag deploys
during a side impact, the tensioner
on that side of the vehicle will also
deploy.
The tensioners can also be activated
during a collision in which the f ront
airbags
. In this case, the
airbags would not be needed, but the
additional restraint could be helpf ul.
When the tensioners are activated,
the seat belts will remain tight until
they are unbuckled in the normal
manner.
If the f ront seat belt tensioners ever
activate, they must be replaced as
the belts will no longer retract
properly.
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do not deploy
A utomatic Seat Belt T ensioners
Additional Inf ormation About Your Seat Belts
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Whatever type you have, f ollow
the child seat maker’s instructions
f or adjusting or tightening the f it.Push and pull the child seat
f orward and f rom side to side to
verif y that it is secure.
Other LATCH-compatible seats have
a f lexible-type connector as shown
above. Lif t the head restraint (see page
), then route the tether strap
through the legs of the head
restraint, over the seat-back,
making sure the strap is not
twisted.
Attach the tether strap hook to the
tether anchor, then tighten the
strap as instructed by the child
seat maker.
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Installing a Child Seat
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FLEXIBLE TYPE ANCHOR
TETHER STRAP HOOK

Each second row seat has a tether
anchorage point behind the seat-
back.Af ter properly securing the child
seat (see page ), lif t the head
restraint, then route the tether
strap over the seat-back.Attach the tether strap hook to the
anchor, making sure the strap is
not twisted.
Tighten the strap according to the
seat maker’s instructions.
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Second Row Inst allat ion
Installing a Child Seat
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
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TETHER ANCHORAGE POINT