2007 HONDA S2000 child lock

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This section gives you important
inf ormation about how to protect
yourself and your passenger. It
shows you how to use seat belts. It
explains how your airbags work. And
it tells you how to properly restrain
children in your vehicle. .........
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 . 10
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1. Close and Lock the Doors . 10
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2. Adjust the Seats .10
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3. Adjust the Seat-Backs . 11
4. Fasten and Position the .............................
Seat Belts .12
5. Maintain a Proper Sitting ................................
Position .13
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Advice f or Pregnant Women . 14
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Additional Safety Precautions . 15
Additional Inf ormation About .......................
Your Seat Belts .16
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Seat Belt System Components . 16
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Lap/Shoulder Belt .17
Automatic Seat Belt ...............................
Tensioners .18
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Seat Belt Maintenance . 18
Additional Inf ormation About Your .....................................
Airbags .20
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Airbag System Components . 20
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How Your Airbags Work . 22
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How the SRS Indicator Works . 25How the Passenger Airbag Of f
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Indicator Works .26
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Airbag Service .27
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Additional Safety Precautions . 28
Protecting Children General ................................
Guidelines .29
All Children Must Be ...............................
Restrained .29
Your Vehicle is Not Recommended f or Child ..........................
Passengers .30
The Passenger’s Airbag .........
Can Pose Serious Risks . 30
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Additional Safety Precautions . 32
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Protecting Small Children . 33
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Selecting a Child Seat .34
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Installing a Child Seat .34
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Protecting Larger Children . 37
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Checking Seat Belt Fit . 37
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Using a Booster Seat . 38
When Can a Larger Child Ride ........................
in This Vehicle .39
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Additional Safety Precautions . 40
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Carbon Monoxide Hazard . 41
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Saf ety Labels .42
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
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µAdjust the driver’s seat as far to the
rear as possible while allowing you to
maintain full control of the vehicl e.
Have a passenger adjust his or her
seat as far to the rear as possible.
Lo
cking the doors reduces the
ch ance of someone being thro wn out
of the vehicle during a crash, and it
helps prevent a passenger from
accidentally opening a door and
falling out.
Lo cking the doors also helps prevent
an outsider from unexp ectedly
opening a door when you come to a
stop.
See page for how to lock the
doors, and page for how the door-
open indicator works.
If you sit too close to the steering
wh eel or dashboard, you can be
seriously injured by an inflating front
ai rbag, or by striking the steering
wh eel or dashboard.
The
following pages pro vide
instru ctions on how to properly
protect the driver, an adult
passenger or teenage child large
enough and mature enough to drive
or ride in your vehicle. See pages f or important guidelines on
how to properly protect a child in a
forward-facing child seat or a larger
child passenger.
Your vehicle has door and trunk
monitor indicators on the instrument
panel to indicate when either door or
the trunk is not tightly closed. After everyone has entered the
vehicle, be sure the doors are closed
and locked. 40
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Protecting A dults and Teens
Adjust the Seats
Introduction
Close and L ock the Doors
1. 2.
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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 buckl e, then tug on the
belt to make sure the buckle is
latched (see page for how to
properly position the belt).
To unlock the belt, press the red
PRESSbuttononthebuckle.Guide
the belt across your body so that it
retracts completely. After exiting the
vehicle, be sure the belt is out of the
way and will not get closed in the
door. Both
seat belts have an emergency
retracto r. In norm al driving, the
retractor lets you move freely in your
seat while it keeps some tension on
the belt. During a collision or sudden
stop, the retractor automatically
locks the belt to help restrain your
body.
The passenger’s seat belt has a
lockable retractor that must be
activated to secure a forward-facing
child seat (see page ).
If the shoulder part of the belt is
pulled all the way out, the lockable
retractor will activate. The belt will
retract, but it will not allow the
passenger to move f reely.
To deactivate the lockable retractor,
unlatch the buckle and let the seat
belt fully retract. To refasten the
seat belt, pull it out only as f ar as
needed.
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Additional Inf ormation About Your Seat Belts
L ap/Shoulder Belt
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
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If they do, they
could be very seriously injured in a
crash. Leaving
children without
adult supervision is illegal in most
states and Canadian provinces,
and can be very hazardous. Even
very young
children learn how to unlock
vehicle doors, turn on the ignition
switch, and open the trunk, which
can lead to accide ntal injury or
death.
For
example, a small child left in a
vehicle on a hot day can die from
heatstro ke. A child left alone with
the key in the ignition switch can
accidentally set the vehicle in
motion, possibly injuring
themselves or others.
Children who play in vehicl es can
accidentally get trapped inside.
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
feature(seepage ).
During a crash, the
belt could press deep into the child
and cause serious or fatal injuries. If you are not wearing a seat
belt in a crash, you could be
thrown forward and crush the
child against the dashboard. If you
are wearing a seat belt, the child
canbetornfromyourarmsandbe
seriously hurt or killed.
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Additional Saf ety Precautions
Never let two children use the
same seat belt . Do not leave children alone in a
vehicle. K eep vehicle keys and remot e
transmitters out of the reach ofchildren.
Lock both doors and the trunk when your vehicle is not in use.
Never put a seat belt over yourself
and a child.
Never hold a small child on your
lap.
Protecting Children General Guidelines
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With the child seat in 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.
In this vehicle, a f orward-f acing child
seat must be secured to the vehicle
with the lap part of the lap/shoulder
belt. In addition, the lockable
retractor must be activated to secure
a child seat.
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
the belt out, it is not locked and
you will need to repeat these steps.
Move the vehicle seat to the rear-
most position. Moving the seat as
f ar back as possible reduces the
chance of a child being injured or
killed if the passenger’s airbag
inf lates.
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3.4.
Installing a Child Seat
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
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To remove slack, it may help to
putweightonthechildseat,or
push on the back of the seat while
pulling up on the belt.Push and pull the child seat
f orward and f rom side-to-side to
verify that it is secure enough to
stay upright during normal driving
maneuvers. If the child seat is not
secure, unlatch the belt, allow it to
retract f ully, then repeat these
steps.To deactivate the lockable retractor
andremoveachildseat,unlatchthe
buckle, unroute the seat belt, and let
the belt fully retract.
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.
5.
6.
Installing a Child Seat
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You can also use the master key to
open the trunk lock.
To open the trunk with the remote
transmitter, press and hold the
TRUNK RELEASE button for about
1second(seepage ).Keep
the trunk lid closed at all times
while driving to avoid damaging the
lid, and to prevent exhaust gas from
getting into the interior. See
on page .
As a safety feature, your vehicle has
a release lever on the trunk latch so
the trunk can be opened from the
inside. To open the trunk, push the
rele ase lever to the left.
Parents should decide if their
children should be shown how to use
this feature. For more information
about child saf ety, see page .
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Emergency T runk Opener
Carbon
Monoxide Hazard
Trunk
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MASTER KEY

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Changing Oil
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How to .147
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When to .135
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Charging System Indicator . 46, 186
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Checklist, Bef ore Driving . 123
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Child Saf ety .29
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Booster Seats .38
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Child Seats .34
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Important Saf ety Reminders . 32
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Larger Children .37
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Risk with Airbags .30
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Small Children .33
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Child Seats .34
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Cleaning Seat Belts .160
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Clock .54
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Clutch Fluid .154
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CO in the Exhaust .207
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Cold Weather, Starting in . 124
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Compact Spare Tire .174
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Consumer Inf ormation . 212
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Controls, Instruments and . 43
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Convertible Top .70
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Convertible Top Cover . 72
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Lowering the Convertible Top . 70
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Maintenance .74
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Raising the Convertible Top . 73Coolant
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Adding .149
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Checking .114
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Proper Solution .149
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Temperature Gauge . 53
Crankcase Emission Control ........................................
System .207
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Cruise Control Indicator . 47
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Cruise Control Operation . 106
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Cup Holder .78
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Customer Service Of f ice . 212
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DANGER, Explanation of . iii
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Dashboard . 3, 44
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Dashboard Lower Pocket . 80
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Daytime Running Lights . 57
Daytime Running Lights .......................................
Indicator .48
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Dead Battery .182
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Defects, Reporting Safety . 214
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Def ogger, Rear Window . 59
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Defrosting the Windows . 87
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Dif f erential Fluid .153
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Dimensions .202 ...............
Dimming the Headlights . 57
Dipstick ..................................
Engine Oil .113
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Directional Signals .57
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Disc Brake Wear Indicators . 128
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Disposal of Used Oil .149
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Do Not Tow a Trailer . 131
Doors ..............
Locking and Unlocking . 63
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Monitor Indicator .47
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Power Door Locks .63
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DOT Tire Quality Grading . 204
Downshif ting, Manual .............................
Transmission .126
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Driver and Passenger Safety . 5
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Driving .121
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Economy .114
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Driving Guidelines .122
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DustandPollenFilter . 161
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Economy, Fuel .114
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Emergencies .173
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Battery, Jump Starting . 182
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Brake System Indicator . 188
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