Chevrolet 2004 Silverado 1500 Pickup, Owner'S Manual

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Securing a Child Restraint Designed
for the LATCH System (Front)
Your vehicle has a right front passenger air bag. There
is a switch on the instrument panel that you can use
to turn off the right front passenger’s frontal air bag. See
the following illustration. Your switch may vary slightly.
See
Air Bag Off Switch on page 1-75 for more on
this, including important safety information and
illustrations of alternate switch designs.
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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
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would be very close to the inflating air bag. Be
sure the air bag is off before using a
rear-facing child restraint in the right front seat
position.
Even though the passenger sensing system
and/or air bag off switch are designed to turn
off the passenger’s frontal air bag under
certain conditions, no system is fail-safe, and
no one can guarantee that an air bag will not
deploy under some unusual circumstance,
even though it is turned off. General Motors
recommends that rear-facing child restraints
be transported in vehicles with a rear seat that
will accommodate a rear-facing child restraint,
whenever possible.
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