GMC Denali 2004, Owner'S Manual

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Where to Put the Restraint
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they
are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat.
General Motors recommends that child restraints
be secured in a rear seat including an infant riding in a
rear-facing infant seat, a child riding in a forward-facing
child seat and an older child riding in a booster seat.
Never put a child in a rear-facing child restraint in
the right front passenger seat unless your vehicle has
the passenger sensing system and/or an air bag
off switch and the air bag status indicator shows off.
Never put a rear facing child restraint in the right front
passenger seat unless the air bag is off. Here is why:
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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. Be sure the air
bag is off before using a rear-facing child
restraint in the right front seat position.
CAUTION: (Continued)
CAUTION: (Continued)
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
deployunder 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.
If you secure a forward-facing child restraint
in the right front seat, always move the front
passenger seat as far back as it will go. It is
better to secure the child restraint in a
rear seat.
If your vehicle has the passenger sensing system
and/or the air bag off switch and you need to secure a
rear-facing child restraint in the right front passenger’s
seat, the passenger’s frontal air bag must be off.
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