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Rear door child safety lock
The child safety lock is provided to
help prevent children from acciden-
tally opening the rear doors from
inside the vehicle. The rear door
safety locks should be used whenev-
er children are in the vehicle.
1. Open the rear door.
2. Push the child safety lock located
on the rear edge of the door to the
“lock” position. When the child
safety lock is in the “lock (
)”
position, rear door will not open
when the inner door handle is
pulled inside the vehicle.
3. Close the rear door.
To open the rear door, pull the out-
side door handle.
Even though the doors may be
unlocked, the rear door will not open
by pulling the inner door handle until
rear door child safety lock is
unlocked (
).
WARNING
- Rear door
locks
If children accidentally open the
rear doors while the vehicle is in
motion, they could fall out of the
vehicle, resulting in severe
injury or death. To prevent chil-
dren from opening the rear
doors from the inside, the rear
door safety locks should be
used whenever children are in
the vehicle.
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