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CAUTION
A child in a rear-facing child
restraint in the front passenger
seating position could be
seriously injured or killed if the
passenger's air bag inflates. This
is because the back of the
restraint would be very close to
the inflating air bag.
A child in a forward-facing child
restraint in the front passenger
seating position could be
seriously injured or killed if the
passenger's air bag inflates and
the passenger seat is in a
forward position.
If, however, you secure a
forward-facing child restraint in
the front passenger seat, be
sure to move the front passen-
ger seat as far back as it will go.
CAUTION
(Continued)
Although your vehicle is
equipped with a passenger air
bag deactivation feature
which is designed to turn off
the front passenger's frontal air
bag under certain conditions,
no system is fail-safe. No one
can guarantee that an air bag
will not deploy under some
unusual circumstance,
even though the system is
deactivated.
In fact, because the risk to a
rear-facing child is so great if
the air bag deploys, there is a
label on your vehicle's sun visor
that cautions you never to put a
rear-facing child seat in the
front.
It is therefore recommended
that child restraints be secured
in a rear seat position even if the
front passenger's air bag is
turned off.
When the vehicle is started with a
child restraint installed in the front
passenger seat, the "off" indicator
should appear in the passenger
sensing system status bar after
the system has completed its self-
check.
If a child restraint has been
installed and the passenger
sensing system has not
deactivated the air bag, turn
the vehicle off. Remove and then
reinstall the child restraint.
Follow the manufacturer's
instructions.
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