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D. General Vehicle Information
Review your vehicle owner’s manual for vehicle seat belt use
with child restraints. This is your best source for information
concerning your vehicle.
Not all vehicle belts will work with this child restraint. This
child restraint must be tightly locked in place at all times,
during travel. You must determine if your vehicles belts are
compatible with this child restraint.
Vehicle Belts
• Automatic/Passive vehicle seat belts
You MUST have a vehicle lap belt to install any child
restraint. An automatic (passive) shoulder vehicle belt may
or may not have a separate vehicle lap belt. Consult your
vehicle owner’s manual.
• Vehicle belts in center of the door
or side panel
You must move the child restraint to
another seating location. Consult your
vehicle owner’s manual.
• Vehicle belts that are in front of the
seat bight
You may need to move the child restraint
to another seating location. Consult your
vehicle owner’s manual.
• Do Not Use with inflatable seat belts
You may need to move the child restraint to another seating
location or use LATCH belts only.
• ELR (Emergency Locking Retractor) vehicle belts
These lap and shoulder vehicle belts only lock in a sudden
stop or crash, and do not properly secure a child restraint
alone. Consult your vehicle owner’s manual.
To determine if you have this type of
vehicle belt, gently pull the vehicle belt
all the way out of the retractor (spool),
let it return several inches, then pull on
it again.
D-4
Knowing Your Vehicle Belts
• Switchable retractor
These vehicle belts switch from ELR to ALR (Automatic
Locking Retractor). You must have the vehicle belts in
the locking mode to use them. Follow the instructions in
the installation sections.
• ALR (Automatic Locking Retractor)
These vehicle belts lock after pulling the webbing out
and letting the vehicle belt go back into the retractor an
inch or two. Follow the instructions in the installation
sections.
Vehicle Latch Plates
• Check the Latch Plates
Grasp the tongue portion of
the latch plate (the part that
goes inside the buckle) and
pull straight out, in line with
the vehicle lap belt. If the
latch plate does not slide up
and down the vehicle belt,
you have a locking latch plate.
You should not need to use
a locking clip. Consult your
vehicle owner’s manual.
If the latch plate slides up and down on the vehicle belt,
and you have an ELR retractor, you
MUST
use a locking
clip to install the child restraint. You may not need to
use the locking clip with a switchable or ALR retractor.
Consult your vehicle owner’s manual.
Locking
Latch
Plate
Sliding
Latch
Plate
ELR lap-only vehicle belts MUST NOT be
used with this child restraint.
If it moves freely, it is an ELR vehicle belt.
If it is locked and will not allow any more vehicle belt to
come out, it is a switchable retractor.
