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When using the vehicle safety belt to install a
child restraint (except a booster seat), you
must activate the switchable locking feature
on the safety belt to help prevent the child re-
straint from moving
. Always follow the
child restraint manufacturer’s instructions
when installing a child restraint.
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Attach the Top Tether strap or straps to the
tether anchorage for the seating position
where the child restraint is being installed with
either the LATCH/UCRA system or with a safe-
ty belt
→
.
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Follow the manufacturer's instructions for po-
sitioning the handle of the car seat when it is
installed in the vehicle.
The airbag on the passenger side makes the front
seat a potentially dangerous place for a child to
ride. The front seat is not the safest place for a
child in a forward-facing child restraint. It is a
very dangerous place for an infant or a larger
child in a rearward-facing seat.
You must take special precautions when instal-
ling a child restraint with the vehicle safety belt
or with LATCH/UCRA lower universal anchorages
on a rear seating position. Always route the cen-
ter safety belt and the unused safety belt for the
seating position where the child restraint is being
installed securely out of the child’s reach. Secur-
ing the safety belts will help prevent a child from
playing with an unused safety belt and becoming
entangled with it
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DANGER
Not using a child restraint, using the wrong
child restraint or improperly installing a child
restraint increases the risk of serious personal
injury and death in a collision or other emer-
gency situation.
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Never install rearward-facing child restraints
or infant carriers on the front passenger seat,
even with an Advanced Airbag System. A
child will be seriously injured and can be kil-
led when the inflating airbag hits the child
restraint or infant carrier with great force
and smashes the child restraint and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door or
roof.
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Always install rearward-facing child re-
straints and infant carriers on the rear seats.
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Never install a rearward-facing child restraint
in the forward-facing direction. These re-
straints are designed for the special needs of
infants and very small children and cannot
protect them properly if the seat is forward-
facing.
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If you must install a rearward facing child re-
straint on the front passenger seat because
of exceptional circumstances, but the PAS-
SENGER AIR BAG
light does not come
on and stay on, immediately install the rear-
ward-facing child restraint at a seating posi-
tion on the rear rows and have the airbag
system inspected right away by your author-
ized Volkswagen dealer or authorized Volks-
wagen Service Facility.
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Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child restraint in a vehicle. See
→
chapter
Safety belts
,
→
chapter
Airbag sys-
tem
, and
→
WARNING
A child in a child restraint installed with the
LATCH/UCRA lower universal anchorages or
with the standard safety belt on the rear seat
may play with unused rear seat safety belts and
become entangled, resulting in serious personal
injury and even death.
●
Always secure unused rear seat safety belts
out of the reach of children in child restraints
such as by properly routing them around the
head restraint adjacent to the seating posi-
tion where the child restraint is installed.
NOTICE
●
Be careful not to activate the switchable lock-
ing retractor when routing the unused safety
belt around the head restraint adjacent to the
seat where a child restraint has been installed.
●
Only pull the unused safety belt out far
enough to allow you to route the belt around
the head restraint.
●
When installing a child restraint with a safety
belt, be careful not to get the belt caught in
the structure of the child restraint and become
damaged, especially when the switchable
locking feature has been activated.
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