WARNING
Accident statistics have shown that children are
generally safer in the rear seat area than in the
front seating position. Always restrain any child
age 12 and under in the rear.
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All vehicle occupants and especially children
must be restrained properly whenever riding
in a vehicle. An unrestrained or improperly
restrained child could be injured by striking
the interior or by being ejected from the ve-
hicle during a sudden maneuver or impact.
An unrestrained or improperly restrained
child is also at greater risk of injury or death
through contact with an inflating airbag.
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A suitable child restraint properly installed
and used at one of the rear seating positions
provides the highest degree of protection for
infants and small children in most accident
situations.
WARNING
Forward-facing child restraints installed on the
front passenger seat may interfere with the de-
ployment of the airbag and cause serious per-
sonal injury to the child.
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If exceptional circumstances require the use
of a forward-facing child restraint on the
front passenger's seat, the child's safety and
well-being require the following special pre-
cautions to be taken:
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Always make sure that the forward-facing
seat has been designed and certified by its
manufacturer for use on a front passenger
seat with a front and side airbag.
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Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instructions provided with the child re-
straint or infant carrier.
–
Never install a child restraint without a
properly attached top tether strap if the
child restraint manufacturer's instructions
require the top tether strap for proper in-
stallation, or if required by law. For exam-
ple, the use of a top tether strap for for-
ward-facing child restraints is required by
law in Canada.
–
Never put the forward-facing child re-
straint up against or very near the instru-
ment panel.
–
Always set the safety belt upper anchor-
age to the adjustment position that per-
mits proper installation in accordance with
the child restraint manufacturer's instruc-
tions.
–
Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest position in the up and down
adjustment range and move it back to the
rearmost position in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment range, as far away from the
airbag as possible before installing the for-
ward-facing child restraint.
–
Always make sure that the safety belt up-
per anchorage is behind the child restraint
and not next to or in front of the child re-
straint so that the safety belt will be prop-
erly positioned.
–
Always make sure that nothing is in the
way that prevents the front passenger's
seat from being moved to the rearmost
position in its fore and aft adjustment
range.
–
Always make sure that the backrest is in
the upright position.
–
Never place objects on the seat (such as a
laptop, CD player, or electronic games de-
vice). These may influence the electrical
capacitance measured by the capacitive
passenger detection system and can also
fly around in an accident and cause serious
personal injury.
–
Never place or use any electrical device
(such as a laptop, CD player, or electronic
games device) on the front passenger seat
if the device is connected to the 12 Volt
socket
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Power outlets
.
–
If a seat heater has been retrofitted or
otherwise added to the front passenger
seat, never install any child restraint sys-
tem on this seat.
–
Make sure that there are no wet objects
(such as a wet towel) and no water or oth-
er liquids on the front passenger seat
cushion.
–
Always make sure that the PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG
light comes on and
stays on all the time whenever the ignition
is switched on.
–
If the PASSENGER AIR BAG
light
does not come on and stay on, immediate-
ly install the forward-facing child restraint
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