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Child restraints

All occupants – especially children –

should be restrained whenever riding in

cars.

Infants or small children should never

be held on the lap of a passenger.

Children should always sit in the rear

and, depending on age, use either a

child restraint system or the existing

safety belts. Accident statistics have

shown that children are safer when

properly restrained in the rear seats

than in the front seating positions.

This is the right way a child should sit in This is the right way a larger child

a child restraint when rear side bags

(arrow) are installed.

Infants or toddlers should be secured

with a child restraint system appro-

priate for their size.

should sit wearing the safety belt when

rear side airbags (arrow) are installed.

Commercially-available child restraint

systems are designed to be secured

with a lap belt or with the lap belt por-

tion of a combination lap/shoulder belt.

Improperly or inadequately installed re-

straint systems can increase the risk of

injury to children. Always read and fol-

low the instructions that come with the

system.

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Before installing any child-restraint Never install a rear-facing child restraint

device or child seat, please read system in the front passenger seat.

the following: We strongly urge you to carefully read

Never install a rear-facing child restraint and observe the instructions for instal-

system in the front passenger seat of

this car.

lation and use provided by the child re-

straint's manufacturer whenever you

use such a device.

Be sure that all occupants (of all ages)

Your car is equipped with an airbag

supplemental restraint system for the

front passenger. Because the backrest remain properly and securely restrained

on any rear-facing child restraint sys-

tem (of the kind designed for infants un-

der 1 year and 20 lbs./9 kg) would be

within the airbag's deployment range,

you should never mount such a device

in the front passenger seat, as the im-

pact of the airbag against the child re-

straint's backrest could lead to serious

or fatal injuries.

at all times.<

All rear seating positions in your

vehicle meet the recommendations

of SAE J1819, an industry recom-

mended practice for securing child

restraint systems in motor vehicles.

If you use a child restraint system with a

tether strap, three additional tether an-

chorage points (refer to the arrows in

the illustration) have been provided.

Depending on the location selected for

seating in the rear passenger area, at-

tach the tether strap to the correspond-

ing anchorage point to secure the child

restraint system. Remove the cover first

on the middle location.

If it is necessary for a child (not an in-

fant) to ride in the front seat, certain

precautions should be taken. First,

move the passenger seat as far away

from the dashboard as possible. This

important precaution is intended to

maximize the distance between the air-

bag and the child. Older children

should be tightly secured with the

safety belt. Younger children should be

secured in an appropriate forward-fac-

ing child restraint system that has first

been properly secured with a safety

belt.

If the respective seating position is fit-

ted with a headrest lift the headrest and

pass the tether strap between the

headrest and the seat back.

Adjust the tether strap according to the

child restraint manufacturer's instruc-

tions.

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