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SEATS AND RESTRAINT SYSTEMS
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If your vehicle does not have a rear seat
that will accommodate a rear-facing child
restraint, we recommend that rear-facing
child restraints not be transported in your
vehicle, even if the airbag is off.
The passenger sensing system is
designed to turn off the right front passen-
ger’s frontal airbag if:
• The right front passenger seat is unoc-
cupied.
• The system determines that an infant is
present in a rear-facing infant seat.
• The system determines that a small child
is present in a child restraint.
• The system determines that a small child
is present in a booster seat.
• A right front passenger takes his/her
weight off of the seat for a period of time.
• The right front passenger seat is occu-
pied by a smaller person, such as a child
who has outgrown child restraints.
• Or, if there is a critical problem with the
airbag system or the passenger sensing
system.
When the passenger sensing system has
turned off the right front passenger’s fron-
tal airbag, the off indicator will light and
stay lit to remind you that the airbag is off.
Refer to “Passenger Airbag Status Indica-
tor” in “Warning Lights, Gages, and Indica-
tors” in the “Instrument Panel” section.
If a child restraint has been installed and
the on indicator is lit, turn the vehicle off.
Remove the child restraint from the vehicle
and reinstall the child restraint following the
child restraint manufacturer’s directions
and refer to “Securing a Child Restraint in
the Right Front Seat Position” in this sec-
tion.
If, after reinstalling the child restraint and
restarting the vehicle, the on indicator is
still lit, check to make sure that the vehi-
cle’s seatback is not pressing the child
restraint into the seat cushion. If this hap-
pens, slightly recline the vehicle’s seatback
and adjust the seat cushion if possible.
Also make sure the child restraint is not
trapped under the vehicle head restraint. If
this happens, adjust the head restraint.
Refer to “Head Restraints” in this section.
Remove any additional material from the
seat such as blankets, cushions, seat cov-
ers, seat heters, or seat massagers before
reinstalling or securing the child restraint.
If the on indicator is still lit, secure the child
in the child restraint in a rear seat position
in the vehicle, and check with your dealer.
If no rear seat is available, do not install a
child restraint in this vehicle, and check
with your dealer.
The passenger sensing system is
designed to enable (may inflate) the right
front passenger’s frontal airbag anytime
the system senses that a person of adult
size is sitting properly in the right front pas-
senger’s seat. When the passenger sens-
ing system has allowed the airbag to be
enabled, the on indicator will light and stay
lit to remind you that the airbag is active.
For some children who have outgrown
child restraints and for very small adults,
the passenger sensing system may or may
not turn off the right front passenger’s fron-
WARNING
A child in a rear-facing child restraint
can be seriously injured or killed if
the right front passenger’s airbag
inflates. This is because the back of
the rear-facing child restraint would
be very close to the inflating airbag.
Even though the passenger sensing
system is designed to turn off the
right front passenger’s frontal airbag
if the system detects a rear-facing
child restraint, no system is fail-safe,
and no one can guarantee that an air-
bag will not deploy under some
unusual circumstance, even though it
is turned off. We recommend that
rear-facing child restraints be
secured in a rear seat, even if the air-
bag is off.
If you secure a forward-facing child
restraint in the right front seat,
always move the front passenger
seat as far back as it will go. It is bet-
ter to secure the child restraint in a
rear seat.
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