child restraint Acura MDX 2004 Owner's Manual

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This section gives you important
inf ormation about how to protect
yourself and your passengers. It
shows you how to use seat belts
properly. It explains how your airbag
work, and it tells you how to properly
restrain inf ants and children in your
vehicle.
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Important Safety Precautions . 6
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Your Vehicle’s Saf ety Features . 7
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Seat Belts .8
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Airbags .9
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Protecting Adults and Teens . 11
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1. Close and Lock the Doors . 11
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2. Adjust the Front Seats . 11
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3. Adjust the Seat-Backs . 12
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4. Adjust the Head Restraints . 13
5. Fasten and Position the Seat .....................................
Belts .14
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6. Adjust the Steering Wheel . 16
7. Maintain a Proper Sitting ................................
Position .16
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Advice f or Pregnant Women . 17
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Additional Safety Precautions . 17Additional Inf ormation About Your
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Seat Belts .19
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Seat Belt System Components . 19
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Lap/Shoulder Belt .19
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Seat Belt Maintenance . 21
Additional Inf ormation About Your .....................................
Airbags .22
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Airbag System Components . 22
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Advanced Airbag .25
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How Your Side Airbags Work . 27
How Your Side Curtain Airbag .........................................
Work .28
How the SRS Indicator Light .......................................
Works .28
How The Side Airbag Of f ......................
Indicator Works .29
How the Passenger Airbag ...............
Of f indicator Works . 30
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Airbag Service .31
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Additional Safety Precautions . 32
Protecting Children General ................................
Guidelines .33
All Children Must Be ...............................
Restrained .33 All Children Should Sit in a Back
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Seat .34
The Passenger’s Front Airbag Can Pose Serious Risks to ...............................
Children .34
If You Must Drive with Several ...................................
Children .36
If a Child Requires Close ..................................
Attention .36
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Additional Safety Precautions . 36
Protecting inf ants and .........................
Small Children .38
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Protecting Inf ants .38
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Protecting Small Children . 39
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Selecting a Child Seat .40
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Installing a Child Seat .41
Installing a Child Seat with .....................................
LATCH .42
Installing a Child Seat with ...............
a Lap/Shoulder Belt . 44
Installing a Child Seat with ...................................
a Tether .45
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Protecting Larger Children . 47
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Carbon Monoxide Hazard . 51
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Saf ety Labels .52
Automatic Seat Belt Tensioners
How Your Front Airbags Work
Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Driver and Passenger Saf ety5

The seat belts in all seating positions
except the driver’s have an additional
locking mechanism that must be
activated to secure a child seat (see
page ).
If the shoulder part of the belt is
pulled all the way out, the locking
mechanism will activate. The belt
will retract, but it will not allow the
passenger to move f reely.
To deactivate the locking
mechanism, unlatch the buckle and
let the seat belt f ully retract. To
ref asten the belt, pull it out only as
f ar as needed.For added protection, the f ront seat
belts are equipped with automatic
seat belt tensioners. When activated,
the tensioners immediately tighten
the belts to help hold the driver and
a f ront passenger in place.When the tensioners are activated,
the seat belts will remain tight until
they are unbuckled in the normal
manner. The tensioners are designed to
activate in any collision severe
enough to cause a f ront, side, or side
curtainairbagtoinflate.
However, the tensioners can be
activated during a collision in which
there is no airbag deployment. In
this case, the airbags would not be
needed, but the additional restraint
provided by the tensioners could be
helpf ul.
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A utomatic Seat Belt T ensioners
Additional Inf ormation About Your Seat Belts
Driver and Passenger Saf ety20

Make sure the strap is not twisted,
then tighten the strap according to
the child seat maker’s instruction.
Push and pull the child seat
f orward and f rom side to side to
verif y that it is secure.
Whatever type you have, f ollow
the child seat maker’s instructions
f or adjusting or tightening the f it.
Other LATCH-compatible seats have
a f lexible-type connection as shown
above.
Route the tether strap through the
legs of the head restraint, then
attach the hook to the anchorage
point on the back of the seat back.6.
4. 5.7.
Installing a Child Seat
Driver and Passenger Saf ety43
FLEXIBLE TYPE

Each second row seat has a tether
anchorage point behind the seat
back.Af ter securing the child seat in the
desired position (see page ),
route the tether strap over the top
of the seat-back and between the
head restraint legs.Attach the tether strap hook to the
anchor as shown above, then
tighten the strap according to the
child seat maker’s instructions.
Make sure the strap is not twisted.
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Driver and Passenger Saf ety
Installing a Child Seat
Second Row Inst allat ion
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TETHER ANCHORAGE POINT