OLDSMOBILE AURORA 1995 Service Manual

Top Strap
If your child restraint has a top strap, it should be
anchored.
If you need to have an anchor installed, you can ask
your Aurora retailer to put
it in for you. If you want to
install an anchor yourself, your retailer can tell you how
to do it.
For cars first sold
in Canada, child restraints with a top
strap must be anchored according
to Canadian Law.
Your retailer can obtain the hardware
kit and install it
for you, or you may install it yourself using the
instructions provided
in the kit.
Use the tether hardware kit available from the retailer.
The hardware and installation instructions were
specifically designed for this vehicle.
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Securing a Child Restraint in a Rear
Outside Seat Position
You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See the earlier part
about
the top strap if the child restraint has one.
1. Put the restraint on the seat. Follow the instructions
for the child restraint.
2. Secure the child in the child restraint as the
instructions
say.
3. Pick up the latch plate. and run the lap and shoulder
portions
of the vehicle’s safety belt through or
around the restraint. The child restraint instructions
will show
you how. Tilt the latch plate to ad-just the
belt
if needed.
If the shoulder belt goes in front of the child’s face or
neck,
put it behind the child restraint.
4. Buckle the belt. Make sure the release button is
positioned so you would be able to unbuckle the
safety belt quickly
if you eves had to.
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5. To tighten the belt, pull up on the shoulder belt while
you push down on the child restraint.
Securing a Child Restraint in the Center
Rear Seat Position
You'll be using the lap belt:
See the earlier part about
the top strap if the child
restraint has one.
6. Push and pull the child restraint in different
directions
to be sure it is secure.
To remove the child restraint, just unbuckle the vehicle's
safety belt and
let it go back all the way. The safety belt
will move freely again and
be ready to work for an adult
or larger child passenger.
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1. Make the belt as long as possible by tilting the latch
plate and pulling it along the belt. 4. Run the vehicle’s safety belt through or around the
restraint. The child restraint instructions will show
you how.
2. Put the restraint on the seat. Follow the instructions
for the child restraint.
3. Secure the child in the child restraint as the
instructions say.
5. Buckle the belt. Make sure the release button is
positioned so you would be able to unbuckle the
safety belt quickly if you ever had to.
6. To tighten the belt, pull its free end while you push
down on the child restraint.
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7. Push and pull the child restraint in different
directions
to be sure it is secure. If the child restraint
isn’t secure, turn the latch plate over and buckle
it
again. Then see if it is secure. If it isn’t, secure the
restraint
in a different place in the vehicle and
contact the child restraint maker for their advice
about how to attach the child restraint properly.
To remove the child restraint, just unbuckle the vehicle’s
safety belt. It
will be ready to work for an adult or larger
child passenger.
Securing a Child Restraint in the Right
Front Seat Position
Your vehicle has a right front passenger air bag. Never-
put a rear-facing child restraint in this seat. Here’s why:
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You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See the earlier part
about the top strap if the child restraint has one.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Because your vehicle has a right front passenger air
bag, always move the seat as far back as it will
go
before securing a forward-facing child restraint.
(See “Seats” in the Index.)
Put the restraint on the seat. Follow the instructions
for the child restraint.
Secure the child in the child restraint as the
instructions say.
Pick up the latch plate, and run the lap and shoulder
portions of the vehicle’s safety belt through or
around the restraint. The child restraint instructions
will show you how.
If the shoulder belt goes in front of the child’s face or
neck, put it behind the child restraint.
5. Buckle the belt.
Make sure the release button is positioned
so you
would be able to unbuckle the safety belt quickly
if
you ever had to.
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6. Pull the rest of the lap belt all the way out of the
retractor to set the lock.
7. To tighten the belt, feed the lap belt back into the
retractor while you push down on the child restraint.
8. Push and pull the child restraint in different
directions to be sure
it is secure.
To remove the child restraint, just unbuckle the vehicle’s
safety belt and let it go back all the way.
The safety belt will move freely again and be ready
to
work for an adult or larger child passenger.
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Larger Children Children who have outgrown child restraints should
wear the vehicle's safety belts.
If you have the choice, a child should sit next to a
window so the child can wear a lap-shoulder belt and
get the additional restraint a shoulder belt can provide.
Accident statistics show that cl-uldren are safer if they
are restrained in the rear seat. But they need to use the
safety belts properly.
0 Children who aren't buckled up can be thrown out in
0 Children who aren't buckled up can strike other
a
crash.
people who are.
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Q=
A:
What if a child is wearing a lap-shoulder belt,
but the child
is so small that the shoulder belt is
very close to the child's face or neck?
Move the child toward the center of the vehicle, but
be sure that the shoulder belt still is
on the child's
shoulder,
so that in a crash the child's upper body
would have the restraint that belts provide.
If the
child is sitting
in a rear seat outside position, see
"Rear Safety
Belt Comfort Guides" in the Index. If
the child is so small that the shoulder belt is still
very
close to the child's fxe or neck, you might
want to place the child
in the center seat position,
the one that has
only a lap belt.
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Wherever the child sits, the lap portion of the belt
should be worn low and snug on the hips, just touching
the child’s thighs. This applies belt force
to the child’s
pelvic bones
in a crash.
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