child seat BUICK CENTURY 1996 Owners Manual

Child Restraints
Be sure the child restraint is designed to be used in a
vehicle. If it is, it will have
a label saying that it meets
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
Then
follow the instructions for the restraint. You may
find these instructions on the restraint itself or
in a
booklet, or both. These restraints use the belt system in
your vehicle, but the child also has to be secured within
the restraint to help reduce the chance of personal injury.
The instructions that come with the infant or child
restraint will show you how to
do that.
Where to Put the Restraint
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they
are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat. We at
General Motors therefore recommend that you put your
child restraint in the rear seat unless the child is an
infant and you’re the only adult in the vehicle. In that
case, you might want to secure the restraint in the front
seat where you can keep
an eye on the baby.
Wherever you install it, be sure to secure the child
restraint properly.
Keep in mind that an unsecured child restraint can move
around in a collision or sudden stop and injure people in
the vehicle. Be sure to properly secure any child
restraint in your vehicle
-- even when no child is in it.
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 Buick dealer to put it in for you. If you
want
to install an anchor yourself, your dealer can tell
you how to do it.
If you want to use a child restraint with a top strap in the
second seat of a station wagon, have your dealer install a
combination anchor-tether belt to which the top strap
can be hooked.
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For cars first sold in Canada, child restraints with a top
strap must be anchored according to Canadian law.
Your dealer 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 dealer.
The hardware and installation instructions were
specifically designed for this vehicle.
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 adjust
the belt if needed.
If the shoulder belt goes in front of the child’s face or
neck, put it behind the child restraint.
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Securing a Child Restraint in a Center
Seat Position
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You'll be using the lap belt.
See the earlier part about the top strap
if the child
restraint has
one.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Make the belt as long as possible by tilting the latch
plate and pulling it along the belt.
Put the restraint on the seat. Follow
the instructions
for the child restraint.
Secure the child in the child restraint
as the
instructions say.
Run the vehicle's safety belt through or around the
restraint. The child restraint instructions will show
you how.
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ring a Child Restraint in the Right
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Seat PC -tic
Was your two-door Buick first sold, when new, in
Canada? (If it was, a sticker on the driver’s door will say
“conforms to all applicable Canada motor vehicle
. . .
etc.) If so, then this “Securing a Child Restraint in the
Right Front Seat Position (2-Door Mode1.s)” part doesn’t
apply to your vehicle.
To learn how to secure a child
restraint
in the right front seat, read the Canadian
Owner’s Manual Safety Belt Supplement. It comes with
every new Century first sold in Canada.
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To use a child restraint here, you will need a special
infantkhild seat attaching belt and the hardware that
goes with it. See the earlier part about the
top strap if the
child restraint has one.
Your dealer can order the belt and attaching hardware
and install the hardware for
you. It’s free. The special
belt is
GM Part No. 12340286. Your dealer can find the
part number for the correct attaching hardware in the
accessory section
of the GM Parts Catalog.
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A CAUTION:
Don’t use the speciaI infantlchild seat attaching
hardware in another vehicle.
If you do, it may not
work well and the child may not be protected
properly in
a crash. The special hardware is for
your vehicle only.
Also, don’t use the special belt for anything but
securing a child restraint in the right front seat.
If an adult or older child uses it, the belt won’t
provide protection and may even increase injury
in a crash.
Once the special hardware is installed, please follow the
instructions
with it and these steps: 1. Unbuckle the automatic lap-shoulder belt by
pushing the button on the buckle. It will stay on
the door, ready to be rebuckled
for use by adults or
older children.
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4. You can make the belt longer by tilting the buckle
5. Put the restraint on the seat. Follow the instructions
and pulling
it along the belt.
for the child restraint.
6. Secure the child in the child restraint as the
instructions say.
The child restraint instructions will show you how.
7. Run the belt through or around the child restraint.
8. Put the hook on the free end through the slot in the
latch plate.
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9.
10.
To make it tight, pull the belt while you push down
on the child restraint. If the belt won’t stay tight,
switch it end for end.
Push and pull the child restraint in different directions to
be sure it is secure.
Removing the InfantlChild Seat Restraint
1. Push the button on the safety belt buckle and remove
the special latch plate. Leave the latch plate on
the
special belt.
2. Push the spring on the hook near the door and
remove the special belt.
3. Put the belt away in a safe place in your vehicle, so it
won’t
fly around in a crash and injure someone.
4. Remember to reattach the automatic belt again,
once the child restraint is removed. Be sure
it
isn’t twisted.
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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 children 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 a crash.
0 Children who aren’t buckled up can strike other
people who are.
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Never do this.
Here two children
me wearing the same belt. The
belt can’t properly spread the impact
forces. In a
crash, the two children can be crushed together
and seriously injured.
A belt must be used by
only one person at a time.
e.’ 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?
A: 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
so small that the shoulder belt is still very
close to the child’s face 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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Never do this.
Here
a child is sitting in a seat that has a
lap-shoulder belt, but the shoulder part
is behind
the child.
If the child wears the belt in this way, in
a crash the child might slide under the belt. The
belt’s force would ‘then be applied right
on the
child’s abdomen. That could cause serious or
fatal injuries.
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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