child restraint CADILLAC SEVILLE 1997 4.G Owners Manual

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Here you'll find information about the seats in your Cadillac \
and how to use your safety belts properly. You can also
learn about some things you should not do with air bags and safety belts.
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Seats and Seat Controls
Safety Belts: They're for Everyone
Here Are Questions Many People
Ask About
Safety Belts
-- and the Answers
1-12 How to Wear Safety Belts Properly
1-12 Driver Position
1-20 Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy
1-21 Right Front Passenger Position 1-2
1 Supplemental Inflatable
Restraint (SIR) System 1-27 Rear Seat Passengers
1-30 Center Passenger Position
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1 Children
1-33 Child Restraints
1-40 Larger Children 1-43 Safety Belt Extender
' 1-43 Checking Your Restraint Systems
1-43 Replackg Restraint System Parts
After
a Crash

Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine This part is only for people of adult size.
Be aware that there are special things
to know mout safety
belts and children.
And there are different rules for smaller
children and babies.
If a child will be riding in your
Cadillac,
see the part of this manual called “Children.”
Follow those rules for everyone’s protection.
First, you’ll want to know which restraint systems your
vehicle has.
We’ll start with
the driver position.
This
part describes the driver’s restraint system.
The driver has
a lap-shoulder belt. Here’s how to wear
it properly.
1. Close and lock the door.
2. Adjust the seat (to see how, see “Seats” in the Index)
so YOU can sit up straight.
3.
4.
Pick up the latch plate and pull the belt across you.
Don’t let
it get twisted.
Push the latch plate into the buckle until it clicks.
Pull up on the latch plate to make sure it
is secure. If
the belt isn’t long enough, see “Safety Belt
Extender” at the end
of this section.
Make sure
the release button on the buckle is
positioned so you would be able
to unbuckle the
safety belt quickly
if you ever had to.

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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.
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. No172r put a rear-facing
child restraint
in the front passenger seat. Here's why:
A CAUTION:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured
if tlw right tronf passenger's air
bag inflates.
This is ki~LISt~ thc hit(?li of a
rear-facing
child restraint would Iw \.cry close to
the inflating air hag. illways secure a mar-facing
child restraint
in tlzc rear scat.
YOU may, however, N~CCII'C a forn.itr(l-f'acing child
restraint in the right
front seat. 12ciiwc. you secure
a forward-facing
child restraint, always move the
front passenger seat as
Par back as it will go. Or,
secure the child restraint in the rear seat.
Wherever you install it. be sure to S~CLII'C 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.

Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine If your child restraint has a top strap, your dealer can
obtain
a kit with anchor hardware and installation
instructions specifically designed for this vehicle. The
dealer can then install the anchor for you. In Canada,
this work will
be done for you free of charge. Or, you
may install the anchor yourself using the instructions
provided in the kit.
If your child restraint has a top strap, it should be anchored. If
you need to have an anchor installed, you can ask your
Cadillac dealer
to put it in €or you. If you want to install an
anchor yourself,
your dealer can tell you how to do it.
Canadian
law requires that child restraints have a top
strap, and that the strap be anchored.
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.
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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.
4. Buckle the belt. Make sure the release button 1s
positioned so you would be able to unbuckle the
safety belt quickly if you eves had to.
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.

Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 5. To tighten the belt, pull up on the shoulder belt while
you
push down on the child restraint.
6. Push and pull the child restraint in different
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
€or an adult
or larger child passenger. directions to
be sure it
is secure.
Securing a Chi1 Restraint in the
Rear Seat Position
You’ll be using the lap belt.
See the earlier part about the top strap if the child
restraint has one.

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2.
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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
€or 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.
5.
6.
7.
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.
To tighten the belt, pull its free end while you push
down on the child restraint.
Push and pull the child restraint in different
directions
to be sure 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.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 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.
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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. 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.
Your
vehicle has a right front passenger air bag.
Never
put a rear-facing child restraint in this seat. Here’s why:
A CAUTION:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured if the right front passenger’s air
bag inflates. This is because the back
of a
rear-facing child restraint would be very close to
the inflating air bag. Always secure a rear-facing
child restraint in the rear seat.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine 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
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.
directions to
be sure it is secure. 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.

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Accident statistics show that children are safer if they
are restrained in the rear seat. But they need
to use the
safety belts properly.
e Children who aren’t buckled up can be thrown out in
Children who aren’t buckled up can strike other
a crash.
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A CAUTION:
Never do this.
Here two children are 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.
@’ 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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