seats CHEVROLET CAMARO 1994 4.G User Guide

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Q: What’s wrong with this?
A: The belt is buckled in the wrong
place.
A CAUTION:
You can be seriously injured if your
belt is buckled in the wrong place
like this. In a crash, the belt would go
up over your abdomen. The belt
forces would be there, not at the pel-
vic bones. This could cause serious
internal injuries. Always buckle your
belt into the buckle nearest you.
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Q: What’s wrong with this?
A: The shoulder belt is worn under the
arm. It should be worn over the
shoulder at
all times.
A CAUTION: I
wear the shoulder belt under your
arm. In a crash, your body would
move too far forward, which would
increase the chance of head and neck
injury. Also, the belt wuuld apply too
much force to the ribs, which aren’t
as strong as shoulder bones. You
could also severely injure internal
organs
like your liver or spleen.
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This vehicle has AIR BAGS for front occupants.
A CAUTION: YOU NEED YOUR SAFETY BELT, EVEN WITH AN AIR BAG.
AND HERE’S WHY:
Air bags are not designed to inflate in rollovers or in rear, side or low-speed frontal crashes.
Air bags inflate with great force, faster than the blink of an eye.
If you’re too close to an inflating
air bag, it could seriously injure you. Safety belts help keep\
you in position for air bag inflation
in a crash.
. An inflating air bag can seriously injure small children. Follow t\
he instructions on the passenger
safety belt Caution label.
REGULAR MAINTENANCE OF THE AIR BAG SYSTEM IS NOT REQUIRED. If the
air bag readiness light comes on while you are driving, or doesn’t come on when you first start
your vehicle, see your dealer for service.
PRINTED IN U.5.A See your Owner’s Manual for more information. PART NO. C20-30-355
Supplemental lnfhtable
Restraint System (Air Bags)
This section explains the Supplemental
Inflatable Restraint
(SIR), or “air bag,”
system.
Your Chevrolet has an air bag
for both the driver
and the right-front
passenger. Here
are the most important things to
know:
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The right-front passenger’s air bag is
located in the instrument panel on the
passenger’s side.
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When is an air bag expected to inflate?
The air bag is designed to inflate in
moderate to severe frontal or near-frontal
crashes. The air bag will only inflate if the
velocity of the impact is above the
designed threshold level. When impacting
straight into a wall that does not move or
deform, the threshold level for most
GM
vehicles is between 9 and 15 mph (14 and
23 km/h). However, this velocity
threshold depends on the vehicle design
and may be several miles-per-hour faster
or slower. In addition, this threshold
velocity will be considerably higher if the
vehicle strikes an object such as a parked
car which will move and deform
on
impact. The air bag is also not designed to
inflate in rollovers, side. impacts, or rear
impacts where the inflation would provide
no occupant protection benefit.
It is possible that in a crash, only one of
the two air bags in your Camaro will
deploy. This is rare, but can happen in a
crash just severe enough to make an air
bag inflate. In
any particular crash, the determination
of whether the
air bag should have
inflated cannot be based solely on the
level of damage on the vehicle@).
Inflation is determined by the angle of the
impact and the vehicle’s deceleration, of
which vehicle damage is only one
indication. Repair cost is not a good
indicator of whether an air bag should
have deployed.
What makes an air bag inflate?
In a frontal or near-frontal impact of
sufficient severity, the air bag sensing
system detects that the vehicle is suddenly
stopping as a result of a crash. The
sensing sytem triggers a chemical reaction
of the sodium azide sealed in the inflator,
The reaction produces nitrogen gas,
which inflates a cloth bag. The inflator,
cloth bag, and related hardware ‘are
all
part of the air bag inflator modules
packed inside the steering wheel and in
the instrument panel in front of the
passenger.
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Is the smoke from an air bag inflation
harmful?
The particles emitted during air bag
inflation are not harmful to most people.
Some people with respiratory ailments
may experience difficulty breathing if
they stay in the vehicle with the windows
closed after air bag inflation.
So, if your
air bag inflates, you
and any passengers
should exit the vehicle if and when it is
safe to do
so. If you or your passengers
can’t get out
of the vehicle, try to get
fresh air by opening
a window, turning on
the fan, or opening a door.
Servicing Your Air Bag-Equipped
Chevrolet
Air bags affect how your Chevrolet
should be serviced. There are parts of the
air bag system in several places around
your vehicle. You don’t want the system
to inflate while someone is working on
your vehicle. Your Chevrolet dealer and
the
1994 Camaro Service Manual have
information about servicing your vehicle
and the air bag system. The air bag
system does not need regular
maintenance.
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Pregnancy
Safety belts work for everyone, including
pregnant women. Like all occupants, they
are more likely to be seriously injured if
they don’t wear safety belts.
A pregnant woman should wear a
lap-shoulder belt, and the lap portion
should be worn as low as possible
rhroughout the pregnancy.
The best way to protect the fetus is to
protect the mother. When a safety belt
is
worn properly, it’s more likely that the
fetus won’t be
hurt in a crash. For
pregnant women, as for anyone, the key
to making safety belts effective
is wearing
them properly.
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Passenger Positions
Right Front Passenger Position
The right front passenger’s safety belt
works the same way as the driver’s safety
belt. See “Driver Position,” earlier
in this
part.
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t’s very important for rear seat
tassengers to buckle up! Accident
tatistics show that unbelted people in the
ear seat are hurt more often in crashes
han those who are wearing safety belts.
:ear passengers who aren’t safety belted
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be thrown out of the vehicle in a
rash. And they can strike others
in the
,chicle who are wearing safety belts.
.ap-Shoulder Belt
‘he rear seats have lap-shoulder belts.
lere’s how to wear one properly.
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1. Pick up the latch plate and pull the
belt across
you. Don’t let it get
twisted.
2. Push the latch plate into the buckle
until it clicks.
If the belt stops before it reaches the
buckle,
tilt the latch plate and keep
pulling until you can buckle it.
Pull up
on the latch plate to make sure
it is secure.
If the belt is not 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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0 To unlatch the belt, just push the
button on the buckle.
Children
Everyone in a vehicle needs protection!
That includes infants and all children
smaller than adult size. In fact, the law
in
every state in the United States and in
every Canadian province
says children up
to some age must be restrained while in a
vehicle.
Smaller Children and Babies
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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 Chevrolet 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 have a convertible, don’t use a
restraint that has a top strap
in your
vehicle because the top strap anchor
cannot be installed properly.
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4. 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.
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 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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Until you have this clip, secure a child
restraint only
in the rear seat. See the
earlier section about securing a child
restraint in the rear seat. Once you have
the clip, follow these instructions:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Because the vehicle has a right-front
passenger's air bag, always move the
seat as far back as
it will go before
securing a front-facing child restraint.
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.
6.
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.
Then thread both lap and shoulder belt portions through the locking clip.
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A. Lap Belt Portion
B. Latch Plate
C. Buckle
D. Shoulder Belt Portion
E. Locking Clip
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