CHEVROLET S10 1994 2.G Owner's Guide

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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 throughout 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.
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.
When the shoulder belt is pulled out all the way, it will lock. If it does, let it
go back all the way and start again.
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Lap Belt
If your vehicle has a bench seat, someone can sit in the center position.
When you sit in a center seating
position, you have a
lap safety belt, which
has no retractor.
To
make the belt longer,
tilt the latch plate and
pull it along the belt.
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shorter, pull its free
end as shown until the
belt is snug.
Buckle, position and release it the same way
as the lap part of a
lap-shoulder belt.
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.
Rear Seat Passengers
(Extended
Cab Jump Seats)
Lap Belt
These are reserve seating positions equipped with lap belts only.
It’s very important for rear seat passengers to buckle up! Accident statistics
show that unbelted people in the rear seat are hurt more often in crashes
than those who are wearing safety belts.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Rear passengers who aren’t safety belted can be thrown out of the vehicle in
a crash. And they can strike others in the vehicle who are wearing safety
belts.
Each jump seat has a
lap belt with no
retractor.
To make the
belt longer, tilt the
latch plate a little and
pull the belt.
To make it shorter,
pull the belt as shown
until it is snug.
Buckle, position and release it the same way as the lap part of the driver’s
safety belt (see “Driver Position” in the Index). 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.
Don’t use child restraints on these seats. They won’t wor\
k properly.
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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 m\
ust be
restrained while
in a vehicle.
Smaller Children and Babies
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Be sure to 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.
The child restraint must be secured properly in the center (except
60/40
bench seat) or right front passenger seat. If you have a 60/40 split bench
seat, you must use the right front passenger seat.
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 nQ. 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 vehicl\
e dealer to
put it in for you.
If you want to install an anchor yourself, your dealer can
tell you how to do it.
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Position (Bench Seat
- Except 60/40 Bench Seat)
Don’t use child restraints in the center position of a 60140 bench seat.
When you secure
a child restraint in a center seating position, you’ll be
using the lap belt.
See the earlier section about the top strap
if the child restraint has one.
1. Make the belt as
long as possible
by tilting the
latch plate and
pulling
it along
the belt.
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.
4. Run the vehicle’s safety belt through or around the restraint. The child
restraint instructions will show you how.

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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.
7. Push and pull the child restraint in different directions to b\
e 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.
Jump Seats (Extended Cab)
Don’t use child restraints in these positions. The restraints\
won’t work
properly.
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Don’t use a child restraint in this position. The restraint won’t work
properly.
Securing a Child Restraint in the Right Front Seat
Position
You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See the earlier secti\
on about the top
strap if the child restraint has one.
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3. 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 c\
hild restraint
instructions will show you how.
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