CHEVROLET S10 1998 Workshop Manual

Top Strap
If your child restmint:has. a ;top strap, it should.be.
.anchored. If you need to. have an .anchor installed, you
-can ask your GM .dealer to put it in: for YOU, If you want
to install an anchor yourself7 your -dealer -can. tell y~u
how to do it.
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Jump 'Seats (Extended. Cab)
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Securing a Child Restraint in the Right
Front Seat. Position
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A child in a. rear-facing child restraint can be.
seriously injure.d
or killed if the right front
passenger’s air
bag inflates, even. though your
vehicle has reduced-force.fronta1 air bags. This
is
because the back of the rearfacing chiZd
restraint would be very close to the inflating air
bag. Be sure to-turn off the air bag before using a
rear-facingkhild restraint in the right front seat
positian. E’a forward-facing child restraint is
suitable
for your child, always move the-
passenger seat
as far back as it will go.
To turn sff the. right fi-ont passenger’s airbag,. insert
your ignition key into the switch, push in, .md move the
switch to AIR BAG OFF.
The AIR BAG OFF light will corne on to let you know
that the right front pass-enger’s air bag: is off: The right
front passenger’s air bag. win remain off until you turn- it
back
on again, and the AIR BAG OFF light will stay on
to remind you that the air bag is off.
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If the air bag
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r comes on when
you have turned off the air: bag, it means that
something may be wrong with the air bag system.
The right
front passenger’s air bag. could inflate
even
though the switch is -off. I% this ever
happens, don’t secure a $ear-facing child
restraint
in your vehicle until you have your
v.ehicte-.serviced.
If the shoulder belt goes in front of the child’s face or
neck, put it behind the child restraiot.
4. Buckle the, belt. Make sure the felease buttoh is
positioned so: you .woul&be -able-. to unbuck1e.th.e
safely belt quickly ifflyou ever hadita
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5. Pull the:rest of the shoulder belt ala the way out uf
the, retractor to. set .the lock.
6. To tighten the belt, fed the shoulder bekback into.
the retractor while you push down on the chld
restraint.
If :you’re using a forward-facing .child
restraint,
you may find it helpful t-0 use.yo.& knee
t6 push do-wn on the child restraint as you tighten
the belt.
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7. Push atrd pull the child restraint in different
.&ec$ions to be sure it is:sec.u.re.
To remove-.the.child restraint, just unbuckle the vehicle%
safety
belt and let it go back. all the way. The safety belt
will
move. free1y;again and be ready towork.for an adult
or larger child passenger.
'If you. were using. a -rear-facing- childrestraint, turn on
the
right front paisenger 's. air bag when y~u fernow the;
rear-facing child-res$ainrt from. the-vehkie.
To turn the air bag .on. again, insert your ignition key
into the switch., push in, and muve the switch SO the
ON position.
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Larger Children
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If the ri,ght front p.assenger”s :air bag is turned
off, the person sitting there won? have. the. extra
protection of.-an
air bag. In a crash, the air bag
wouldn’t
be able to inflate and .help protect the
persolk sitting there. Make sure the air bag is-
turned
on unless you are using- a reapfacing child
restraint
in the right.front seat position.
Children who have outgrown ChirCSrestraints should
wear the vehicle’s safety beits.
Children who aren’t buckled up can be thrown out in
a crash.
Children who areri’t buckled uu cm ‘strike- other
people. who. are.
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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 chi1d: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 p.ortion of the belt
should be worn low and snug on the hips, just touching
the- child’s thighs. This applies beit force to. the child’s
pelvic bones in -a crash.
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