PONTIAC GRAND PRIX 2003 Workshop Manual

3. 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.
4. Pull the rest of the shoulder belt all the way out of
the retractor to set the lock.
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5. To tighten the belt, feed the shoulder belt back
into the retractor while you push down on the
child restraint. If you’re using a forward-facing child
restraint, you may find
it helpful to use your
knee
to push down on the child restraint as you
tighten the belt.
directions to be sure it is secure.
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 for an
adult or larger child passenger.
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Securing a Child Restraint in a
Center Rear Seat Position
If your child restraint is equipped with the LATCH
system, see Lower Anchorages and Top Tethers for
Children (LATCH System) on page
1-4 I.
You’ll be using the lap belt.
Be sure to follow the instructions that came with the
child restraint. Secure the child restraint when and
as the instructions say.
See Top Strap on page
1-39 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.
3. Run the vehicle’s safety belt through or around the
restraint. The child restraint instructions will show
you how.
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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 its free end while you push
down on the chiid restraint.
if you're using a
forward-facing child restraint, you may find it helpful
to use your knee to push the child restraint
as
you tighten the belt.
directions to be sure it is secure.
6. Push and pull the child restraint in different
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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Securing a Child Restraint in the Right Front Seat Position
Your vehicle has a right front passenger air bag. Never
t a rear facing child restraint in this seat. Here’s why:
I A CAUTION:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed
if the right front
passenger’s air bag inflates. This
is because
the back of the rear-facing child restraint
would be very close to the inflating air bag.
Always secure
a rear-facing child restraint in
a rear seat.
Although a rear seat is a safer place, you can secure a
forward-facing child restraint in the right front seat.
You’ll be using the lap-shoulder belt. See the earlier part
about the Top Strap on page
7-39, if the child restraint
has one. Be sure to follow the instructions that came
with the child restraint. Secure the child in the child
restraint when and as the instructions say.
1. Because your vehicle has a right front passenger’s
air bag, always move the seat as far back as it will
go before securing a forward-facing child restraint.
See Manual Seats on page
1-2.
2. Put the restraint on the seat.
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.
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6. To tighten the belt, feed the shoulder belt back into
the retractor while you push down on the child
restraint. You may find it helpful to use your knee to
push down on the child restraint as you tighten
the belt.
7. 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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Supplemental Restraint
System
(SRS)
This part explains the Supplemental Restraint
System (SRS) or air bag system.
Your vehicle has air bags
- one air bag for the driver
and another air bag for the right front passenger.
Frontal air bags are designed
to help reduce the risk of
injury from the force of an inflating air bag.
But these
air bags must inflate very quickly to do their job
and comply with federal regulations.
Here are the most important things to know about the
air bag system:
You can be severely injured or killed in a crash
if you aren’t wearing your safety belt - even if
you have air bags. Wearing your safety belt
during a crash helps reduce your chance of hitting things inside the vehicle or being
ejected from
it. Air bags are designed to work
with safety belts, but don’t replace them.
CAUTION: (Continued) Air bags are designed to deploy only
in
moderate to severe frontal and near frontal
crashes.They aren’t designed to inflate at all
in
rollover, rear or low-speed frontal crashes,
or
in many side crashes. And, for some
unrestrained occupants, air bags may provide
less protection
in frontal crashes than more
forceful air bags have provided
in the past.
Everyone in your vehicle should wear a safety
belt properly
- whether or not there’s an air
bag for that person.
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r bags inflate with great force, faster than
the blink of an eye. If you’re too close to an
inflating air bag, as you would be if you were
leaning forward,
it could seriously injure you.
Safety belts help keep you
in position before
and during a crash. Always wear your safety
belt, even with air bags. The driver should sit
as far back as possible while
still maintaining
control
of the vehicle.
I
Anyone who is up against, or very close to,
any air bag when
it inflates can be seriously
injured or killed. Air bags plus lap-shoulder
belts offer the best protection for adults, but not for young children and infants. Neither
the
vehicle’s safety belt system nor its air bag
system
is designedfor them. Young children
and infants need the protection that a child restraint system can provide. Always secure
children properly in your vehicle.
To read how,
see the parts of this manual called “Older
Children” and “Infants and Young Children”.
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I SRS AIR BAG
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There is a air bag readiness light on the instrument
panel, which shows
SRS AIR BAG or the air bag
symbol.
The system checks the air bag electrical system for
malfunctions. The light tells you
if there is an electrical
problem. See Air Bag Readiness Light
on page 3-26
for more information.
Where Are the Air Bags?
The driver’s air bag is in the middle of the steering
wheel.
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