Owner's Manual

Accident statistics show that children are safer if they
are restrained in the rear, rather than the front seat.
General Motors, therefore, recommends that child
restraints be secured in a rear seat including an infant
riding in a rear-facing infant seat, a child riding in a
forward-facing child seat and an older child riding in a
booster seat. Never put a child in a rear-facing child
restraint in the right front passenger seat unless
your vehicle has the passenger sensing system and
the passenger air bag status indicator shows
off.
Never put a rear-facing child restraint in the right
front passenger seat unless the air bag is
off.
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.
CAUTION: (Continued)
Be sure the air bag is
off before using a
rear-facing child restraint
in the right front
seat position.
Even though the passenger sensing system
is
designed to turn off the passenger’s frontal
air bag,
if the system detects a rear-facing
child restraint, no system
is fail-safe, and no
one can guarantee that an air bag will not
deploy under some unusual circumstance,
even though
it is turned off. General Motors
therefore recommends that rear-facing child
restraints be secured in the rear seat whenever
possible, even
if the air bag is off.
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