Child Safety Seats developed to avoid injury in a frontal impact. Warning: Do not allow a baby or infant to be held on a lap. All children should be restrained in an appropriate child safety seat at all times. Warning: To ensure children are safely seated, follow all instructions provided in this document and by the manufacturer of the child safety seat. Warning: Children should ride in a rear facing child safety seat using the seat‡s integrated 5-point harness for as long as possible. Testing a Child Safety Seat Warning: Do not use seat belt extenders on a seat belt that is being used to install Before seating a child, always make sure the a child safety seat or booster seat. child safety seat is not loose: Warning: When seating larger children, 1. Hold the child safety seat by the belt path make sure the child's head is supported and try to slide the safety seat from side and the child‡s seat belt is properly to side and front to back. adjusted and fastened. The shoulder 2. If the seat moves more than one inch portion of the belt must be away from the (2.5 cm), it is too loose. Tighten the belt or face and neck, and the lap portion must reconnect the LATCH retained child safety not be over the stomach. seat. Warning: Never attach two child safety 3. If you are unable to reduce slack, try a seats to one anchor point. In a collision, different seat location or try another child one anchor point may be incapable of safety seat. securing both seats. Warning: Child safety seat anchors are Child Safety Seat Warnings designed to withstand only those loads imposed by a correctly fitted child safety Warning: Extreme hazard! Do not seat a seat. Under no circumstances are they to child on the front passenger seat even if be used for adult seat belts, harnesses, or you are using a child safety seat. This seat for attaching other items or equipment to has an airbag in front of it. Although this the vehicle. airbag is disabled when Model X detects Warning: Always check harnesses and a lightweight passenger, do not rely on tether straps for damage and wear. technology to protect your child. Warning: Child safety seats are designed Warning: Never leave a child unattended, to be secured in vehicle seats by lap belts even if the child is secured in a child or the lap belt portion of a lap-shoulder safety seat. belt. A child could be endangered in a Warning: Never use a child safety seat crash if a child safety seat is not properly that has been involved in a collision. Have secured in the vehicle. the seat inspected or replaced as Warning: According to collision statistics, described in the child safety seat children are safer when properly manufacturer‡s instructions. restrained in the rear seating positions than in the front seating positions. Warning: Do not use a forward facing child safety seat until your child weighs over 20 lbs (9 kg) and can sit independently. Up to the age of two, a child's spine and neck are not sufficiently 40 Model X Owner's Manual