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Child restraints, Getting started, Warning – Dodge 2011 Avenger - User Guide User Manual

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WARNING!

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• Do not drive your vehicle after the air bags have deployed. If you are involved

in another collision, the air bags will not be in place to protect you.

• After any collision, the vehicle should be taken to an authorized dealer

immediately.

CHILD RESTRAINTS

• Children 12 years and under should ride properly buckled up in a rear seat, if

available. According to crash statistics, children are safer when properly restrained
in the rear seats rather than in the front.

• Every state in the United States and all Canadian provinces require that small

children ride in proper restraint systems. This is the law, and you can be
prosecuted for ignoring it.

Installing The LATCH-Compatible Child Restraint System

• Your vehicle's second row passenger seats are equipped with the child restraint

anchorage system called LATCH, which stands for Lower Anchors and Tether for
CHildren.

• Child seats with fixed lower attachments must be installed in the outboard

positions only. Child seats with flexible lower attachments can be used in all three
seating positions.

Never install LATCH-compatible child seats such that two seats share a common

lower anchorage. If you are installing LATCH-compatible child restraints in
adjacent rear seating positions, you can use either the lower anchors or the vehicle
seat belt in the outboard seating position, but the center seating position must use
the vehicle seat belt. Always use the top tether anchorage with a forward facing
child seat.

• The rear seat lower anchorages are

round bars, located at the rear of the
seat cushion where it meets the
seatback. They are just visible when
you lean into the rear seat to install the
child restraint. You will easily feel
them if you run your finger along the
intersection of the seatback and seat
cushion surfaces.

• In addition, there are tether strap anchorages behind each rear seating position

located in the panel between the rear seatback and the rear window. These tether
strap anchorages are under a plastic cover.

• Loosen the child seat adjusters on the lower straps and tether straps so that you

can attach the hook or connector to the lower and tether anchorages more easily.

GETTING STARTED

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