D-4 Knowing Your Vehicle Belts
Review your vehicle’s owner manual for vehicle seat belt use with child restraints. This is your best source for information concerning your vehicle.
Not all vehicle belts will work with this child restraint. This child restraint must be tightly locked in place at all times, during travel. You must determine if your vehicles belts are compatible with this child restraint.
Vehicle Belts
• Automatic/Passive vehicle seat belts
You MUST have a vehicle lap belt to install any child restraint. An automatic (passive) shoulder vehicle belt may or may not have a separate vehicle lap belt. Consult your vehicle owner’s manual.
• Vehicle belts in center of the door or side panel
You must move the child restraint to another seating location. Consult your vehicle owner’s manual.
• Vehicle belts that are in front of the seat bight
You may need to move the child restraint to another seating location. Consult your vehicle owner’s manual.
•ELR (Emergency Locking Retractor) vehicle belts
These lap and shoulder vehicle belts only lock in a sudden stop or crash, and do not properly secure a child restraint
alone. Consult your vehicle owner’s manual.
To learn if you have this type of vehicle belt, gently pull the vehicle belt all the way out of the retractor (spool), let it
return several inches, then pull on it again. If it moves freely, it is an ELR vehicle belt. If it is locked and will not allow any more vehicle belt to come out, it is a switchable retractor.
ELR
• Switchable retractor
These vehicle belts switch from ELR to ALR (Automatic Locking Retractor). You must have the vehicle belts in the locking mode to use them. Follow the instructions in the installation sections.
• ALR (Automatic Locking Retractor)
These vehicle belts lock after pulling the webbing out and letting the vehicle belt go back into the retractor an inch or two. Follow the instructions in the installation sections.
Vehicle Latch Plates
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Locking | Grasp the tongue portion of |
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the latch plate (the part that |
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Latch |
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goes inside the buckle) and |
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Plate |
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pull straight out, inline with |
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Sliding |
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latch plate does not slide |
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Latch | up and down the vehicle |
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have an ELR retractor, you MUST use a locking clip to install the |
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child restraint. You may not need to use the locking clip with a |
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