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2007 Chevrolet Impala Owner Manual One thousand
| Seats and Restraint Systems ........................ | vii |
| Front end Seats .............................................. | 9 |
| Rear Seats ............................................. | sixteen |
| Safe Belts ............................................ | 20 |
| Child Restraints ...................................... | 43 |
| Airbag System ........................................ | 69 |
| Restraint System Cheque ......................... | 86 |
| Features and Controls ................................. | 89 |
| Keys ....................................................... | 91 |
| Doors and Locks .................................. | 100 |
| Windows ............................................... | 105 |
| Theft-Deterrent Systems ....................... | 107 |
| Starting and Operating Your Vehicle | ..... 111 |
| Mirrors .................................................. | 126 |
| OnStar® System ................................... | 128 |
| Universal Dwelling Remote Arrangement .......... | 132 |
| Storage Areas ...................................... | 142 |
| Sunroof ................................................ | 144 |
| Instrument Console ........................................ | 145 | |
| Musical instrument Console Overview ................... | 148 | |
| Climate Controls ................................... | 166 | |
| Warning Lights, Gages, and Indicators | .... | 172 |
| Driver Information Centre (DIC) ............ | 188 | |
| Audio System(south) ................................... | 213 | |
| Driving Your Vehicle .................................. | 247 | |
| Your Driving, the Road, and | ||
| Your Vehicle ..................................... | 248 | |
| Towing ................................................. | 284 | |
| Service and Appearance Care ................... | 295 | |
| Service ................................................. | 297 | |
| Fuel ...................................................... | 299 | |
| Checking Things Nether the Hood ......... | 306 | |
| Headlamp Aiming ................................. | 346 | |
| Bulb Replacement ................................ | 346 | |
| Windshield Wiper Blade Replacement | .... | 352 |
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| Tires ..................................................... | 354 |
| Advent Care .................................. | 390 |
| Vehicle Identification ............................. | 399 |
| Electrical Organisation .................................. | 400 |
| Capacities and Specifications ................ | 405 |
| Maintenance Schedule ............................... | 407 |
| Maintenance Schedule .......................... | 408 |
| Customer Assistance Data ............. | 427 |
| Customer Assistance and Information | ..... 428 |
| Reporting Rubber Defects ...................... | 446 |
| Index ........................................................... | 449 |
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General MOTORS, GM, the GM Emblem, CHEVROLET, the CHEVROLET Keepsake,
the IMPALA Emblem, and the name IMPALA are registered trademarks of Full general Motors Corporation.
This manual includes the latest information at the fourth dimension it was printed. We reserve the right to make changes after that fourth dimension without farther
discover. For vehicles first sold in Canada, substitute the name "General Motors of Canada Express"
for Chevrolet Motor Segmentation whenever it appears in this manual.
This transmission describes features that may be available in this model, but your vehicle may not accept all of them. For example, more than than one entertainment system may be offered or your vehicle may have been ordered without a front passenger or rear seats.
Keep this manual in the vehicle, so information technology will exist there if it is needed while you lot are on the road. If the vehicle is sold, leave this transmission in the vehicle.
Canadian Owners
A French language copy of this manual tin be obtained from your dealer or from:
Helm, Incorporated
P.O. Box 07130
Detroit, MI 48207
| Litho in United states of americaA. | © 2006 General Motors Corporation. All Rights Reserved. |
| Part No. 15863014 A First Press |
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How to Employ This Manual
Many people read the owner manual from get-go to stop when they first receive their new vehicle. If this is done, it can assist y'all larn about the features and controls for the vehicle. Pictures and words work together in the
possessor manual to explain things.
Index
A skillful place to quickly locate information about the vehicle is the Index in the dorsum of the manual. It is an alphabetical list of what is in the manual and the folio number where information technology can be found.
Condom Warnings and Symbols
There are a number of safety cautions in this book. Nosotros employ a box and the give-and-take CAUTION to tell about things that could injure you if you were to ignore the alarm.
{CAUTION:
These mean there is something that could hurt you or other people.
In the caution area, we tell you what the hazard is. Then we tell you lot what to do to help avoid or reduce the hazard. Please read these cautions. If you lot do not, you or others could be hurt.
You will also find a circle with a slash through it in this book. This safety symbol means "Exercise Not," "Do Not do this" or "Practise Not let this happen."
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Vehicle Damage Warnings
Also, in this transmission y'all volition find these notices:
Find: These mean there is something that could damage your vehicle.
A notice tells about something that tin can damage the vehicle. Many times, this damage would not be covered past your vehicle's warranty, and it could be costly. But the notice will tell what to do to assist avoid the impairment.
When y'all read other manuals, yous might encounter CAUTION and Find warnings in different colors or in unlike words.
There are likewise warning labels on the vehicle. They use the same words, CAUTION or NOTICE.
Vehicle Symbols
The vehicle has components and labels that use symbols instead of text. Symbols are shown along with the text describing the performance or data relating to a specific component, control, message, cuff, or indicator.
If you need help figuring out a specific name of a component, gage, or indicator, reference the following topics:
• Seats and Restraint Systems in Department ane
• Features and Controls in Section 2
• Musical instrument Console Overview in Department iii
• Climate Controls in Department three
• Alarm Lights, Gages, and Indicators in Department 3
• Audio Organization(southward) in Section iii
• Engine Compartment Overview in Section 5
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These are some examples of symbols that may be institute on the vehicle:
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Department 1 Seats and Restraint Systems
| Front Seats ..................................................... | ix |
| Manual Rider Seat ................................ | ix |
| Power Seats ............................................... | 10 |
| Manual Lumbar ........................................... | eleven |
| Heated Seats .............................................. | 11 |
| Reclining Seatbacks .................................... | 12 |
| Head Restraints .......................................... | 15 |
| Middle Seat ................................................ | sixteen |
| Rear Seats .................................................... | 16 |
| Divide Folding Rear Seat ............................... | 16 |
| Safety Belts .................................................. | 20 |
| Safety Belts: They Are for Everyone ........... | xx |
| Questions and Answers Nigh | |
| Safety Belts ............................................. | 24 |
| How to Wear Safety Belts Properly ............. | 25 |
| Driver Position ............................................. | 25 |
| Shoulder Chugalug Height Adjustment ................. | 34 |
| Safety Chugalug Utilise During Pregnancy .............. | 35 |
| Right Forepart Passenger Position ................... | 35 |
| Center Front Rider Position ................. | 36 |
| Rear Seat Passengers ................................ | 37 |
| Rear Safety Belt Comfort Guides ................ | 39 |
| Prophylactic Belt Pretensioners ............................ | 42 |
| Safety Chugalug Extender ................................... | 42 |
| Child Restraints ............................................ | 43 |
| Older Children ............................................. | 43 |
| Infants and Young Children ......................... | 46 |
| Child Restraint Systems .............................. | 50 |
| Where to Put the Restraint .......................... | 54 |
| Lower Anchors and Tethers for | |
| Children (LATCH) .................................... | 55 |
| Securing a Child Restraint in a | |
| Rear Seat Position ................................... | 62 |
| Securing a Child Restraint in the | |
| Center Front Seat Position ....................... | 64 |
| Securing a Child Restraint in the | |
| Right Front Seat Position ......................... | 65 |
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| Section i | Seats and Restraint Systems | |||
| Airbag System .............................................. | 69 | Servicing Your Airbag-Equipped Vehicle ...... | 84 | |
| Where Are the Airbags? .............................. | 72 | Adding Equipment to Your | ||
| When Should an Airbag Inflate? .................. | 75 | Airbag-Equipped Vehicle .......................... | 85 | |
| What Makes an Airbag Inflate? ................... | 77 | Restraint Arrangement Check ............................... | 86 | |
| How Does an Airbag Restrain? ................... | 77 | Checking the Restraint Systems | 86 | |
| What Volition Yous Encounter After an | ||||
| Replacing Restraint Organisation Parts | ||||
| Airbag Inflates? | 78 | |||
| After a Crash | 87 | |||
| Passenger Sensing Organisation | 79 | |||
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Front Seats
Manual Passenger Seat
Your vehicle may have a manual passenger seat.
Lift the bar located under the forepart of the seat to unlock information technology. Slide the seat to where yous desire it
and release the bar. Attempt to move the seat with your body to be sure the seat is locked in identify.
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Power Seats
Driver's Seat with Manual Lumbar, Power Seat Command, and Ability Recline shown
If the vehicle has ability seats, the controls used to operate them are located on the outboard
side of the seats. To arrange the seat, do any of the following:
• Move the seat forward or rearward past sliding the control forrard or rearward.
• Raise or lower the forepart part of the seat cushion past moving the forepart of the command upwards or downwardly.
• Enhance or lower the rear part of the seat cushion by moving the rear of the control up or downwardly.
Your driver's seat may have power reclining seatbacks. See "Power Reclining Seatbacks" nether Reclining Seatbacks on page 12 for more information.
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Manual Lumbar
Commuter's Seat with Manual Lumbar and eight-style Power Controls shown
If your vehicle has transmission lumbar, the lever is located on the outboard side of the commuter's
seat near the front of the seat cushion. Lift upwards on the lever repeatedly to increase lumbar back up. Push down on the lever repeatedly to decrease lumbar support.
Heated Seats
If your vehicle has this feature, the buttons that control temperature
for the driver'south and front rider's seats are located on the climate control panel. See Climate Control System on page 166.
Press the button once to warm the seat to a high temperature. Both lights below the heated seat symbol will come on. Press the push button a second time to reduce the seat to a lower temperature. The bottom lite will be lit. Press the button a third time to turn the heated seat off.
The heated seat feature will need to exist turned on each time the ignition is turned off and back on once more.
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Reclining Seatbacks
Transmission Reclining Seatbacks
{Circumspection:
You can lose control of the vehicle if you lot try to adjust a manual driver's seat while the vehicle is moving. The sudden movement could startle and confuse you lot, or make you lot push button a pedal when you lot do not want to. Adjust the driver's seat merely when the vehicle is not moving.
{Circumspection:
If the seatback is not locked, it could move forward in a sudden stop or crash. That could crusade injury to the person sitting there. Always push and pull on the seatback to exist certain information technology is locked.
The vehicle may have a transmission recline on the front passenger's seat. There may be manual recline on the driver's seat.
Passenger's Seat with Transmission Recline and Power Seat Control shown
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To recline the seatback, do the following:
1. Elevator the recline lever.
2. Move the seatback to the desired position, and then release the lever to lock the seatback in place.
3. Button and pull on the seatback to make certain it is locked.
To render the seatback to an upright position, practise the following:
1. Elevator the lever fully without applying pressure to the seatback and the seatback will return to the upright position.
2. Push and pull on the seatback to brand sure it is locked.
Power Reclining Seatback
Commuter's Seat with Manual Lumbar, Ability Seat Control, and Power Recline shown
The commuter'southward seat may take a power reclining seatback. The control used to operate it is located on the outboard side of the seat absorber rear of the horizontal ability seat command.
• Press the control rearward to recline the seatback.
• Press the control forrad to enhance the seatback.
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{Circumspection:
Sitting in a reclined position when your vehicle is in motility can be dangerous. Even if y'all buckle up, your safety belts cannot practice their job when yous are reclined similar this.
The shoulder belt cannot exercise its job because it will non be against your body. Instead, information technology volition exist in front end of you. In a crash, you could get into it, receiving neck or other injuries.
The lap belt cannot do its task either. In a crash, the belt could go up over your abdomen. The chugalug forces would be in that location, non at your pelvic basic. This could cause serious internal injuries.
For proper protection when the vehicle is in motility, have the seatback upright. Then sit well back in the seat and wearable your safety belt properly.
Exercise not have a seatback reclined if your vehicle is moving.
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Head Restraints
Adjust the head restraint and then that the tiptop of the restraint is at the same height as the top of the occupant'south head. This position reduces the gamble of a cervix injury in a crash.
Pull the head restraint up to raise information technology. To lower the head restraint, printing the button, located on the meridian of the seatback, and push the restraint down.
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Center Seat
Your vehicle may take a forepart center seat. There are cupholders on the underside of the seat cushion. To apply them, flip the seat cushion frontward. This seat can also be used as a storage area by lowering the seatback. Run into Heart Console Storage Surface area on page 143. The seatback doubles as an armrest for the driver or front passenger when the centre seat is unoccupied.
For data on safety belts for this position, see
Centre Front Passenger Position on folio 36.
Rear Seats
Divide Folding Rear Seat
Flip and Fold Feature
If your vehicle has this feature, yous can flip the bottom seat cushion(southward) forwards and fold the seatback(southward) down for an extended flat cargo area.
To use this feature, exercise the following:
Notice: Folding a rear seat with the safety belts however fastened may cause damage to the seat or the safety belts. Always unbuckle
the condom belts and return them to their normal stowed position before folding a rear seat.
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1. Disconnect the rear center condom belt latch from the
mini buckle, if your vehicle has this, by using an object such as a motorcar central.
Insert the fundamental into the slot in the mini buckle and press the release button.
ii. Flip the bottom seat absorber frontwards by pulling up on the tab located in the center
of the seat absorber where the seatback meets the seat cushion. At that place is a tab on both
rear seats.
Brand sure the front seats are not reclined.
If they are, the seat cushion will non flip forwards completely.
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3. Lower the seatback(s) by pulling frontward on the tab located
on the outboard side of the seatback(s).
Make sure the front seats are not reclined. If they are, the rear seatbacks will not
fold down all the way.
To render the seats to the normal position, do the following:
{CAUTION:
If the seatback is not locked, it could motion forrad in a sudden stop or crash. That could cause injury to the person sitting there. Ever push and pull on the seatback to be sure it is locked.
1. Raise the seatback upwards and brand sure it latches.
{CAUTION:
A safety belt that is improperly routed, non properly attached, or twisted will not provide the protection needed in a crash. The person wearing the belt could be seriously injured. After raising the rear seatback, e'er check to be certain that the safety belts are properly routed and attached, and are non twisted.
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ii. Ensure that the rubber belts are properly stowed over the seatback in all 3 positions.
iii. Reconnect the rear center safety belt latch plate
to the mini buckle, if your vehicle has this.
Brand certain the safety belt label is facing the same management as the release button of
the mini buckle. Make sure the chugalug is non twisted. Button and pull on the latch plate to exist sure information technology is secure.
4. Flip the bottom seat absorber back into identify. Button firmly on the seat cushion to brand sure it is secure.
When the seat is not in use, the seatback should be placed in upright, locked position, and the seat absorber should be in the down position.
Nether Seat Storage
Your vehicle has under seat storage.
To get to the storage area, lift up on the tab located in the center of the bottom seat cushion where the seat cushion meets the seatback. See Rear Storage Surface area on page 143 for more than information.
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Safety Belts
Safety Belts: They Are for Anybody
This part of the manual tells you how to utilize safe belts properly. Information technology also tells yous some things you should not do with safe belts.
{CAUTION:
Do not let anyone ride where he or she cannot vesture a prophylactic belt properly. If you are in a crash and you are not wearing a rubber belt, your injuries tin be much worse. You can hitting things inside the vehicle or be ejected from it. You tin be seriously injured or killed. In the same crash, you lot might not be, if you are buckled upwardly. Ever spike your rubber belt, and check that your passengers' belts are fastened properly besides.
{Caution:
It is extremely dangerous to ride in a cargo area, inside or outside of a vehicle. In a standoff, people riding in these areas are more likely to exist seriously injured or killed. Do not allow people to ride in any area of your vehicle that is non equipped with seats and safety belts. Exist sure everyone in your vehicle is in a seat and using a safety belt properly.
Your vehicle has indicators to remind you and your passengers to buckle your safety belts. See Safety Belt Reminder Light on page 175 and Passenger Prophylactic Chugalug Reminder Light on page 175.
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In nigh states and in all Canadian provinces, the police says to wear prophylactic belts. Here is why:
They work.
Y'all never know if you will be in a crash. If you lot do have a crash, you do not know if information technology will exist a
bad 1.
A few crashes are mild, and some crashes tin can be then serious that even buckled up, a person
would not survive. But most crashes are in betwixt. In many of them, people who buckle up can survive and sometimes walk away. Without belts they could take been badly injure or killed.
After more twoscore years of rubber belts in vehicles, the facts are articulate. In most crashes buckling up does matter... a lot!
Why Condom Belts Work
When y'all ride in or on anything, you lot go as fast equally it goes.
Have the simplest vehicle. Suppose it is just a seat on wheels.
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| Put someone on it. | Get it up to speed. Then stop the vehicle. |
| The rider does not terminate. |
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The person keeps going until stopped by something. In a real vehicle, it could be the windshield...
or the instrument panel...
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Volition I exist trapped in the vehicle after an accident if I am wearing a safety belt?
You could be — whether you are wearing a safety belt or non. Simply y'all can unbuckle a rubber belt, even if you are upside downwardly. And your chance of being conscious during and afterwards an accident, so yous can unbuckle
and become out, is much greater if you are belted.
If my vehicle has airbags, why should I have to wearable safe belts?
or the safety belts!
With condom belts, you dull down equally the vehicle does. You lot get more time to stop. Y'all end over more distance, and your strongest bones have the forces. That is why safety belts
brand such good sense.
Questions and Answers Near
Safety Belts
Q:
A:
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A: Airbags are supplemental systems simply; and so they work with rubber belts — not instead of them. Every airbag system ever offered
for sale has required the apply of condom belts. Even if you lot are in a vehicle that has airbags, you lot yet take to buckle upward to get the most protection. That is truthful non merely in frontal collisions, but especially in side and other collisions.
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Q: If I am a good commuter, and I never drive far from domicile, why should I wear safety belts?
A: You may be an first-class driver, but if you are in an accident — fifty-fifty one that is not your fault — you and your passengers can be injure. Existence a good commuter does not protect you lot from things beyond your control, such equally bad drivers.
Virtually accidents occur within 25 miles (40 km) of abode. And the greatest number of serious injuries and deaths occur at speeds of less than 40 mph (65 km/h).
Safety belts are for everyone.
How to Wear Condom Belts Properly
This part is merely for people of developed size.
Exist aware that in that location are special things to know about safe belts and children. And there
are different rules for smaller children and babies. If a child will exist riding in your vehicle, see
Older Children on page 43 or Infants and Young Children on folio 46. Follow those rules for everyone's protection.
Commencement, you lot will desire to know which restraint systems your vehicle has.
We volition start with the driver position.
Driver Position
Lap-Shoulder Belt
The driver has a lap-shoulder belt. Here is how to wear it properly.
1. Close and lock the door.
ii. Adjust the seat so yous can sit down up straight. To see how, encounter "Seats" in the Alphabetize.
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3. Pick upwardly the latch plate and pull the belt beyond you. Do not permit it go twisted.
The lap-shoulder belt may lock if you pull the chugalug beyond y'all very quickly. If this happens, permit the chugalug get dorsum slightly to unlock it.
Then pull the belt across yous more than slowly.
4. Push button the latch plate into the buckle until it clicks.
Pull up on the latch plate to make sure it is secure. If the belt is non long enough,
see Safety Belt Extender on folio 42.
Brand sure the release button on the buckle is positioned so you lot would be able to unbuckle the rubber belt quickly if you always had to.
5. Move the shoulder belt height adjuster to the meridian that is right for you. Improper shoulder belt height adjustment could reduce the effectiveness of the prophylactic belt in a crash. Encounter
Shoulder Chugalug Summit Adjustment on page 34.
half dozen. To make the lap part tight, pull up on the shoulder chugalug.
It may exist necessary to pull stitching on the safety chugalug through the latch plate to fully tighten the lap belt on smaller occupants.
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The lap part of the belt should be worn low and snug on the hips, just touching the thighs. In
a crash, this applies strength to the potent pelvic bones. And yous would be less likely to slide nether the lap belt. If yous slid nether it, the belt would employ force at your abdomen. This could cause serious or even fatal injuries. The shoulder
belt should become over the shoulder and across the chest. These parts of the body are best able
to take belt restraining forces.
The rubber belt locks if there is a sudden finish or crash.
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Q: What is incorrect with this?
A: The shoulder belt is too loose. It volition not give nearly equally much protection this way.
{Caution:
You tin exist seriously hurt if your shoulder belt is too loose. In a crash, you would move forward too much, which could increment injury. The shoulder belt should fit against your body.
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Q: What is incorrect with this?
A: The lap belt is too loose. It will not give virtually as much protection this way.
{Caution:
You lot can be seriously hurt if your lap belt is as well loose. In a crash, you could slide under the lap belt and apply strength at your abdomen. This could cause serious or even fatal injuries. The lap belt should be worn low and snug on the hips, merely touching the thighs.
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Q: What is wrong with this?
A: The belt is buckled in the wrong place.
{Caution:
Yous can exist seriously injured if your chugalug is buckled in the wrong identify like this. In a crash, the chugalug would go upwards over your abdomen. The belt forces would be there, non at the pelvic bones. This could crusade serious internal injuries. Always buckle your belt into the buckle nearest you.
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Q: What is wrong with this?
A: The belt is over an armrest.
{CAUTION:
Yous tin be seriously injured if your belt goes over an armrest like this. The belt would be much too high. In a crash, you can slide under the chugalug. The belt force would then be applied at the abdomen, not at the pelvic bones, and that could cause serious or fatal injuries. Be certain the belt goes under the armrests.
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Q: What is wrong with this?
A: The shoulder chugalug is worn under the arm. It should exist worn over the shoulder at all times.
{CAUTION:
You lot can be seriously injured if you wear the shoulder belt under your arm. In a crash, your body would move too far forwards, which would increase the chance of head and cervix injury. Also, the belt would utilise too much force to the ribs, which are not as stiff as shoulder basic. You could also severely injure internal organs like your liver or spleen.
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Q: What is wrong with this?
A: The belt is twisted beyond the body.
{CAUTION:
You can be seriously injured by a twisted belt. In a crash, you lot would not have the total width of the belt to spread impact forces. If a chugalug is twisted, make information technology straight then it can work properly, or ask your dealer to fix it.
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To unlatch the belt, push button the push button on the buckle. The belt should go back out of the style.
Earlier you lot close the door, be sure the belt is out of the way. If you slam the door on it, you can damage both the chugalug and your vehicle.
Shoulder Belt Top Adjustment
Before you begin to bulldoze, move the shoulder belt adjuster to the height that is right for y'all.
Arrange the height so that the shoulder portion of the chugalug is centered on your shoulder. The
belt should be away from your face and neck, merely non falling off your shoulder. Improper shoulder belt elevation aligning could reduce the effectiveness of the safety belt in a crash.
To move information technology downward, squeeze the buttons (A) on the sides of the height adjuster and move
the height adjuster to the desired position.
You can move the adjuster upward just by pushing up on the shoulder belt guide.
Later on you motility the adjuster to where you desire it, try to move it down without squeezing the buttons to make sure it has locked into position.
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Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy
Safe belts work for anybody, including pregnant women. Like all occupants, they are more likely to be seriously injured if they do not wearable
condom belts.
The best way to protect the fetus is to protect the mother. When a prophylactic belt is worn properly, it
is more likely that the fetus will not be hurt
in a crash. For pregnant women, as for anyone, the key to making safety belts effective is wearing them properly.
A pregnant adult female should article of clothing a lap-shoulder belt, and the lap portion should be worn as low equally possible, below the rounding, throughout the pregnancy.
Correct Front end Passenger Position
To larn how to wear the right front passenger'southward safety belt properly, run into Driver Position on page 25.
The right front passenger'south rubber belt works the same fashion as the driver's safety belt — except for 1 thing. If you ever pull the shoulder portion of the belt out all the way, yous will engage the kid restraint locking feature. If this happens, allow the belt go back all the way and get-go again.
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Center Forepart Rider Position
Lap Belt
If your vehicle has a front bench seat, someone can sit in the center position.
When you sit in the center forepart seating position, you accept a lap prophylactic belt, which has no retractor. To make the chugalug longer, tilt the latch plate and pull it along the belt.
To make the chugalug shorter, pull its free end as shown until the belt is snug.
Buckle, position and release it the aforementioned way as the lap part of a lap-shoulder chugalug. If the belt is not long enough, come across Safety Belt Extender
on page 42.
Make sure the release button on the buckle is positioned so you would be able to unbuckle the safety belt quickly if you ever had to.
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Rear Seat Passengers
It is very important for rear seat passengers to buckle up! Accident statistics show that unbelted people in the rear seat are injure more often in crashes than those who are wearing safety belts.
Rear passengers who are not rubber belted can be thrown out of the vehicle in a crash. And they tin can strike others in the vehicle who are wearing condom belts.
Lap-Shoulder Belt
All rear seat positions accept lap-shoulder belts. Hither is how to wear i properly.
1. Choice up the latch plate and pull the belt across you. Do not let information technology get twisted.
The shoulder belt may lock if you pull the belt across y'all very quickly. If this happens, let the chugalug go back slightly to unlock it. Then pull the belt across y'all more slowly.
2. Push the latch plate into the buckle until information technology clicks.
Pull up on the latch plate to make certain it is secure.
When the shoulder chugalug is pulled out all the way, it will lock. If it does, let it get back all the way and showtime once again.
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If the belt is not long enough, encounter Rubber Belt Extender on folio 42.
Make certain the release button on the buckle is positioned so you would be able to unbuckle the condom chugalug quickly if yous e'er had to.
3. To make the lap office tight, pull upwardly on the shoulder part.
The lap part of the belt should be worn low and snug on the hips, just touching the thighs. In a crash, this applies force to the strong pelvic bones. And y'all would exist less likely to slide under the lap belt. If y'all slid nether it, the belt would use force at your belly. This could cause serious or even fatal injuries. The shoulder belt should go over the shoulder and beyond the chest. These parts of the body are best able to take belt restraining forces.
The safety belt locks if there is a sudden stop or a crash.
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{Circumspection:
You lot tin be seriously hurt if your shoulder belt is too loose. In a crash, yous would motility frontwards likewise much, which could increase injury. The shoulder belt should fit against your body.
To unlatch the belt, push the button on the buckle.
Rear Safety Chugalug Comfort Guides
Rear shoulder belt comfort guides may provide added rubber belt comfort for older children who have outgrown booster seats and for some adults. When installed on a shoulder belt, the condolement guide positions the belt abroad from
the cervix and head.
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There is one guide for each outboard passenger position in the rear seat. Here is how to install a condolement guide to the safety chugalug:
ane. Pull the guide out from the pocket on the border of the seatback.
two. Slide the guide under and by the belt. The elastic cord must exist under the belt. Then, place the guide over the chugalug, and insert the two edges of the chugalug into the slots of the guide.
iii. Be sure that the belt is not twisted and it lies flat. The elastic cord must be under the belt and the guide on height.
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{Circumspection:
A safety chugalug that is not properly worn may not provide the protection needed in a crash. The person wearing the belt could be seriously injured. The shoulder chugalug should go over the shoulder and beyond the breast. These parts of the body are best able to take belt restraining forces.
4. Buckle, position, and release the condom chugalug as described in Rear Seat Passengers on page 37. Make certain that the shoulder
belt crosses the shoulder.
To remove and store the comfort guide, squeeze the belt edges together and so that you can take them out of the guide. Slide the guide into the storage pocket on the edge of the seatback.
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Condom Belt Pretensioners
Your vehicle has rubber chugalug pretensioners for the driver and correct front passenger. Although y'all cannot run across them, they are part of the rubber belt assembly. They help tighten the safety belts during the early on stages of a moderate to severe frontal
or near frontal crash if the threshold conditions for pretensioner activation are met.
Pretensioners work only once. If they activate in a crash, you will need to become new ones, and probably other new parts for your prophylactic chugalug system. See Replacing Restraint System Parts Afterwards a Crash on page 87.
Rubber Belt Extender
If the vehicle's prophylactic belt will fasten around you, you should use it.
But if a safety belt is not long enough, your dealer will club you an extender. When you lot go in to society information technology, take the heaviest coat you will wear, so the extender will be long enough for you. To
aid avoid personal injury, do not let someone else utilise it, and apply it only for the seat information technology is made to
fit. The extender has been designed for adults. Never use it for securing child seats. To wear it, merely attach information technology to the regular safety belt. For more than data see the instruction sheet that comes with the extender.
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Child Restraints
Older Children
Older children who have outgrown booster seats should article of clothing the vehicle's safety belts.
Q: What is the proper way to habiliment safety belts?
A: An older child should wearable a lap-shoulder chugalug and become the additional restraint a shoulder belt can provide. The shoulder belt should not cross the face or neck. The lap belt should fit snugly below the hips, but touching the
top of the thighs. It should never be worn over the abdomen, which could cause severe or fifty-fifty fatal internal injuries in a crash.
According to accident statistics, children are safer when properly restrained in the rear seating positions than in the front end seating positions.
In a crash, children who are not buckled up can strike other people who are buckled up, or can be thrown out of the vehicle. Older children need
to utilize safety belts properly.
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Here 2 children are wearing the aforementioned belt. The belt can not properly spread the impact forces. In a crash, the ii children can be crushed together and seriously injured. A belt must be used past only
one person at a time.
Q: What if a child is wearing a lap-shoulder chugalug, but the child is so small that the shoulder belt is very close to the child's face up or cervix?
A: If the child is sitting in a seat next to a window, move the kid toward the middle of the vehicle. Also see Rear Safety Chugalug Condolement Guides on folio 39. If the child is sitting in the center rear seat passenger position, move the kid toward the prophylactic belt buckle. In either instance, exist sure that the shoulder chugalug withal is on the child's shoulder, then that in a crash the child'southward upper trunk would accept the restraint that belts provide.
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Here a kid is sitting in a seat that has a lap-shoulder belt, but the shoulder part is behind the child. If the child wears the belt in this way, in a crash the kid might slide under the belt. The belt's forcefulness would then exist applied right on the child'due south abdomen. That could cause serious or fatal injuries.
Wherever the kid sits, the lap portion of the chugalug should be worn low and snug on the hips, just touching the child's thighs. This applies belt force to the child'due south pelvic bones in a crash.
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Infants and Young Children
Anybody in a vehicle needs protection! This includes infants and all other children. Neither the distance traveled nor the age and size of the traveler changes the need, for everyone, to use safe restraints. In fact, the law in every state
in the United States and in every Canadian province says children upwards to some age must be restrained while in a vehicle.
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Children tin can exist seriously injured or strangled if a shoulder belt is wrapped effectually their neck and the safety belt continues to tighten. Never leave children unattended in a vehicle and never permit children to play with the safety belts.
Every time infants and young children ride in vehicles, they should have the protection provided by advisable restraints. Young children should not employ the vehicle's adult rubber belts alone, unless there is no other choice. Instead, they need to use a child restraint.
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People should never hold a infant in their arms while riding in a vehicle. A baby does not weigh much — until a crash. During a crash a infant will go then heavy it is not possible to hold information technology. For case, in a crash at only 25 mph
(twoscore km/h), a 12 lb (5.five kg) baby will all of a sudden become a 240 lb (110 kg) force on a person'south arms. A infant should exist secured in an advisable restraint.
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Children who are up against, or very close to, any airbag when information technology inflates can be seriously injured or killed. Airbags plus lap-shoulder belts offer protection for adults and older children, but not for immature children and infants. Neither the vehicle's safety belt arrangement nor its airbag system is designed for them. Young children and infants need the protection that a child restraint organisation can provide.
Q: What are the dissimilar types of add-on child restraints?
A: Addition child restraints, which are purchased by the vehicle'due south owner, are available in
four basic types. Pick of a detail restraint should have into consideration non only the child's weight, height, and historic period but also whether or not the restraint will
exist compatible with the motor vehicle in which information technology will exist used.
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For most bones types of child restraints, there are many different models available. When purchasing a child restraint, be certain it is designed to be used in a motor vehicle.
If information technology is, the restraint will accept a label maxim that it meets federal motor vehicle safety standards.
The restraint manufacturer'due south instructions that come with the restraint country the weight and elevation limitations for a item child restraint. In addition, at that place are many kinds of restraints available for children with special needs.
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Newborn infants need complete back up, including support for the head and neck. This is necessary because a newborn infant'due south neck is weak and its caput weighs so much compared with the rest of its torso. In a crash, an infant in a rear-facing seat settles into the restraint, so the crash
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forces tin can exist distributed beyond the strongest part of an baby'south trunk, the back and shoulders. Infants always should be secured in advisable infant restraints.
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The torso construction of a young kid is quite dissimilar that of an adult or older child, for whom the safety belts are designed. A immature child's hip bones are withal and so small that the vehicle's regular safety belt may not remain low on the hip bones, equally it should. Instead, it may settle upward around the child's abdomen. In a crash, the chugalug would employ force on a trunk area that is unprotected by any bony construction. This alone could cause serious or fatal injuries. Young children always should be secured in appropriate kid restraints.
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Child Restraint Systems
An infant machine bed (A), a special bed made for apply in a motor vehicle, is an babe restraint system designed to restrain or position a child on a continuous flat surface. Brand sure that the infant'due south head rests toward the eye of the vehicle.
A rear-facing baby seat (B) provides restraint with the seating surface against the dorsum of the infant. The harness system holds the baby
in place and, in a crash, acts to proceed the infant positioned in the restraint.
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