Lap-Shoulder Belt
If your vehicle has a bench seat, someone can sit in the center position.
When you sit in the center seating position, you have a lap safety belt, which
has no retractor. You also have a shoulder belt, which has a retractor. In order to
have the protection of the shoulder belt, you must first connect it to the lap belt.
- Remove the shoulder belt from its stowage
location in the roof and pull it all the way down to the lap belt.
- Insert
the metal knob on the shoulder belt into the keyhole on the lap belt buckle as shown.
Be sure to slide the shoulder belt part into the keyhole until it locks into place.
- To make the lap belt longer, tilt the latch plate and pull it along the belt.
- To make the belt shorter, pull its free
end as shown until the belt is snug
- Buckle, position and release the lap-shoulder belt the same way as the
other lap-shoulder belts. If the belt is not long enough, see
Safety Belt Extender
.
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.