Caution: To help avoid personal injury from unrepaired crash damage to a restraint
system, perform the seat belt check for each seat belt system. Replace the
seat belt system if there is any doubt about the condition of system components.
Front Seat Belt System
- The front seat belt system includes the following components:
| • | The driver and passenger seat belt retractor on all sedans is located
and attached to the center pillar. |
| • | The driver and passenger seat buckle with pretensionor are attached to
lower inner side of each front seat. |
- The driver's seat belt system, includes a seat belt switch in the driver
seat buckle which controls a reminder lamp and a tone alarm. When the driver seat
belt is buckled, the driver's door is closed, and the ignition switch is turned
ON, the following events will occur:
| • | The tone alarm will not operate. |
| • | The reminder lamp will not operate. |
- When the driver's seat belt is not buckled, the driver's door is closed,
and the ignition switch is in RUN, the following events will occur:
| • | The tone alarm will operate for 4 to 8 seconds and then go OFF. |
| • | The reminder lamp will operate for 20 seconds, until the driver seat
belt is buckled. |
| • | Then the reminder lamp will flash for an additional 55 seconds before
going OFF. |
| • | To diagnose a failure of the reminder lamp or the tone alarm,
refer to
Audible Warnings Schematics
in Instrument Panel,
Gauges and Console. |
Rear Seat Belt System
The rear seat belt system includes the following components:
| • | The rear seat belt retractor is located under the rear shelf trim panel
and is attached to the rear shelf body panel. |
| • | The center rear seat belt buckle and the outer seat belt buckle are located
in the center of the seat cushion and they are attached to the rear floor pan. |
Child Seat Restraint System
Caution: A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be seriously injured if the right-front
passengers air bag inflates. This is because the back of a rear-facing child restraint
would be very close to the inflating air bag. NEVER use a rear-facing child restraint
in this vehicle. If a forward-facing child restraint is suitable for your child, ALWAYS
move the front passenger seat as far back as it will go and then install the child
restraint. Be sure the child restraint position does not conflict with any additional
requirements provided by the manufacturer. For more information, refer
to the vehicle owners manual and the instruction that came with the child restraint.
The child seat should be installed and secured according to the manufacturer's
directions.
If the child seat has a top strap it will need to be anchored. This applies
for seats designed with a top strap provision and for vehicles sold in Canada.
Refer to
Child Restraint Tether Anchor Replacement
.
Rear-Facing infant seats must only be used the REAR seat. This type of restraint
faces the rear so that the infants head, neck and body can have the support they
need in a frontal crash. Rear-facing restraints are designed for infants up to
about 20 lbs. (9 kg) and about one year of age.
Some vehicles are equipped with rear-facing seats. Do not use a child seat
on a rear-facing seat.
Do not allow passengers to sit at locations where the seat belts are being
used in order to secure the child seat.
