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WARNING
Use the shoulder belt on the outside
shoulder only. Never wear the shoulder
belt under the arm. Never swing it around
the neck over the inside shoulder. Never
use a single belt for more than one
person. Failure to follow these precautions
could increase the risk and/or severity of
injury in a collision.
To tighten the lap portion of the belt, pull up on
the shoulder belt until it fits you snugly. The
belt should rest as low on your hips as possible.
Due to folding rear seats, sometimes the buckles
and tongues toward the center of the vehicle
may be hidden by the rear edge of the seat
cushion. Pull them out so they will be accessible.
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While you are fastened in the seat belt, the
combination lap and shoulder belt adjusts to
your movement. However, if you brake hard,
turn hard, or if your vehicle receives an impact
of 5 mph (8 km/h) or more, the lap and
shoulder belt will become locked and help
reduce your forward movement.
Adjustable Lap Belts Without Retractors
On the center position of the front and rear
three-passenger bench seats you will find a
lap-belt without a retractor, but does have a
locking adjustable tongue. Shorten this belt and
fasten it to buckle when you are not using it. To
lengthen the belt, tip the tongue at a right angle
to the belt and pull the belt over your lap until
the tongue reaches the buckle.
Fastening occupant safety lap belts
To fasten the belt, pull the belt across your hips
and insert the tongue into the correct buckle on
your seat until you hear a snap and feel it latch.
Make sure the buckle is securely fastened by
pulling tongue.
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Adjust the belt so that it fits snugly and as low
as possible around the hips:
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If you need to lengthen the belt, unfasten it
and repeat the procedure above.
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If you need to shorten the belt, pull on the
loose end of the webbing.
To unfasten the belt:
1.
Push the release button on the buckle. This
allows the tongue to unlatch from the
buckle.
Unfastening the front outboard lap/shoulder belts
Unfastening the rear outboard lap/shoulder belts
2.
While the belt retracts, guide the tongue to
its stowed position. If you do not guide the
tongue, it may strike you or part of the
vehicle.
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Instructions for securing child safety seats with
combination lap/shoulder safety belts having
“cinch tongues” are provided later in this
chapter.
How to Untwist or Unjam a Safety Belt
Retractor
If you should jam the lap belt retractor by
allowing the belt to retract when it is twisted,
you can free the webbing with this procedure:
1.
Pull on the belt with both hands to tighten it
on the retractor spool.
2.
Feed the belt back into the retractor until it
is completely retracted. Repeat previous step
if necessary.
3.
Pull the belt out of the retractor as far as it
will go and untwist the belt or remove the
object that is jamming the belt. Let the belt
retract.
4.
Then, pull the belt out and let it retract
several times to make sure that the belt
works properly.
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