If your child restraint has the LATCH system, see LowerAnchors and Tethers for Children (LATCH) onpage 1-37 for how to install your child restraint usingLATCH. If you secure a child restraint using a safety beltand it uses a top tether, see Lower Anchors andTethers for Children (LATCH) on page 1-37 for toptether anchor locations.Do not secure a child seat in a position without a toptether anchor if a national or local law requires that thetop tether be anchored, or if the instructions thatcome with the child restraint say that the top strap mustbe anchored.In Canada, the law requires that forward-facing childrestraints have a top tether, and that the tether beattached.You will be using the lap-shoulder belt to secure thechild restraint in this position. Follow the instructions thatcame with the child restraint.1. Move the seat as far back as it will go beforesecuring the forward-facing child restraint.When the passenger sensing system has turned offthe right front passenger’s frontal airbag, the offindicator on the passenger airbag status indicatorshould light and stay lit when you start thevehicle. See Passenger Airbag Status Indicator onpage 3-61.2. Put the child restraint on the seat.3. Pick up the latch plate, and run the lap and shoulderportions of the vehicle’s safety belt through oraround the restraint. The child restraint instructionswill show you how.1-48
