2007 Chevrolet Cobalt Owner's Manual - Page 62

Securing a Child Restraint in the Right Front Seat Position Your vehicle has a right front passenger's airbag. A rear seat is a safer place to secure a forward-facing child restraint. See Where to Put the Restraint on page 51. In addition, if your vehicle has a passenger airbag status indicator, your vehicle has the passenger sensing system. The passenger sensing system is designed to turn off the right front passenger's frontal airbag when an infant in a rear-facing infant seat or a small child in a forward-facing child restraint or booster seat is detected. See Passenger Airbag Status Indicator on page 164 for more information on this including important safety information. If your vehicle does not have the passenger sensing system, the right front passenger's frontal airbag will deploy in collisions that are severe enough to deploy the frontal airbags, even if an infant or a small child is in the right front passenger's seat. A label on your sun visor says, "Never put a rear-facing child seat in the front." This is because the risk to the rear-facing child is so great, if the airbag deploys. 62 {CAUTION: A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be seriously injured or killed if the right front passenger's airbag inflates. This is because the back of the rear-facing child restraint would be very close to the inflating airbag. Your vehicle may have a passenger sensing system that is designed to turn off the passenger's frontal airbag if the system detects a rear-facing child restraint. However, no system is fail-safe, and no one can guarantee that an airbag will not deploy under some unusual circumstance, even though it is turned off. We recommend that rear-facing child restraints be secured in the rear seat, even if the airbag is off. CAUTION: (Continued)