2003 GMC Sierra 1500 Pickup Owner's Manual - Page 62

A rear seat is a safer place to secure a forward-facing child restraint. If your needto secure a forward-facing child restraint in the front seat position, see Where to Put the Restraint on page 1-41. if yoar vehicle has the AIR BAG OFF switch and you need to secure a rear-facing child restraint in the right front passenger's seat, the passenger's air bag must be turned off. See Air Bag Off Switch on page 1-68 for more on this, including important safet\/ hformation. certain conditions, no system is fail-safe, and no one can guarantee that air bag will not an deploy under some unusual circumstance, even though it is turned off. General Motors therefore recommends that rear-facing child restraints be transported in vehicles with a rear seat that will accommodate a rear-facing child restraint, whenever possible. I A child in a rear-facing --1ild restraint car. -e seriously injured or killed if the right front passenger's air bag inflates. This is because the back of the rear facing child restraint would be very close to the inflating air bag. Be sure the air bag is off before using a rear-facing child restraintin the right front seat position. Even though the Passenger Sensing System and/or AIR BAG OFF switch are designed to turn off the passenger's frontal air bag under CAUTION: (Continued) Regular Cab and Extended Cab Models: Your vehicle has a right front passenger air bag. There's a switch on the instrument panel that you can use to turn off the right front passenger's air bag when you need to secure a rear-facing child restraint at the right front passenger's position. See the following illustration. Your switch may vary slightly. See Air Bag Off Switch on page 1-68 for more on this, including important safety information. 1-55