2004 GMC Sierra 1500 Pickup Owner's Manual - Page 72

A rear seat is a safer place to secure a forward facing child restraint. See Where to Put the Restraint on page 1-42. If you need to secure a forward-facing child restraint in the right front seat position, move the seat as far back as it will go before securing a forward-facing child restraint. See Manual Seats on page 1-3 or Power Seats on page 1-4. If your child restraint is equipped with the LATCH system, see Lower Anchorages and Top Tethers for Children (LATCH System) on page 1-48. See Top Strap on page 1-43 if your child restraint has one. If your child restraint does not have the LATCH system, you will be using the lap-shoulder belt to secure the child restraint in this position. Be sure to follow the instructions that came with the child restraint. Secure the child in the child restraint when and as the instructions say. 1. Your vehicle has a right front passenger's frontal air bag. See Air Bag Off Switch on page 1-76 and Passenger Sensing System on page 1-81. If your child restraint is forward-facing, move the seat as far back as it will go before securing the restraint in this seat. See Manual Seats on page 1-3 or Power Seats on page 1-4. If you need to use a rear-facing child restraint in this seat, make sure the air bag is off once the child restraint has been installed. When the passenger sensing system or the air bag off switch has turned off the right front passenger's frontal air bag, the off indicator in the passenger air bag status indicator should light and stay lit when you turn the ignition to RUN or START. See Passenger Air Bag Status Indicator on page 3-40. 2. Put the child restraint on the seat. {CAUTION: If the air bag readiness light in the instrument panel cluster ever comes on when you have turned off the air bag, it means that something may be wrong with the air bag system. The right front passenger's air bag could inflate even though the switch is off. If this ever happens, have the vehicle serviced promptly. Until you have the vehicle serviced, do not let anyone whom the national government has identified as a member of a passenger air bag risk group sit in the right front passenger's position (for example, do not secure a rear-facing child restraint in the right front passenger's seat). See ″Air Bag Off Switch″ in the Index. 1-66