2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee Owner Manual SRT8 - Page 66

THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING YOUR VEHICLE 65 LATCH - Child Seat Anchorage System (Lower Anchors and Tether for CHildren) Your vehicle's rear seat is equipped with the child restraint anchorage system called LATCH. The LATCH system provides for the installation of the child restraint without using the vehicle's seat belts, instead securing the child restraint using lower anchorages and upper tether straps from the child restraint to the vehicle structure. strap kits or retro-fit kits. You are urged to take advantage of all the available attachments provided with your child restraint in any vehicle. NOTE: When using the LATCH attaching system to install a child restraint, please ensure that all seat belts not being used for occupant restraints are stowed and out of reach of children. Remind all children in the vehicle that the seat belts are not toys and should not be played with, and never leave your child unattended in the LATCH-compatible child restraint systems are now avail- vehicle. able. However, because the lower anchorages are to be All three rear seating positions have lower anchorages introduced over a period of years, child restraint systems that are capable of accommodating LATCH-compatible having attachments for those anchorages will continue to child seats having flexible, webbing-mounted lower atalso have features for installation using the vehicle's seat tachments. Child seats with fixed lower attachments belts. Child restraints having tether straps and hooks for must be installed in the outboard positions only. Regardconnection to the top tether anchorages, have been less of the specific type of lower attachment, NEVER available for some time. For some older child restraints, install LATCH-compatible child seats such that two seats many child restraint manufacturers offer add-on tether share a common lower anchorage. 2