2010 Jeep Liberty Owner's Manual - Page 80

THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING YOUR VEHICLE 79 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 retrofit kits. You are urged to take advantage of all the available attachments provided with your child restraint in any vehicle. All three rear seating positions have lower anchorages that are capable of accommodating LATCH-compatible child seats having fixed lower attachments or flexible webbing-mounted lower attachments. Child seats with fixed lower attachments must be installed in the outboard seating positions only. The center seating position will accommodate LATCH-compatible lower anchorages with flexible webbing mounted attachments only. Regardless of the specific type of lower attachment. NEVER install LATCH-compatible child seats such that two seats share a common lower anchorage. 2 LATCH-compatible child restraint systems are now available. However, because the lower anchorages are to be introduced over a period of years, child restraint systems having attachments for those anchorages will continue to have features for installation using the vehicle's seat belts. Child restraints having tether straps and hooks for If you are installing LATCH-compatible child restraints connection to the top tether anchorages, have been in adjacent rear seating positions, you can use the available for some time. For some older child restraints, LATCH anchors or the vehicle's seat belt for the outboard many child restraint manufacturers offer add-on tether position, but you must use the vehicle's seat belt at the