2003 Chevrolet Avalanche Owner's Manual - Page 48

Where to Put the Restraint Accident statistics show that children are safer if they are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat. General Motors, therefore, recommends that chiid restraints be secured in a rear seat including an infant riding in a rear-facing infant seat, a child riding in a forward-facing child seat and an older child riding in a booster seat. Never put a child in a rear-facing child restraint in the right front passenger seat unless your vehicle has the passenger sensing system and the passenger air bag status indicator shows off. Never put a rear facing child restraint in the right front passenger seat unless the air bag is off. Here's why: is Even though the passenger sensing system designed to turnoff the passenger's frontal air bag if the system detects a rear-facing child restraint, no system is fail-safe, and no one can guarantee that an air bag will not deploy under some unusual circumstance, even though it is turned off. General Motors therefore recommends that rear-facing child restraints be secured in the rear seat whenever possible, even if the air bag is off. If you secure a forward-facing child restraint in the right front seat, always move the front passenger seat as far back it will go. It is as A( 3 rear-facing restraint child ca.. >e seriously injured or killed if the right front passenger's air bag inflates. This because the is back of the rear-facing child restraint would be the very close to inflating airbag. Be sure the air bag is off before using a rear-facing child restraint in the right front seat position. CAUTION: (Continued) If your vehicle has the passenger sensing system and you need to secure a rear-facing child restraint in the right front passenger's seat, the passengers frontal air bag must be off. See Passenger Sensing System on page 1-61 and Securing a Child Restraint in the Right Front Seat Position on page 1-48 for more on this including important safety information. 1-41