2012 Dodge Caliber Owner Manual - Page 82

80 THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING YOUR VEHICLE • The restraint must be appropriate for your child's restraint using lower anchorages and upper tether straps weight and height. Check the label on the restraint for from the child restraint to the vehicle structure. weight and height limits. LATCH-compatible child restraint systems are now avail• Carefully follow the instructions that come with the able. However, because the lower anchorages are to be restraint. If you install the restraint improperly, it may introduced over a period of years, child restraint systems having attachments for those anchorages will continue to not work when you need it. have features for installation using the vehicle's seat NOTE: For additional information, refer to belts. Child restraints having tether straps and hooks for www.seatcheck.org or call 1-866-SEATCHECK. Canaconnection to the top tether anchorages have been availdian residents should refer to Transport Canada's webable for some time. For some older child restraints, many site for additional information: http://www.tc.gc.ca/ child restraint manufacturers offer add-on tether strap roadsafety/safedrivers/childsafety/index.htm kits or retrofit kits. You are urged to take advantage of all Lower Anchors and Tether for CHildren (LATCH) the available attachments provided with your child reYour vehicle is equipped with the child restraint anchor- straint in any vehicle. age system called LATCH, which stands for Lower Child seats with fixed lower attachments must be inAnchors and Tether for CHildren. The LATCH system stalled in the outboard positions only. If you are installing provides for the installation of the child restraint without LATCH-compatible child restraints in adjacent rear seatusing the vehicle seat belt, instead securing the child ing positions, you can use the LATCH anchors or the