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D-4
Knowing Your Vehicle Belts
Review your vehicle’s owner manual for
vehicle seat belt use with child restraints.
This is your best source for information
concerning your vehicle.
Not all vehicle belts will work with this
child restraint. This child restraint must
be tightly locked in place at all times,
during travel. You must determine if
your vehicles belts are compatible with
this child restraint.
Vehicle Belts
• Automatic/Passive vehicle seat
belts
You MUST have a vehicle lap belt to
install any child restraint. An automatic
(passive) shoulder vehicle belt may
or may not have a separate vehicle
lap belt. Consult your vehicle owner’s
manual.
• Vehicle belts in
center of the door
or side panel
You must move
the child restraint
to another seating
location. Consult your vehicle owner’s
manual.
• Vehicle belts that are in front of the
seat bight
You may need to
move the child
restraint to another
seating location.
Consult your vehicle
owner’s manual.
• Do Not Use with inflatable seat
belts
You may need to move the child restraint
to another seating location or use LATCH
belts only.
• ELR
(Emergency
Locking
Retractor)
vehicle belts
These lap and shoulder vehicle belts
only lock in a sudden stop or crash, and
do not properly secure a child restraint
alone. You may need to use a locking
clip when installing with or without
the base. Consult your vehicle owner’s
manual.
To learn if you have this type of vehicle
belt, gently pull the vehicle belt all the
way out of the retractor (spool), let it
return several inches, then pull on it
again. If it moves freely, it is an ELR
vehicle belt.
If it is locked and will not allow any
more vehicle belt to come out, it is a
switchable retractor.
ELR lap-only vehicle belts
MUST NOT be used with this
child restraint.
• Switchable retractor
These vehicle belts switch from ELR
to ALR (Automatic Locking Retractor).
You must have the vehicle belts in the
locking mode to use them. Follow the
instructions in the
installation sections.
• ALR (Automatic Locking
Retractor)
These vehicle belts lock after pulling
the webbing out and letting the vehicle
belt go back into the retractor an inch
or two. Follow the instructions in the
installation sections.
D. General Vehicle Installation
