Seating and Safety Restraints
10.
Beforeplacingthechildintheseat,forciblymovetheseatforward
andbacktomakesuretheseatissecurelyheldinplace.Tocheck
this,grabtheseatatthebeltpathandattempttomoveitsideto
sideandforwardandback.Thereshouldbenomorethanoneinch
(2.5
cm)ofmovementforproperinstallation.
11.
MazdarecommendscheckingwithaNHTSACertifiedChild
PassengerSafetyTechnician(CPST)tomakecertainthechild
restraintisproperlyinstalled.
Attaching child safety seats with LATCH
(Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children) attachments for child
seat anchors
TheLATCHsystemiscomposedofthreevehicleanchorpoints:two(2)
loweranchorslocatedwherethevehicleseatbackandseatcushionmeet
(calledthe“seatbight”)andone(1)toptetheranchorlocatedbehind
thatseatingposition.
LATCHcompatiblechildsafetyseatshavetworigidorwebbingmounted
attachmentsthatconnecttothetwoloweranchorsattheLATCH
equippedseatingpositionsinyourvehicle.Thistypeofattachment
methodeliminatestheneedtouseseatbeltstoattachthechildseat,
howevertheseatbeltcanstillbeusedtoattachthechildseat.For
forward-facingchildseats,thetoptetherstrapmustalsobeattachedto
thepropertoptetheranchor,ifatoptetherstraphasbeenprovided
withyourchildseat.MazdaMotorCorporationrecommendstheuseofa
childsafetyseathavingatoptetherstrap.SeeAttachingchildsafety
seatswithtetherstrapsandRecommendationsforattachingsafety
restraintsforchildreninthischapterformoreinformation.
YourvehiclehasLATCHloweranchorsforchildseatinstallationatthe
seatingpositionsmarkedwiththechildseatsymbol.
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