Graco Car Booster Seat User manual

© 2007 Graco ISPB035BA 2/07 US
Booster Seat
Owner’s Manual
READ THIS MANUAL
Do not install or use this car seat until you read and
understand the instructions in this manual.
FAILURE TO PROPERLY USE THIS CAR SEAT
INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY
OR DEATH IN A SUDDEN STOP OR CRASH.

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Table of Contents
Registration Information 3
Recall Information 3
If You Need Help/Replacement parts 4
Parts List 5
Warnings to Parents and Other Users 6-8
Assembling the Back Support 9-13
Weight and Height Limits 14-15
Vehicle Seat Location Requirements 16
Vehicle Seat Belt Requirements 17
SAFE Vehicle Belt Systems 17
UNSAFE Vehicle Belt Systems 18
Using your Graco Booster Seat 19-21
Booster Seat Positions 22
Securing your Child in Vehicle 23-26
Adjusting the Head Support 27
Removing the Back Support to Use as Backless
Booster (on certain models) 28
Securing Child in Vehicle with
Shoulder Belt Positioning Clip 29-32
Additional Information 33
Airplane Use 33
Cupholders 33
Instruction Sheet Storage 34
Care and Maintenance 34-35
To Clean Seat Mesh 36

Registration Information
Model Number:
Manufactured on:
Purchase Date:
Register Your Booster Seat
Please ll in the above information. The model
number and manufactured on (date) can be found on a
label underneath your booster seat. Fill out the prepaid
registration postcard attached to the seat cover and
mail it today. Child restraints could be recalled for
safety reasons. You must register this restraint to be
reached in a recall.
Send your name, address, model number and
manufacturing date to:
Graco Children’s Products Inc.
150 Oaklands Blvd.
Exton, PA, 19341
or call 1-800-345-4109
or register online at: www.gracobaby.com
• Call the U.S. Government’s Vehicle Safety Hotline at
1-888-327-4236 (TTY: 1-800-424-9153)
• or go to http://www.NHTSA.gov
• Graco: 1-800-345-4109 or www.gracobaby.com
Recall Information
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Please contact our Customer Service Department with
any questions you may have concerning parts, use,
maintenance or warranty information. When you contact us,
please have your product’s model number and manufactured
on (date) ready so that we may help you efciently. This
number can be found on a sticker on the underside of your
booster seat.
1-800-345-4109
or
www.gracobaby.com
If You Need Help

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Parts List
Adult assembly required.
Base
Shoulder belt
positioning clip
On Certain Models
Head Support
Lower Back
Support

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• NO BOOSTER SEAT CAN GUARANTEE
PROTECTION FROM INJURY. HOWEVER,
PROPER USE OF THIS BOOSTER SEAT
REDUCES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR
DEATH TO YOUR CHILD.
• DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THIS BOOSTER
SEAT UNTIL YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND
THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS MANUAL AND
IN YOUR VEHICLE OWNER’S MANUAL. DO
NOT let others install or use the booster seat unless
they understand how to use it.
• FAILURE TO PROPERLY USE THIS
BOOSTER SEAT INCREASES THE RISK OF
SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH IN A SHARP
TURN, SUDDEN STOP OR CRASH. YOUR
CHILD CAN BE INJURED IN A VEHICLE
EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT IN A CRASH. Sudden
braking and sharp turns can injure your child if the
booster seat is not properly installed or if your child is
not properly secured in the booster seat.
Warnings to Parents and Other Users

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•NEVER PLACE THIS BOOSTER SEAT IN
A VEHICLE SEATING LOCATION THAT
HAS AN AIR BAG. If an air bag
inates, it can hit the child and
booster seat with great force and
cause serious injury or death to
your child. Refer to your vehicle
owner’s manual for information
about air bags and booster seat
installation.
• According to accident statistics, CHILDREN ARE
SAFER WHEN PROPERLY RESTRAINED
IN REAR VEHICLE SEATING POSITIONS,
RATHER THAN FRONT SEATING POSITIONS.
For a vehicle with a front passenger air bag, refer to
your vehicle owner’s manual as well as these
instructions for booster seat installation.
• NEVER LEAVE YOUR CHILD UNATTENDED.
• NEVER LEAVE A BOOSTER SEAT
UNSECURED IN YOUR VEHICLE. An unsecured
booster seat can be thrown around and may injure
occupants in a sharp turn, sudden stop or crash.
Remove it or make sure that it is securely belted in
the vehicle.
• REPLACE THE BOOSTER SEAT AFTER AN
ACCIDENT OF ANY KIND. An accident can cause
damage to the booster seat that you cannot see.

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• DO NOT MODIFY YOUR BOOSTER SEAT
or use any accessories or parts supplied by other
manufacturers.
• NEVER USE BOOSTER SEAT IF IT HAS
DAMAGED OR MISSING PARTS. DO NOT use a
cut, frayed or damaged vehicle seat belt.
• THE BOOSTER SEAT CAN BECOME VERY
HOT IF LEFT IN THE SUN. Contact with these
parts can burn your child’s skin. Always touch the
surface of any metal or plastic parts before putting
your child in the booster seat.
• THIS CHILD RESTRAINT CONFORMS to all
applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
and is certied for use in motor vehicles. This
restraint is NOT certied for use in aircraft because
there is no shoulder belt available.
• NEVER GIVE THIS BOOSTER SEAT to
someone else without also giving them this manual.
• NEVER USE A SECOND-HAND BOOSTER
SEAT or a booster seat whose history you do not
know.
• NEVER USE THIS BOOSTER SEAT without the
armrests attached to the base.

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Assembling the Back Support
(on certain models)
Step 1.
Flip over head support and lower back support as
shown .
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Step 2.
Squeeze red adjustment handle and slide two pieces
together until they snap into place .
CHECK to make sure two pieces are securely
snapped together by pulling on them.

CLICK!

Step 3
Attach elastic strap to the hook on the fabric, on the
other side of seat pad .
Step 4.
Flip seat over and insert the fabric from the head
support underneath the fabric on the lower back
support as shown .
To make insertion of fabric easier, slide the upper and
lower back pieces apart by squeezing the red
adjustment handle.
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