Harmony DREAMTIME ELITE User manual
®Harmony Juvenile Products HMYDTEBBB-F2 17/01 CAN
DREAMTIME ELITE
BELT-POSITIONING
BOOSTER CAR SEAT
INSTRUCTION MANUAL
This booster seat is designed for use by children
who meet the following requirements:
Mass: 18.1 - 50 kg (40 - 110 pounds)
Height: 86.4 - 144.8 cm (34 - 57 inches)
READ THIS MANUAL
Do not install or use this booster seat unl you read
and understand the instrucons in this manual and in
your vehicle owner’s manual.
FAILURE TO PROPERLY USE THIS BOOSTER SEAT
INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH
IN A SHARP TURN, SUDDEN STOP OR CRASH.
IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS, PLEASE
DO NOT RETURN THIS PRODUCT TO THE
PLACE OF PURCHASE. PLEASE CONTACT
CUSTOMERSERVICEAT 1-877-306-1001 OR AT
WWW.HARMONYJUVENILE.COM
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Thank you for choosing the Harmony®
. You have chosen one
of the safest and most comfortable opons available for
your child on the market today.
At Harmony, we pride ourselves on bringing the
most innovave, feature-rich products to our valued
customers. We have designed this booster car seat to be
safe, comfortable and easy-to-use so that you can have
peace-of-mind knowing your family is well protected.
Although it is not possible to predict if the use of a
booster seat will prevent injury or death in the event of
a collision, extensive tesng has shown that this booster
seat, when used properly, can reduce the risk of a child’s
injury or death in most accidents.
Please take the me to read and understand all the
instrucons and warnings for this booster seat. The
safety of your child depends on the proper installaon
and use of this booster seat.
REMEMBER TO ALWAYS BUCKLE UP
AND DRIVE SAFELY!
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WELCOME TO THE HARMONY FAMILY!
Website:
Mailing Address:
Telephone: 1-877-306-1001
Welcome to the Harmony family! .................................1
Registraon informaon ...............................................3
If you need help.............................................................4
Warnings .......................................................................4
General warnings.......................................................4
Usage warnings .........................................................6
Injury warnings ..........................................................8
Vehicle warnings........................................................8
Cercaons..............................................................9
Airbag warnings .........................................................9
Damage warnings ....................................................10
Mass and height limitaons ........................................11
Parts list.......................................................................12
Vehicle seang posions .............................................13
Safe vehicle seat belt systems .....................................14
Unsafe vehicle seat belt systems.................................15
Assembling/disassembling backrest ...........................16
Preparing booster seat for use ................................... 17
Headrest height adjustment.................................. 17
Securing child and booster seat in vehicle .................. 18
Installaon (with backrest) ......................................19
Installaon (without backrest).................................21
Entanglement with vehicle seat belt...........................22
Installing/removing shoulder belt guide .....................22
Using shoulder belt guide........................................23
Installing cup holder (when applicable) ......................23
Aircra installaon......................................................23
Instrucon manual storage .........................................24
Removing/installing fabric seat cover .........................24
Care and maintenance ................................................24
Warranty......................................................................25
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
REGISTER YOUR BOOSTER SEAT TODAY! Child
restraints could be recalled for safety reasons. You must
register this restraint to be reached in a recall, and to
be eligible to receive replacement parts while under
warranty.
The model number, serial number and manufacturing
date can be found on a label on the underside of the
booster seat.
or call: 1-877-306-1001
or register online:
For recall informaon, any quesons you may have, or
to make a change of address or contact informaon,
please call Customer Service at 1-877-306-1001 or visit
us online at .
PLEASE DO NOT SEND IN YOUR
REGISTRATION CARD IF YOU HAVE
REGISTERED YOUR RESTRAINT ONLINE.
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Our Customer Service Department is standing by to
help you with any quesons or concerns you may have
regarding installaon, use, care and/or parts. Please
have your product’s model number and manufacturing
date available when contacng us.
IF YOU NEED HELP
Please ll in the informaon below for future reference.
The model number and manufacturing date can be
found on a label on the underside of the booster seat.
GENERAL WARNINGS
WARNING!
!
WARNINGS
The safety of your child and the eecveness of this
booster seat depend on:
1. for the booster seat in
your vehicle.
2.
3.
using a seat belt designed to
restrain both the booster seat and your child. Many
seat belts are NOT safe to use with this booster seat.
Please review the secons “Safe/Unsafe vehicle seat
belt systems” carefully. If in doubt about installing
this booster seat, consult the vehicle owner’s manual
or call the Harmony Customer Service Department.
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Follow all labels on this booster seat and in these
wrien instrucons. 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.
NO BOOSTER SEAT CAN GUARANTEE PROTECTION
WHEN THE VEHICLE IS SERIOUSLY IMPACTED. However,
when correctly installed, a booster seat will substanally
improve the chances for survival and reduce the risk of
serious injury in most crashes.
Carefully follow the instrucons in this manual and in
your vehicle owner’s manual. If there is a discrepancy
between the two, the vehicle owner’s manual must take
precedence with regards to seat belts and/or airbags.
!USE THIS BOOSTER SEAT FORWARD-FACING ONLY.
! DO NOT USE THIS BOOSTER SEAT without properly
assembling it.
! DO NOT allow children to play with this booster seat.
!NEVER leave children alone in a vehicle under any
circumstance.
!It is recommended that children are not le in their
child restraint system unaended.
! Set a good example by ALWAYS wearing your seat
belt. Make it a rm rule that the vehicle does not move
unl everyone is buckled up. MAKE NO EXCEPTIONS.
FAILURE TO PROPERLY READ, FOLLOW AND USE
THESE INSTRUCTIONS AND THE BOOSTER SEAT
LABELS INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR
DEATH IN A SHARP TURN, SUDDEN STOP OR CRASH.
Your child’s safety depends on the proper installaon
and use of this booster seat. Even if this booster seat
seems easy to install and use, it is VERY IMPORTANT
to read and understand these instrucons and the
vehicle owner’s manual.
WARNING!
!
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! Harmony Juvenile Products advises against loaning
or passing along a booster seat. DO NOT USE A
SECOND-HAND BOOSTER SEAT or a booster seat
whose history you do not know.
! To prevent injury due to deterioraon, hidden damage,
etc., disconnue use of this booster seat aer
YEARS. There is an expiry date for use of this booster
seat indicated on the underside of the booster seat base.
STOP USING THE BOOSTER SEAT AND THROW IT
AWAY aer the date indicated. Please dispose of the unit
in a way others cannot reuse it (e.g. use a dark trash bag,
do not sell to a thri shop or in a garage sale, etc.).
! Store the booster seat in a safe place when not in use.
DO NOT place heavy objects on top of the booster seat
while in storage.
! DO NOT remove any sckers or warnings as they
contain important informaon.
USAGE WARNINGS
WARNING!
!
!ALWAYS ASSIST YOUR CHILD WHEN
GETTING INTO AND OUT OF THE
BOOSTER SEAT.
!NEVER LET YOUR CHILD LEAN ON
THE ARMREST WHEN GETTING INTO
OR EXITING THE BOOSTER SEAT TO
PREVENT THE SEAT FROM TIPPING.
!ENSURETHAT THE BOOSTER SEAT IS LEVEL, STABLE AND
DOES NOT ROCK SIDE-TO-SIDE. IF THE BOOSTER SEAT
IS NOT STABLE, TRY ANOTHER SEATING LOCATION. IN
VEHICLES WITH WIDE, FLAT SEATS, A ROLLED TOWEL
CAN BE USED ON THE OUTBOARD (DOOR) SIDE TO
ADD STABILITY TO THE BOOSTER SEAT. DO NOT ADD
ANYTHING BEHIND OR UNDER THE BOOSTER SEAT.
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Harmony Juvenile Products recommends keeping your
child in a forward-facing car seat with a harness unl
they reach the top height or mass limit allowed by your
car seat’s manufacturer. Once your child outgrows the
forward-facing car seat with a harness, it’s me to travel
in a booster seat, but sll in the back seat.
Transport Canada recommends that children under the
age of 13 years be placed in the back seat of the vehicle
and away from acve front airbags.
According to accident stascs, CHILDREN ARE SAFER
WHEN PROPERLY RESTRAINED IN THE REAR SEATING
POSITIONS THAN IN THE FRONT SEATING POSITION.
Please study the secon “Vehicle seang posions”.
Many local police and re departments frequently hold
safety inspecon events to ensure that booster seats
are properly installed. Please contact your local emergency
services department to see if and when they oer this service.
! DO NOT use any load bearing contact points other
than those described in the instrucons and marked in
the child restraint.
! DO NOT allow others to install or use this booster seat
unless they read and understand all the instrucons
and labels.
! DO NOT GIVE THIS BOOSTER SEAT to someone else
without also giving them this instrucon manual.
Addional instrucon manuals can be downloaded
directly from www.harmonyjuvenile.com.
! To ensure proper booster seat use, keep and store this
instrucon manual and refer to it when necessary.
! DO NOT LEAVE A BOOSTER SEAT UNSECURED IN YOUR
VEHICLE. In a collision, sharp turn or sudden stop, an
unsecured booster seat can injure other occupants.
Remove it or make sure that it is securely aached
to the vehicle using UAS (if available) or the vehicle’s
3-point lap-and-shoulder belt, even when not in use.
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! Use ONLY the vehicle’s 3-point lap-and-shoulder belt
system when restraining a child in this booster seat.
VEHICLE WARNINGS
INJURY WARNINGS
! INJURIES MAY OCCUR EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT IN A
CRASH if the booster seat is not properly installed or if
your child is not properly secured in the booster seat.
! The rigid items and plasc parts of a child restraint
shall be so located and installed that they are not
liable, during everyday use of the vehicle, to become
trapped by a movable seat or in a door of the vehicle.
! DO NOT leave folding vehicle seats unlatched. In
the event of a sharp turn, sudden stop or crash, a
loose seat back could prevent the booster seat from
protecng the child as well as it should.
! It is recommended that any luggage or other objects
liable to cause injuries in the event of a collision shall
be properly secured. In the event of a sharp turn,
sudden stop or crash, loose objects will keep moving,
potenally causing serious injuries.
! The child restraint shall not be used without the cover.
It MUST always be used with the fabric cover provided
by the manufacturer.
! The seat cover should not be replaced with any other
than the one recommended by the manufacturer.
! PARTS OF THE BOOSTER SEAT COULD BECOME
HOT ENOUGH TO BURN THE CHILD IF LEFT IN THE
SUN. Contact with these parts can injure your child.
ALWAYS touch the surface of any metal or plasc parts
before pung your child in the booster seat. Cover
the booster seat with a towel or blanket when the
vehicle is parked in direct sunlight. KEEP AWAY FROM
SUNLIGHT, OTHERWISE IT MAY BE TOO HOT FOR
THE CHILD’S SKIN.
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AIRBAG WARNINGS
! NEVER PLACE THIS BOOSTER SEAT IN A VEHICLE
SEATING LOCATION THAT HAS AN ACTIVE FRONTAL
AIRBAG. An inang airbag may cause serious injury
or death. Refer to your vehicle owner’s manual for
informaon about airbags and child restraint installaon.
DO NOT use this booster seat with 2-point vehicle
belts (lap-belt only or shoulder-belt only). Your child
would be seriously injured in the event of a crash.
! DO NOT use this booster seat with unsafe vehicle
seat belts listed in secon “Unsafe vehicle seat belt
systems” of this manual.
! DO NOT use this booster seat if it can’t be properly
installed. It is possible that your vehicle has no suitable
seang posion for this booster seat due to seat belt
type, airbag system and/or lack of locaon of a tether
strap anchor. Read and follow these instrucons, and
your vehicle owner’s manual carefully.
CERTIFICATIONS
This booster seat conforms to the Canadian Motor
Vehicle Safety Standards 213.2 and IS CERTIFIED for use
in the following classes of vehicles ONLY: mul-purpose
passenger vehicles, passenger cars, and trucks. Harmony
Juvenile Products has also validated compliance through
independent laboratory tesng.
This booster seat is NOT cered for use in aircra.
This booster seat must NOT be used in homes, boats,
buses, motorcycles, motor homes, or any other vehicles
that have non-forward-facing seats, missing seat belts,
or whose seat belts do not meet the requirements of
this booster seat.
This booster seat is NOT compable with vehicle child
restraint Universal Anchorage Systems (UAS).
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DAMAGE WARNINGS
! It is recommended that the device should be changed
when it has been subject to violent stresses in an accident.
! DO NOT USE A BOOSTER SEAT THAT HAS BEEN IN
AN ACCIDENT OF ANY KIND. An accident can cause
damage to the booster seat that you cannot see.
! DO NOT use this booster seat if it is damaged in any
way or has missing parts.
! NEVER use a cut, frayed or damaged vehicle seat belt.
! DO NOT tamper with or modify the booster seat, for
any reason.
!DO NOT use anything to raise the booster seat o the
vehicle seat. Untested modicaons, such as adding
extra padding, could aect the safety of the booster
seat and result in serious injury or death in a crash.
! DO NOT, EXCEPT AS DESCRIBED IN THESE
INSTRUCTIONS, MODIFY YOUR BOOSTER SEAT,
DISASSEMBLE ANY PART OR CHANGE THE WAY
THE VEHICLE SEAT BELTS ARE USED. This includes
any accessories or parts by other manufacturers as
non-tested accessories can aect the safety of the
booster seat.
This booster seat may be used in a rear seang posion
equipped with side impact airbags providing they are:
• Roof mounted;
• “Curtain” type deployment;
• Will NOT interfere with, impact or in any way reposion
the booster seat when inated.
! If a vehicle’s front seat locaon must be used, ALWAYS
disable the airbag. Failure to disable the airbag system can
result in serious injury or death. Follow the vehicle owner’s
manual for instrucons on disabling the front airbag system.
Please refer to your vehicle owner’s manual for airbag
type, and for appropriate use with child restraints.
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To use this booster seat, your child
MUST MEET ALL of the following
requirements:
• MASS: Between
18.1 - 50 kg
(40 - 110 pounds).
• HEIGHT: Between
86.4 - 144.8 cm (34 - 57 inches).
• Shoulder belt MUST lie across the
MIDDLE of the child’s shoulder and
chest ❶, and lap poron MUST be
posioned low across child’s hips ❷.
• Child’s ears MUST BE BELOW the top of
the booster seat (with backrest) ❸ or
the top of the vehicle seat back/vehicle
headrest (without backrest) ❹. If tops of ears are above
the top of the booster seat or vehicle seat back/vehicle
headrest, child is too large for the booster seat.
! WARNING:
Verify your child’s
mass and height
frequently. DO NOT
guess.
DO NOT USE THIS BOOSTER SEAT IF YOUR CHILD
DOES NOT MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS BELOW.
!WARNING!
MASS AND HEIGHT LIMITATIONS
Harmony Juvenile Products recommends that you ALWAYS
conrm provincial laws with local authories. Laws vary
from province to province regarding minimum/maximum
booster seat requirements for age, mass and height.
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❷
❸❹
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PARTS LIST
TO PURCHASE REPLACEMENT PARTS:
In Canada or the United States, please
contact us at www.harmonyjuvenile.com
or by calling 1-877-306-1001.
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WWW.HARMONYJUVENILE.COM
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IMPROPER PLACEMENT OF THE BOOSTER SEAT
INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH.
Some seang posions in your vehicle may NOT be
safe for this booster seat. Some vehicles have NO
seang posions which are compable with this
booster seat due to seang surface, seat belt type
and/or airbag system. Read and follow these
instrucons, and your vehicle owner’s manual carefully.
Children aged 13 and under MUST ride in the rear seats,
away from front airbags. The only excepon is if the airbags
are turned o. When using a booster seat in a vehicle
with acve airbags, refer to the vehicle owner’s manual
for addional installaon instrucons and precauons.
For rear seat installaon, adjust the front seat forward
enough to ensure the child’s feet do
not hit the backrest of the front seat.
FAILURE TO PROPERLY SECURE YOUR CHILD AND
THE BOOSTER SEAT IN YOUR VEHICLE INCREASES
THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH IN THE
EVENT OF A SHARP TURN, SUDDEN STOP OR CRASH.
WARNING!
!
WARNING!
!
WARNING!
!
VEHICLE SEATING POSITIONS
Only use this booster seat in forward-facing vehicle
seats. Side-facing or rear-facing seats in vans, staon
wagons or trucks CANNOT be used.
WARNING!
!
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5 cm
THE VEHICLE SEAT MUST FACE FORWARD. DO NOT
use the booster seat with the following vehicle seats:
• Seats which face sides of vehicle.
• Seats which face rear of vehicle.
• Rear seats of small extended cab pickup trucks.
• The front of the booster seat MUST
NOT hang over the edge of the
vehicle seat by more than 5 cm
(2 inches).
Refer to the vehicle owner’s manual
for child restraint installaon
instrucons for your specic vehicle.
! DO NOT use this booster seat in a seang posion where
the vehicle seat belt or seat belt buckle is not easily
accessible with the booster seat secured in place.
SAFE VEHICLE SEAT BELT SYSTEMS
SEAT BELTS DIFFER FROM VEHICLE TO VEHICLE AND
FROM SEATING LOCATION TO SEATING LOCATION
WITHIN THE SAME VEHICLE. NOT ALL VEHICLE SEAT
BELTS CAN BE USED WITH THIS BOOSTER SEAT.
You must determine if your vehicle’s seat belts are
compable for use with this booster seat. If you are
unsure, consult your vehicle owner’s manual or call
Harmony Juvenile Products.
WARNING!
!
Review your vehicle owner’s manual for vehicle seat
belt use with child restraints.
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UNSAFE VEHICLE SEAT BELT SYSTEMS
This booster seat can be installed properly using MOST
vehicle 3-point lap-and-shoulder seat belts. However, some
vehicle seat belts are not safe to use as their anchoring
points for the lap belt may not allow for a secure installaon.
NEVER use any unsafe vehicle seat belt systems.
DO NOT USE ANY OF THE
FOLLOWING VEHICLE SEAT BELT
! NEVER use a lap-only belt.
! NEVER use a non-locking vehicle
seat belt (ELR). This seat belt
type locks only when the vehicle
slows, changes direcon or stops
suddenly.
! NEVER use motor driven automac
seat belts.
! NEVER use a vehicle seat belt
system where the lap and shoulder
belts have independent retractors.
! NEVER use a vehicle seat belt
system with top or boom
anchorage points aached to the
door in any way.
! NEVER use lap belts whose anchor
points are forward of the seat
crease.
! NEVER use a seat belt system
whose anchor points allow the
booster seat to slide from side to
side when buckled in.
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1. Insert ‘U-Shape’ plasc hooks on boom of backrest
into the corresponding bars on seat base ❶❷.
2. While holding fabric down at rear of seat base, slowly
swing the backrest upwards, whereby locking the
backrest into place ❸. The hook-and-loop poron
of the fabric at rear of seat should be UNDER the
backrest ❹.
3. Secure fabric ❺.
❶ ❷
❸
❹
❺
4. To remove backrest, repeat previous steps in reverse
order.
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Your booster seat has six (6) height adjustments.
Adjust headrest height so that the boom of the headrest
is EVEN with the top of the child’s shoulders ❶.
• Li the Headrest height adjuster to raise/lower
headrest to desired height.
HEADREST HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT
PREPARING BOOSTER SEAT FOR USE
!ENSURE the vehicle shoulder belt’s
posion is correct for your child’s
size. VERIFY OFTEN.
! WARNING: DO NOT use this booster
seat if the midpoint of your child’s
head is above the top of the booster
seat (with backrest) or the top of the
vehicle seat back/vehicle headrest
(without backrest).
WARNING!
!
MOST COMMON MISTAKE PEOPLE MAKE. IT IS
VERY IMPORTANT TO READ, UNDERSTAND AND
FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS.
DO NOT MISTAKE COMFORT FOR SAFETY. THE
BELT MUST BE SNUGLY ADJUSTED AT ALL TIMES.
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!DO NOT use this booster seat if it can’t
be properly leveled, stabilized, and
installed as per this instrucon manual.
! WARNING: You MUST use the vehicle
3-point lap-and-shoulder belt system
when restraining the child in the
booster seat ❶. UAS CANNOT be used.
! WARNING:Vehicle belts MUST be
ght, adjusted to the child’s body,
and should not be twisted ❶.
! NEVER use a vehicle lap-only belt to
secure child in booster seat ❷.
! NEVER USE A LOOSE SHOULDER BELT.
! NEVER posion the shoulder belt
under the child’s arm ❸ or place the
shoulder belt behind the child’s back
❹.
!
The
lap poron MUST NOT be lying across
the child’s stomach as this can cause major injuries to
the child in case of a sharp turn, sudden stop or crash.
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❶
❷
SECURING CHILD AND BOOSTER SEAT IN VEHICLE
WARNING!
!
FAILURE TO PROPERLY SECURE YOUR CHILD IN THE
BOOSTER SEAT INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS
INJURY OR DEATH IN THE EVENT OF A SHARP TURN,
SUDDEN STOP OR CRASH. In a crash, the booster
seat provides NO protecon for your child unless
the vehicle 3-point lap-and-shoulder belt is properly
secured. Follow these instrucons carefully to
properly secure your child.
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! DO NOT allow the child to slouch,
slide down in the seat, or create slack
in the belt system ❺. If child will not
keep vehicle belt properly posioned,
DO NOT use this booster seat.
! NEVER posion vehicle belt over top
of the armrests ❻.
! The vehicle seat headrest should not
create a gap between vehicle seat and booster seat
❼. If so, remove the vehicle headrest.
! DO NOT use any load bearing contact points other
than those described in the instrucons and marked in
the child restraint.
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❻❼
❺
IF IN DOUBT ABOUT THESE POINTS OR ANY
QUESTIONS RELATED TO INSTALLATION, PLEASE
CONTACT HARMONY JUVENILE PRODUCTS.
DUE TO VARYING ANGLES OF VEHICLE SEAT BELT
RETRACTORS, EXCESS SLACK IN THE VEHICLE BELT
SYSTEM MIGHT NOT BE REMOVED AUTOMATICALLY.
Once the lap and shoulder porons of the seat belt
are properly posioned and the buckle is aached,
FEED ANY REMAINING SLACK OF THE SEAT BELT
MANUALLY BACK INTO THE RETRACTOR TO TIGHTEN
THE WHOLE SYSTEM.
WARNING!
!
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