Harmony V6 Highback User manual
®2011 Harmony Juvenile Products 06/11
This booster seat is designed for use by children who
meet the following requirements:
Weight: 30 – 110 pounds (13.6 – 50 kg)
Height: 34 – 57 inches (86.4 – 144.8 cm)
Do not install or use this booster seat unl you read
and understand the instrucons in this manual.
Thank you for choosing the
. 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. This booster car seat model fully contains
your child’s upper, mid and lower body, protecng your
child in the event of a front, rear or side impact collision.
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.
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Welcome to the Harmony family ................................. 1
Registraon informaon .............................................. 3
If you need help .......................................................... 3
Warnings ...................................................................... 4
Important safety notes ............................................... 7
Parts list ................................................................... 9-10
Entanglement with shoulder belt .............................. 11
Instrucon manual storage ...................................... 12
Booster seat locaon .............................................. 12
Weight and height limits .......................................... 13
Vehicle safety belts .................................................. 14
Vehicle seang posions ........................................... 15
Assembling back support ......................................... 16
Using your Harmony booster car seat with backrest ... 17
Booster seat posions ................................................ 18
Headrest height adjustment ...................................... 19
Removing back support ............................................. 19
Using your Harmony booster
car seat without backrest ............................................ 20
Installing shoulder belt guide
on backless booster car seat ..................................... 21
Removing shoulder belt guide
from backless booster car seat .................................... 21
Removing seat cover .................................................. 22
Installing seat cover ................................................... 22
Aircra installaon ..................................................... 23
Care and maintenance ............................................... 23
Warranty ..................................................................... 24
Booster seats could be recalled for safety reasons.
You must register this booster seat to be reached in the
unlikely event of a recall.
For recall informaon, call the U.S. Government’s Auto
Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY: 1-800-424-9153)
or go to www.NHTSA.gov.
Our customer service department is standing by to
help you with any quesons or concerns you may have
regarding installaon, use, care and/or maintenance.
Please have your product’s available
when contacng us. This number can be found on a
scker on the underside of your booster seat.
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Follow all instrucons on this booster seat and in the
wrien instrucons. INSTALL OR USE THIS
BOOSTER SEAT UNTIL YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND
THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS MANUAL AND IN YOUR
VEHICLE OWNER’S MANUAL. allow others to
install or use the booster seat unless they understand
how to use it.
Register your booster seat with the manufacturer in
case of quesons, concerns or if the manufacturer
must contact you in case of a product recall.
A booster seat cannot guarantee protecon 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.
assist your child when geng into and out of
your booster seat.
let your child lean on the armrest when
geng into or exing the booster seat to prevent the
seat from pping.
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.
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This booster seat is not compable with vehicle
child-restraint anchorage systems (LATCH).
Use the vehicle’s lap-and-shoulder-belt system
when restraining a child in this booster seat.
use this booster seat with two-point vehicle belts (lap-
belt only or shoulder-belt only). Your child would be
seriously injured in the event of a crash.
This booster seat conforms to all applicable Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and is cered for use
in motor vehicles only. This seat must be used in
the home, in aircra, in boats, or other non-cered
applicaons.
. In a sharp turn, sudden stop or in a crash, an
unsecured booster seat may injure vehicle occupants.
To prevent injury due to deterioraon, hidden
damage, lost instrucons, outdated technology, etc.,
disconnue use of a booster seat that is older than
six years.
. An accident can cause damage to the
booster seat that you cannot see.
To ensure proper booster seat use, keep and store this
instrucon manual with your booster and refer to it
when necessary.
or use any
accessories or parts by other manufacturers.
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leave folding vehicle seats unlatched. In
the event of a sudden stop, a loose seat back could
prevent the booster seat from protecng the child as
well as it should.
use anything to raise the booster seat o the
vehicle seat.
allow children to play with this booster seat.
leave children alone in a vehicle.
. If an airbag
inates, 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 informaon
about airbags and booster seat installaon.
leave loose objects, e.g. books, bags, etc., in
the back of a vehicle. In the event of a sudden stop,
loose objects will keep moving, potenally causing
serious injuries.
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use a cut, frayed or damaged vehicle seat belt.
to someone else
without also giving them this instrucon manual.
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According to accident stascs, children are
safer when properly restrained in vehicle
seang posions, rather than front seang
posions. Please study the secon on
in this instrucon manual to ensure
the child’s safety. If in doubt about installing this
booster seat, consult the vehicle owner’s manual.
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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 excepons.
Cover the booster seat with a towel or blanket when
the vehicle is parked in direct sunlight.
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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.
or a
booster seat whose history you do not know.
The booster seat
. Contact with these parts can injure your
child. touch the surface of any metal or
plasc parts before pung your child in the booster
seat.
ASSIST YOUR CHILD WHEN GETTING INTO
AND OUT OF YOUR BOOSTER SEAT.
!
LET YOUR CHILD LEAN ON
THE ARMREST WHEN GETTING INTO
OR EXITING THE BOOSTER SEAT TO
PREVENT THE SEAT FROM TIPPING.
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Child is too tall when
top of ears (mid-point
of child’s head) are
above the top of the
booster seat.
Child is too tall when
top of ears (mid-
point of child’s head)
are above the top of
the vehicle seat back
or vehicle headrest.
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In the United States or Canada, please
contact us at www.harmonyjuvenile.com
or by calling 1-877-306-1001.
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Check your vehicle’s safety informaon and seat belt
guide to learn about how your seat belt works.
It is recommended that the switchable retractor be
engaged by the caregiver to hold the child snugly, so the
shoulder belt cannot be pulled out:
• Place your child into the booster seat and fasten the
seatbelt.
• Pull the seatbelt all the way out unl the retractor
locks.
• let the seatbelt retract unl it is snug against
your child.
• that it is not too ght or too loose.
• Do the same for all unused seatbelts.
Teach your child that seat belts are not toys and should
never be played with, regardless of whether the car is in
moon or not.
be aware of what your children are doing in
the back seat.
We recommend that you store your
instrucon manual in the pocket
provided on the side of the booster
seat (see Parts List - J).
Some seang posions in your vehicle may be
safe for this booster seat. Some vehicles do not have
any seang posions that can be used safely with
this booster seat. If you are not sure where to place
the booster seat in your vehicle, consult your vehicle
owner’s manual or call Harmony Juvenile Products.
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• Children are safer when properly restrained in
vehicle seang posions.
• The vehicle seat face forward.
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To use this Harmony booster car seat, your child
meet of the following requirements:
• : Between 30 - 110 lbs. (13.6 – 50 kg).
• : Between 34 – 57 inches (86.4 – 144.8 cm).
• Shoulder belt lie across child’s shoulder and
cross over child’s sternum (see illustraon), and lap
poron be posioned low across child’s hips.
if, when sing on the booster seat, the
mid-point of your child’s head is above the top of the
vehicle seat back.
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: Some vehicles have no seang posions
compable with this or any other booster seat. If in
doubt, contact the vehicle manufacturer for assistance.
To protect your child in a crash, you must use this booster
seat with vehicle safety belts that are compable.
use any of the following vehicle belt systems
with this booster seat:
use a lap-only belt.
use a passive restraint
lap or shoulder belt mounted
on door.
use a passive restraint
lap belt with motorized
shoulder belt.
use vehicle belts that
are aached to the door in
any way or that automacally
surround the passenger when
the door is closed.
use front vehicle belts
with top or boom anchorage
points in the door.
use three-point belts
that have separate retractors for
the shoulder and lap secons. 14
The vehicle owner’s manual will have informaon on
the types of seat belts in the vehicle. If the belt type is
listed above, select another seang posion.
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The U.S. Department of Transportaon warns
that children aged 12 and under must ride in
the rear seats, away from front airbags. The only
excepon is if the airbag is turned o. When using
a booster seat in a vehicle with airbags, refer to
the vehicle owner’s manual for addional booster
seat installaon instrucons and precauons.
Only use this booster seat in forward-facing
vehicle seats. Side-facing or rear-facing seats in
vans, staon wagons or trucks be used.
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• Unsnap fabric ap at the
back of the base (see
illustraon 1).
• With unit facing you,
insert ‘T-Shape’ plasc
extension on boom
of backrest into the
slot on seat base (see
illustraon 2).
• While holding seat base
down, slowly swing
the backrest upwards
and towards you while
listening for a loud
‘click’. This ensures that
the seat back is properly
secured and locked into
place (see illustraon 3).
• Finish installaon by
resnapping fabric ap
along boom of seat
base. (see illustraon 1).
• Place the booster seat rmly against the back of a
forward-facing vehicle seat in a posion equipped
with a vehicle shoulder-and-lap belt.
• Have your child sit on the booster seat with their back
at against the booster seat.
• Pull the vehicle belt from the retractor and posion the
lap belt under armrest belt guides (as indicated
by the arrows), then latch the vehicle belt buckle.
• Ensure the buckle is secure by gently pulling on it.
• Posion the shoulder belt through the shoulder belt
guide on the headrest (see illustraon).
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• The seat belt should cross the child’s shoulder and lay
across the chest – the face or neck.
• The boom of the headrest be even with the
top of the child’s shoulders, and the shoulder belt
cross over the child’s shoulder and sternum
(see illustraon page 13). Adjust head support as
necessary.
booster seat beyond reclined posion.
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• The back of the booster seat t ght against the
vehicle seat back in either the rst or second posion.
• Your booster seat has 2 recline posions:
• Unsnap fabric ap at the back of the base.
• Rotate backrest downwards (see illustraon 1).
• Pull out of base (see illustraon 2).
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The headrest can be adjusted to lock into dierent
height posions. This can be done with and without
the child in the seat.
• Hold the backrest and pull
the headrest height
adjustment handle outwards
to unlock.
• Adjust the headrest up or
down as desired.
• Release the handle to
lock the posion of the
headrest.
that headrest is securely locked into place
by pushing downwards on the headrest once desired
height is aained.
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