Orbit baby G5 User manual

Infant Car Seat + Car Seat Base
This product meets or exceeds FMVSS213 (US Federal Motor Vehicle Standards)

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Usage Recommendations
Installing the Car Seat Base and Car Seat
Terms You Need to Know
Your Child’s Safety Depends On You
Product Information and Expiration Date
Registering your Products and Recall Information
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Important Warnings
Weight and Height Recommendations for Your Child
Choosing a Vehicle Seating Location
Choosing an Installation Method
Overview
Installing with the LATCH/UAS Anchorage System
Need Help Securing Your Car Seat and Car Seat Base?
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Choosing Installation Options
Installing the Car Seat Base
Overview
Installing with the Car Seat Base: With LATCH/UAS
Un-installing the Car Seat Base: With LATCH/UAS
Installing the Car Seat Base: With Vehicle Seat Belt
Un-installing the Car Seat Base: With Vehicle Seat Belt
Installing the Car Seat on the Car Seat Base
Overview
Docking the Car Seat on the Car Seat Base
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Installing the Car Seat Base and Car Seat (cont’d)
Securing Your Child
Using and Traveling with Your Car Seat
Maintaining Your Car Seat
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Rotating and Removing the Car Seat from the Car Seat Base
Sizing the Restraint Harness to Your Child
Securing Your Child with the Restraint Harness
Using the Infant Head Support
Using the Soft Carrier Handle
Using the Sunshade
Terms You Need to Know: Stroller
Using the Car Seat on the Stroller
Terms You Need to Know: Rocker
Using the Car Seat on the Rocker
Using the Car Seat on an Aircraft
Removing the Upholstery and Sunshade
Cleaning the Upholstery and Sunshade
Re-installing the Upholstery and Sunshade
Other Cleaning Instructions
Limited Customer Warranty (United States)
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Before You Begin
Welcome to the Orbit Baby family!
Congratulations on the purchase of your Orbit Baby Infant Car Seat + Car
Seat Base. Please take the time to read through this instruction manual
carefully and make sure anyone else using the Orbit Baby Infant Car Seat +
Car Seat Base reads it carefully as well.
Not all photos in this manual include the most up-to-date product specications.
Terms You Need to Know
Your Child’s Safety Depends on You
Product Information and Expiration Date
Registering Your Products and Recall Information
This child restraint system conforms to all applicable Federal Motor
Vehicle Safety Standards. This Restraint is Certied For Use in
Motor Vehicles and Aircraft
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Terms You Need to Know
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Orbit Baby®
Infant Car Seat
Orbit Baby®
Car Seat Base

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Terms You Need to Know : Orbit Baby
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Car Seat Base
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LATCH/UAS
Connector Storage
Base Upright
Lock-Off Clamp
StrongArmTM Knob
LATCH/UAS
Connector
Belt Path
Belt Guide
Level Indicator
SmartHub

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LATCH/UAS
Belt Adjuster
LATCH/UAS
Belt
StrongArmTM
Rotation Indicator

Terms You Need to Know : Orbit Baby
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Infant Car Seat
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Paparazzi ShieldTM
Sunshade Extension (not shown)
Sunshade
Carry Handle
Release Lever
Rear Panel
Car Seat Hub

Note: The Restraint Harness is made up of the Shoulder Straps, Crotch Belt and Adjuster Strap.
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Soft Carrier
Handle Grip
Adjuster Strap Lock
(under opening)
Infant Head Support
Shoulder Strap
Restraint Harness
Crotch Buckle
Crotch Pad
Adjuster Strap
Soft Carrier Handle
Shoulder Pad
Chest Clip
Upholstery

Your Child’s Safety Depends on You
No child restraint system can guarantee protection from injury in every situation.
However, proper use of the car seat and car seat base will reduce the risk
of serious injury or death to your child. Your child’s safety depends on you
installing and using this car seat system correctly every time. This instruction
manual guides you in detail through the following steps.
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Important Steps You Must Follow:
Register car seat and car seat base with Orbit Baby and take note of
the expiration date. For your records, enter the serial number and date
manufactured on page 13. Orbit Baby will help you keep track of safety
updates and product recalls when you register with us.
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Select a seating location in your car. An important overview of vehicle
seating locations is in the Usage Recommendations section. There you can
nd information about air bags and different types of vehicle seat belts.
2.
Securely install you car seat base and car seat. There are two ways to
install the car seat:
WITH the car seat base using either the LATCH/UAS system or a vehicle
seat belt following instructions in the
Installing the Car Seat Base and Car
Seat section.
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3.

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Secure your child. The section
Securing Your Child provides you with
instructions to secure and adjust the restraint harness to the proper t
for your child.
The last section provides you with instructions to clean the car seat
and car seat base.
This section also explains the limited customer warranty.
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Use properly in an aircraft and on the Orbit Baby Stroller and Orbit
Baby Rocker. The section titled
Using and Traveling with Your Car Seat
reviews how you can use the car seat in aircraft seats and on the stroller
and rocker.
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Maintenance and cleaning.6.

Product Information and
Expiration Date
Store this instruction manual in the rear
pocket on the back of the car seat for
future use (Photo A).
The product information label is located
behind the rear pocket on the car seat
(Photo B), and on the back of the base
upright on the car seat base (Photo C).
DO NOT use the car seat or car seat base
after the expiration date, which can be
found on the product information label.
The product information label also shows
its specic serial number and date
manufactured. For your convenience
and future reference, you can copy this
information into the boxes on the
next page.
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Storing your instruction manual:
Product information and expiration date
for your car seat and car seat base:

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Orbit Baby G5 Car Seat Base
Orbit Baby G5 Infant Car Seat
Serial Number
Serial Number
Date Manufactured
Date Manufactured
Expiration Date
Expiration Date

Registering Your Products and Recall Information
Child restraints could be recalled for safety reasons. You must register this
restraint to be reached in a recall. Send your name, address, e-mail address
if available, and the restraint’s model number and manufacturing date to
Orbit Baby, P.O. Box 699,Ventura CA 93002 by using the enclosed prepaid
post card, or call 1-888-829-8427, or register online at www.orbitbabyusa.
com/register. For recall information, call the U.S. Government’s Vehicle
Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY: 1-800-424- 9153), or go to www.
NHTSA.gov. For recall information in Canada call Transport Canada at
1-800-333-0510 or go to www.tc.gc.ca.
log onto :
log mail :
log call :
log e-mail:
www.orbitbabyusa.com/register
Orbit Baby, P.O. Box 699 Ventura CA 93002
1-888-829-8427
[email protected]
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For customers in the United States:
For recall information in the United States:
Call Orbit Baby Customer Service at 1-888-829-8427 or write to
[email protected]
Call the U.S. Government’s Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1–888–327–4236
(TTY:1–800–424–9153).
Visit the National Highway Trafc Safety Administration’s website at
www.NHTSA.gov.
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Before You Begin
Important Warnings 17
Weight and Height Recommendations for Your Child 21
Choosing a Vehicle Seating Location 22
Choosing an Installation Method
Overview 26
Installing with the LATCH/UAS Anchorage System
Need Help Securing Your Car Seat and Car Seat Base?
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Usage Recommendations
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Important Warnings
WARNING
Death or Serious Injury Can Occur
FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS AND THE
PRODUCT LABELS CAN RESULT IN SERIOUS INJURY OR
DEATH TO YOUR CHILD.
To avoid serious injury or death, proper use is required. DO
NOT let others install or use the car seat or car seat base
without reading all the instructions rst.
Keep this instruction manual for future use.
Store it inside the rear pocket of the car seat. If the instruction manual is missing,
visit www.orbitbabyusa.com support to download a copy. U.S. customers can
email [email protected] or call 1-888-829-8427 for a replacement.
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Important Warnings cont’d
WARNING
Death or Serious Injury Can Occur
If using the car seat base, securely install it in the vehicle either with
the vehicle’s LATCH/UAS anchorage system or the vehicle seat belt,
and then lock the car seat onto the car seat base, as shown in this
manual. Always check the security of your car seat installation by pulling side
to side, and front to back on the car seat base belt guides or the car seat
carry handles. The car seat base or car seat should not move more than 2.5
cm (1 in) in any direction.
If not properly secured, 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 car seat or car seat base are not properly installed or if your child
is not properly secured in the car seat.
Car seat and car seat base must be secured at all times, even when
not occupied. The car seat and seat base must be rmly secured to the
vehicle by means of a LATCH/USA or vehicle seat belt, as applicable for the
type of system and the seating location in which the system is to be installed.
Unsecured items can cause injury in a sharp turn, sudden stop, or crash.
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WARNING
Death or Serious Injury Can Occur
Use the car seat only with children who weigh between 1.8-13.6 kg
(4-30 pounds), whose height is between 48-81cm (19-32 inches),
whose shoulders are above the lowest set of shoulder slots, and who
can be properly secured in the restraint harness. Ensure the restraint
harness is properly sized and can be snugly adjusted to your child.
To prevent ejection or breathing difculties, proper recline is required.
When installing the car seat on the car seat base, check the level of the car
seat base, as shown in this manual. When installing the car seat without the
car seat base, check the level of the car seat, as shown in this manual.
Never leave your child unattended in the car seat.
SUFFOCATION HAZARD: The car seat can roll over on soft surfaces and
suffocate child. NEVER place the car seat on beds, sofas or other soft
surfaces.
PROPERLY SECURE THE RESTRAINT HARNESS. Child MUST be
secured properly by the restraint harness at all times, whenever the car seat
is used in a vehicle or outside of a vehicle.
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Important Warnings cont’d
WARNING
Death or Serious Injury Can Occur
STRANGULATION HAZARD: Children have STRANGLED in loose or
partially buckled harness straps. Fully restrain the child even when carrier
is used outside the vehicle. Never leave a child in the car seat with straps
loose or undone.
FALL HAZARD: Child’s movement can slide the car seat. NEVER place the
car seat near edges of counter tops, tables, or other elevated surfaces.
Do not modify your car seat or car seat base. Only use products and
accessories approved by Orbit Baby to ensure the safety of your child.
Follow the accompanying instruction manuals for these products and ac-
cessories carefully. Contact Orbit Baby for replacement parts.
Do not allow any re-use of the car seat or car seat base after a
motor vehicle collision of any kind. A collision can cause damage to
the child restraint that you cannot see. Contact Orbit Baby regarding the
After-Impact Exchange Program.
Do not use the car seat if any component is damaged, broken,
or missing parts.
Do not use this car seat in a shopping cart.
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