Dodge Charger: OCCUPANT RESTRAINT SYSTEMS / Infant And Child Restraints
Safety experts recommend that children ride rear-facing in the vehicle until
they are two years old or until they reach either the height or weight limit of
their rear-facing child restraint. Two types of child restraints can be used rear-facing:
infant carriers and convertible child seats.
The infant carrier is only used rear-facing in the vehicle. It is recommended
for children from birth until they reach the weight or height limit of the infant
carrier. Convertible child seats can be used either rear-facing or forward-facing
in the vehicle. Convertible child seats often have a higher weight limit in the
rear-facing direction than infant carriers do, so they can be used rear-facing by
children who have outgrown their infant carrier but are still less than at least
two years old. Children should remain rear-facing until they reach the highest weight
or height allowed by their convertible child seat.
WARNING!
- Never place a rear-facing child restraint in front of an air bag.
A deploying passenger front air bag can cause death or serious injury to a child
12 years or younger, including a child in a rear-facing child restraint.
- Never install a rear-facing child restraint in the front seat of a
vehicle. Only use a rear-facing child restraint in the rear seat. If the vehicle
does not have a rear seat, do not transport a rear-facing child restraint in
that vehicle.
Children who are two years old or who have outgrown their rear-facing convertible
child seat can ride forward-facing in the vehicle. Forward-facing child seats and
convertible child seats used in the forward-facing direction are for children who
are over two years old or who have outgrown the rear-facing weight or height limit
of their rear-facing convertible child seat...
Other information:
Before programming a device to one of your HomeLink® buttons, you must determine
whether the device has a rolling code or non-rolling code.
Rolling Code Devices
To determine if your device has a rolling code, a good indicator is its manufacturing
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Children who are large enough to wear the shoulder belt comfortably, and whose
legs are long enough to bend over the front of the seat when their back is against
the seatback, should use the seat belt in a rear seat. Use this simple 5-step test
to decide whether the child can use the vehicle’s seat belt alone:
Can the child sit all the way back against the back of the vehicle seat?
Do the child’s knees bend comfortably over the front of the vehicle seat
– while the child is still sitting all the way back?
Does the shoulder belt cross the child’s shoulder between the neck and arm?
Is the lap part of the belt as low as possible, touching the child’s thighs
and not the stomach?
Can the child stay seated like this for the whole trip?
If the answer to any of these questions was “no,” then the child still needs
to use a booster seat in this vehicle...