Child Seat Anchor - Description

DESCRIPTION

NOTE: Sedan rear seat shown, convertible similar.






WARNING: During, and following, any child restraint anchor service, due to impact event or vehicle repair, carefully inspect all mounting hardware, tether straps and anchors for proper installation, operation, or damage. If a child restraint anchor is found damaged in any way, the anchor must be replaced. Failure to do so could result in occupant serious or fatal injury.

Vehicles manufactured for sale in the North American market are equipped with a Lower Anchors and Tether for CHildren, or LATCH child restraint anchorage system. The LATCH system provides for the installation of suitable child restraints in certain seating positions without using the standard equipment seat belt provided for that seating position. The rear seats are equipped with a fixed-position child restraint upper tether anchor and child restraint lower anchors for the two outboard seating positions only for convertible vehicles. The sedan vehicles are equipped with a fixed-position child restraint upper tether anchor for both the center and the two outboard seating positions.





There are three upper tether anchors located on the rear shelf panel, just behind the rear seat back for the sedan. The convertible has two tether anchors located behind the rear seat back on the rear shelf panel. These child tether anchors are concealed under a cover on the rear shelf panel and are easily identifiable by the ISO symbol molded onto the cover. The tether strap anchors are stamped into the rear shelf panel and are not serviceable.





The anchors are mounted on the seat hinge frame. They are each accessed from the front of their respective seats, at each side where the seat back meets the seat cushion. There is an ISO symbol just above each anchor identifying each anchor location. These lower anchors cannot be adjusted or repaired and, if faulty or damaged, they must be replaced as a unit with the seat frame.