Owner Letter (1993-1996)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT AIR BAG SAFETY

TO: Owners of 1993-1996 Chrysler Corporation Vehicles Equipped with Passenger Air Bags

We recently sent you a letter providing important air bag safety information. That letter was intended to help you understand how to make you and your passengers, especially children, as safe as possible in your vehicle. We explained that, while air bags save lives and are very effective supplemental safety devices, they can cause harm in some circumstances.

We emphasized the importance of wearing lap and shoulder belts properly. We also told you that the child deaths in vehicles equipped with passenger air bags occurred to children riding in the front passenger seat. Almost without exception, these children were not restrained or were improperly restrained. And, we provided four simple steps you can take to minimize the risk of harm from a deploying air bag.

This letter provides you with self-stick labels for each of your vehicle's sun visors. The labels provide clear reminders of potential air bag dangers and suggest the best way to keep all your passengers, especially children, safe. All new vehicles equipped with passenger air bags built on or after February 25, 1997 will have these labels as required by U.S. federal law. Please install them. By doing so, you, your passengers and any other operator of your vehicle will have convenient, easy-to-read instructions about air bag safety. Instructions for mounting the labels on your vehicle's sun visors appear on the back of the labels. Please follow them carefully. To ensure proper bonding of the labels, please warm up your interior to at least 50° Fahrenheit.

As a reminder, the following are the four simple steps you can follow to minimize the risk of harm from a deploying air bag:

1. Children 12 years old and under should ride buckled up in a rear seat:

- Infants in rear-facing child safety seats (designed for children up to one year or 20 pounds) should NEVER ride in the front seat of a vehicle with a passenger side air bag. An air bag deployment can cause severe injury or death to infants in this position.

- Children (up to 60 pounds) should be secured in the rear seat in child safety seats or booster seats. If the booster seat is not equipped with a front shield, the child should be seated in either rear outboard seat area to take advantage of the added safety of the available lap and shoulder belt.

- Older children who do not use child safety seats or booster seats should ride properly buckled up in the rear seat, in the outboard seat area if possible.

- Never allow children to slide the shoulder belt behind them or under their arm;

2. All occupants should wear their lap and shoulder belts properly;

3. Driver and front passenger seats should be moved back as far as practical to allow the air bags room to inflate, and;

4. You should read your vehicle owner's manual and instructions provided with your child safety or booster seat to make sure you are using it correctly.

Again, we hope you never have an accident. But if you do, these important steps will increase the safety of you and your passengers.