Graco 4EVER User Manual

PD276106E 4/14

www.gracobaby.com

Do not install or use this

child restraint until you

read and understand

the instructions in this

manual.

FAILURE TO PROPERLY

USE THIS

CHILD RESTRAINT

INCREASES THE

RISK OF SERIOUS

INJURY OR DEATH IN

A SUDDEN STOP OR

CRASH.

Important Pages 6-16

1-A Safe Use Checklist 1-B Before You Begin Register This Car Seat

If You Need Help Certification Car Seat’s Useful Life Vehicle Seat Protection Warm Weather Use

1-C Safety Warnings 1-D Right Mode of Use

Features Pages 17-23

2-A Car Seat Features

Rear-Facing Use Pages 24-38

3-A Rear-Facing Checklist 3-B Prepare to Install LATCH Rear-Facing

Rear-Facing Continued

3-C Installing With LATCH Straps 3-D Installing With Vehicle Seat Belt

Forward-Facing Use Pages 39-53

4-A Forward-Facing Checklist 4-B Prepare to Install LATCH Forward-Facing 4-C Installing Using the LATCH Strap 4-D Installing Using the Vehicle Seat Belts

Belt-Positioning Booster Use Pages 54-68

5-A Booster Seat Checklist 5-B Prepare for Backed Booster Use 5-C Install Backed Booster 5-D Prepare Backless Booster Use 5-E Install Backless Booster

Securing Child Pages 69-81

6-A Securing Child 5-Point Harness 6-B Securing Child Backed Booster 6-C Securing Child Backless Booster 6-D Securing With Belt-Positioning Clip

Care & Cleaning Pages 82-86

7-A Cleaning Seat Pad 7-B Cleaning Crotch Buckle 7-C Cleaning Harness and LATCH Straps 7-D Accessories

Additional Information Pages 87-99

8-A Choosing Vehicle Seat Location 8-B Unsafe Vehicle Seat Locations 8-C What is LATCH?

Additional Information Continued

8-D Choosing LATCH or Seat Belts 8-E How to Remove LATCH and Tether 8-F Vehicle Seat Belts

1-A Welcome to the Graco Family!

Your child’s safety depends on you. No car seat can guarantee protection from injury in every situation, but proper use helps reduce the risk of serious injury or death.

Even if this car seat seems easy to figure out on your own, you must follow the detailed instructions in this instruction manual to ensure the steps below are performed correctly.

SAFE USE CHECKLIST

Choose the correct mode of use for your child, depending on their weight.

• Rear-Facing: 4-40 lbs. (1.8-18 kg)

• Forward-Facing: 20-65 (9-30 kg) 49 in. (125 cm) or less

• Booster Use: With back: 30-100 lbs. (14-45 kg) 38-57 in. (96-145 cm) Without back: 40-120 lbs. (18.1-54 kg) 40-57 in. (101-145 cm)

• Children less than 20 lbs (9 kg) MUST use this car seat rear-facing.

For More Information…

Review section 1-D.

SAFE USE CHECKLIST

For More Information…

Choose a suitable location for this car seat in your vehicle.

• Never place a child rear-facing in a seating position with an active frontal airbag.

• You MUST use a lap and shoulder vehicle seat belt when using as a booster seat.

Install this car seat tightly in your vehicle.

• Car seat should not move at the belt path more side, front to back when installed rear facing or forward-facing.

• Use the top tether strap when using forward-facing.

than 1 in. (2.5 cm) from side to

Review section 8-A.

Review sections: Rear-Facing 3-C or 3-D. Forward-Facing 4-C or 4-D. Booster 5-C or 5-D

Important

SAFE USE CHECKLIST

Secure your child tightly in this car seat

• Rear-Facing: Harness strap height MUST be at or just below top of child’s shoulders. Top of head must be 1 in. below the headrest adjustment lever.

• Forward-Facing: Harness strap height MUST be at or just above top of child’s shoulders. Top of child’s ears below top of headrest.

• Harness strap snug enough you cannot pinch the strap.

• Chest clip at armpit level.

• Booster Use: shoulder belt should lie between child’s neck and edge of shoulder and the lap belt should lay low on the child’s hips.

For More Information…

Review section 6.

1-B Before You Begin

Please fill out the prepaid registration postcard attached to the harness and mail it in today or register online at www.gracobaby.com/ carseatregistration.

Child restraints could be recalled for safety reasons. You must register this restraint to be reached in a recall. Send your name, address, and the restraint’s model number and manufacturing date to:

Graco Children’s Products, Inc.

Attn: Customer Service

3 Glenlake Parkway Atlanta, GA 30328

or call 1-800-345-4109

or register online at

www.gracobaby.com/carseatregistration

For recall information, call the U.S. Government’s Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888327-4236 (TTY: 1–800–424–9153), or go to http://www.NHTSA.gov.

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For future reference or if you change addresses, record the model name, model number, date of manufacture and purchase date of this car seat on the below. You can find this information either on the registration card if you still have it or on the date label located on the back of the car seat.

Model Name _________________________ Model Number _______________________ Date of Manufacture __________________ Date of Purchase _____________________

If You Need Help

In the U.S.A, please contact our Customer Service Department with any questions you may have concerning parts, use, or maintenance. When you contact us, please have your product’s model number and date of manufacture ready so that we may help you efficiently. These numbers can be found on a sticker on the back side of your car seat.

For additional resources or to get your car seat checked by a child passenger safety technician, please visit the following web sites:

www.nhtsa.gov • www.seatcheck.org • www.safekids.org • www.cpsc.gov

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Certification

This child restraint meets or exceeds all applicable requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 213 for use in motor vehicles.

This child restraint is certified for use in aircraft only when used with the internal harness system.

This child restraint is NOT certified for use in aircraft when used as a booster seat because aircrafts do not have shoulder belts.

Contact the airline for their specific polices.

Car Seat’s Useful Life

STOP using this car seat and throw it away 10 years after the date of manufacture. Look for this sticker on back of the car seat.

Graco Children’s Products Inc. advises against loaning or passing along a car seat unless you know the complete history of the product. We also advise against purchasing a car seat second hand.

Important

Vehicle Seat Protection

Protect vehicle seat. Use a car seat mat, towel, or thin blanket under and behind car seat.

Warm Weather Use

Car seat parts can get very hot in the sun or warm weather. To avoid burns, always check before putting child in car seat.

1-C Safety Warnings

No car seat can guarantee protection from injury in every situation, but proper use helps reduce the risk of serious injury or death. READ THIS MANUAL

CAREFULLY.

Failure to follow these instructions and child restraint’s labels can result in child striking the vehicle’s interior during a sudden stop or crash.

! NEVER PLACE THIS CHILD RESTRAINT REAR-FACING

IN A VEHICLE SEATING LOCATION THAT HAS AN ACTIVE FRONT AIR BAG.

If an air bag inflates, it can hit the child and car seat with great force and cause serious injury or death to your child.

! Review your vehicle owner’s manual for more information

about air bags and car seat use.

! If your vehicle does not have a back seat, review your

vehicle owner’s manual.

! The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and National

Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recommends that children be rear-facing until age 2 or until they reach the maximum rear-facing height and weight rating for their seat.

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Important

! Choose the correct mode of use for the car seat depending

on your child’s size. Infants less than 20 lbs. (9 kg) MUST use this car seat rear-facing.

! Select a suitable location for the car seat in your vehicle. ! Secure car seat with a vehicle seat belt or LATCH that is

properly routed as shown in this manual.

! Vehicle seat belt system MUST hold car seat securely. Not

all vehicle seat belts can be used with a car seat.

! If vehicle seat belt does not hold car seat securely, read

“Vehicle Seat Belts” section 8-F and your vehicle owner’s manual.

! Always secure car seat with LATCH or a vehicle seat belt,

even when unoccupied. In a crash, an unsecured car seat can injure passengers.

! If car seat is in a crash, it must be replaced. DO NOT use it

again! A crash can cause unseen damage and using it again could result in serious injury or death.

! DO NOT use car seat if it is damaged or missing parts.

! DO NOT use accessories or parts other than those provided

by Graco. Their use could alter the performance of the car seat.

! DO NOT remove LATCH system from car seat. If using vehicle

seat belt to secure car seat, LATCH connectors must be stored.

! Never leave child unattended, even when sleeping. Child

may become tangled in harness straps and suffocate or strangle.

! Rear-facing car seat must be properly leveled:

• Too reclined can result in injury or ejection.

• Too upright can result in breathing difficulties.

! Never attach two LATCH connectors to one

vehicle lower anchor point unless specifically allowed by the vehicle manufacturer.

! Do not use both the vehicle belt and LATCH belts

at the same time when using the car seat rear or forward facing.

Important

1-D Right Mode of Use

4 lbs (1.8 kg)

Important

Rear-Facing with 5-Point Harness

4-20 lbs (1.8-9 kg) less than 1 year old MUST be rear-facing. 20-40 lbs (9-18 kg) CAN be rear-fcing.

Note: Preterm or low birth weight infants may be at special risk in a vehicle or aircraft. According to the AAP, these infants may suffer breathing issues if improperly reclined in a car seat. When rear-facing, use the corrected age for preemies. Graco advises that you have your physician or hospital staff evaluate your infant and recommend the proper car seat or car bed before you and your infant leave the hospital.

30 lbs

20 lbs

(14 kg)

(9 kg)

Forward-Facing with 5-Point Harness

20-40 lbs (9-18 kg) can sit upright unassisted CAN be forward-facing. 40-65 lbs (18-30 kg) SHOULD be forward-facing.

Booster Mode with Vehicle Lap/Shoulder Seat Belt

30-65 lbs (14-30 kg) CAN be in backed booster mode. 40-65 lbs (18.1-30 kg) CAN be in backless booster mode. Over 65 lbs (30 kg) MUST be in booster mode.

40 lbs (18 kg)

65 lbs (30 kg)

120 lbs

(54 kg)

2-A Install Cup Holders

Cup Holders

To attach the cup holders, match the right cup holder to the right side of the seat and the left to the left. Align the tab on the cup holder with the slot in the seat and slide down. You will

hear a “Click” when they are secured in place.

Cup Holders

Installing

2-B Car Seat Features

A B

D C

E H

Features

A Headrest/Harness Adjustment Lever

B Headrest C Booster Shoulder Belt

Guide D Headrest Infant Pillow E Infant Body Pillow F Harness Covers G Harness Straps

H Chest Clip I Buckle

J Harness Release Lever (under flap)

K Harness Adjustment Strap L Recline Handle M Seat Base N Cup Holder

Features

E C H

A Level Indicator B Top Tether Strap C LATCH Strap

D Forward-Facing Belt Path E Booster Lap Belt Path F Recline Position Indicator G Rear-Facing Belt Path

H Rear-Facing LATCH Strap Storage (under seat)

Features

A Top Tether Strap Storage B Forward-Facing LATCH

Strap Storage C Instruction Manual Storage

Features

3-A Rear-Facing

LATCH Strap

Vehicle Seat Lap/Shoulder Belt

Rear

Facing

Rear-Facing: 4-40 lbs (1.8-18 kg)

• Place car seat rear-facing in the vehicle back seat.

• Make sure LATCH strap or vehicle seat belt is routed through the rearfacing belt path marked with a blue label.

• Install this car seat tightly in your vehicle. Car seat should not move at the rear-facing belt path more than 1 in. (2.5 cm) from side to side, front to back.

• Check recline level making sure the bubble is within the blue area.

• Harness straps need to be even with or just below the top of child’s shoulders and chest clip is

at armpit level.

• Infants who weigh less than 20 lbs (9 kg) MUST be rear- facing.

• The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and NHTSA recommend that children be rearfacing until the age of 2 or until they reach the maximum rearfacing height and weight. This car seat can remain rear-facing up to 40 lbs.

NEVER place this child restraint rearfacing in a vehicle seating location that has an active front air bag.

Vehicle Seat Lap Belt

Facing

Rear

Facing

3-B Prepare to Install LATCH Rear-Facing

1. Remove LATCH Strap from Storage Location

Push in on the red buttons on the LATCH connectors and remove from storage position.

2. Recline the Car Seat

Place the car seat in 1st, 2nd or 3rd recline position.

Make Sure LATCH Strap is

in the Rear-Facing Belt Path Marked With a Blue Label

If correct, skip to section 3-C. Continue to next step if it is not.

To Move LATCH Strap to Rear-Facing Belt Path

Loosen Harness Straps

Lift up on the harness release lever while pulling out on the harness straps at the chest clip.

Facing

Rear

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Rear

Facing

5. Raise Headrest

Squeeze the red handle and lift headrest up.

6. Unsnap Pad and Expose Seat Pan

Undo the 2 snaps and pull bottom of seat pad to expose the plastic shell.

Pull LATCH Connectors Out

of Forward-Facing Belt Path

Slide Entire LATCH Strap

Along Bar to the Front of the Seat

Push Each Connector Into

the Rear-Facing Belt Path in Front of Crotch Belt

Facing

Rear

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Rear

Facing

10. Replace Seat Pad

Move headrest back to its proper position for your child.

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