Graco Booster Seat User Manual

Booster Seat

Owner’s Manual

READ THIS MANUAL

Do not install or use this car seat until you read and

understand the instructions in this manual.

FAILURE TO PROPERLY USE THIS CAR SEAT

INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY

OR DEATH IN A SUDDEN STOP OR CRASH.

Table of Contents

Registration Information 3 Recall Information 3 If You Need Help/Replacement parts 4 Parts List 5 Warnings to Parents and Other Users 6-8 Assembling the Back Support 9-13 Weight and Height Limits 14-15 Vehicle Seat Location Requirements 16 Vehicle Seat Belt Requirements 17 SAFE Vehicle Belt Systems 17 UNSAFE Vehicle Belt Systems 18 Using your Graco Booster Seat 19-21 Booster Seat Positions 22 Securing your Child in Vehicle 23-26 Adjusting the Head Support 27 Removing the Back Support to Use as Backless Booster (on certain models) 28 Securing Child in Vehicle with Shoulder Belt Positioning Clip 29-32 Additional Information 33 Airplane Use 33 Cupholders 33 Instruction Sheet Storage 34 Care and Maintenance 34-35 To Clean Seat Mesh 36

Registration Information

Model Number: Manufactured on: Purchase Date: Register Your Booster Seat

Please ll in the above information. The model

number and manufactured on (date) can be found on a label underneath your booster seat. Fill out the prepaid registration postcard attached to the seat cover and mail it today. Child restraints could be recalled for safety reasons. You must register this restraint to be reached in a recall.

Send your name, address, model number and

manufacturing date to:

Graco Children’s Products Inc.

150 Oaklands Blvd.

Exton, PA, 19341

or call 1-800-345-4109

or register online at: www.gracobaby.com

Recall Information

• Call the U.S. Government’s Vehicle Safety Hotline at

1-888-327-4236 (TTY: 1-800-424-9153)

• or go to http://www.NHTSA.gov

• Graco: 1-800-345-4109 or www.gracobaby.com

If You Need Help

Please contact our Customer Service Department with any questions you may have concerning parts, use, maintenance or warranty information. When you contact us, please have your product’s model number and manufactured

on (date) ready so that we may help you efciently. This

number can be found on a sticker on the underside of your booster seat.

1-800-345-4109

www.gracobaby.com

Parts List

Adult assembly required.

Base

On Certain Models

Shoulder belt

positioning clip

Head Support

Lower Back

Support

Warnings to Parents and Other Users

• NO BOOSTER SEAT CAN GUARANTEE PROTECTION FROM INJURY. HOWEVER, PROPER USE OF THIS BOOSTER SEAT REDUCES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH TO YOUR CHILD.

• DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THIS BOOSTER SEAT UNTIL YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS MANUAL AND IN YOUR VEHICLE OWNER’S MANUAL. DO

NOT let others install or use the booster seat unless they understand how to use it.

• FAILURE TO PROPERLY USE THIS

BOOSTER SEAT INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH IN A SHARP TURN, SUDDEN STOP OR CRASH. 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 booster seat is not properly installed or if your child is not properly secured in the booster seat.

• NEVER PLACE THIS BOOSTER SEAT IN

A VEHICLE SEATING LOCATION THAT HAS AN AIR BAG. If an air bag

inates, it can hit the child and

booster seat with great force and cause serious injury or death to your child. Refer to your vehicle owner’s manual for information about air bags and booster seat installation.

• According to accident statistics, CHILDREN ARE

SAFER WHEN PROPERLY RESTRAINED IN REAR VEHICLE SEATING POSITIONS, RATHER THAN FRONT SEATING POSITIONS.

For a vehicle with a front passenger air bag, refer to your vehicle owner’s manual as well as these instructions for booster seat installation.

• NEVER LEAVE YOUR CHILD UNATTENDED.

• NEVER LEAVE A BOOSTER SEAT UNSECURED IN YOUR VEHICLE. An unsecured booster seat can be thrown around and may injure occupants in a sharp turn, sudden stop or crash. Remove it or make sure that it is securely belted in the vehicle.

• REPLACE THE BOOSTER SEAT AFTER AN ACCIDENT OF ANY KIND. An accident can cause damage to the booster seat that you cannot see.

• DO NOT MODIFY YOUR BOOSTER SEAT or use any accessories or parts supplied by other manufacturers.

• NEVER USE BOOSTER SEAT IF IT HAS DAMAGED OR MISSING PARTS. DO NOT use a cut, frayed or damaged vehicle seat belt.

• THE BOOSTER SEAT CAN BECOME VERY HOT IF LEFT IN THE SUN. Contact with these parts can burn your child’s skin. Always touch the surface of any metal or plastic parts before putting your child in the booster seat.

• THIS CHILD RESTRAINT CONFORMS to all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards

and is certied for use in motor vehicles. This restraint is NOT certied for use in aircraft because

there is no shoulder belt available.

• NEVER GIVE THIS BOOSTER SEAT to someone else without also giving them this manual.

• NEVER USE A SECOND-HAND BOOSTER SEAT or a booster seat whose history you do not know.

• NEVER USE THIS BOOSTER SEAT without the armrests attached to the base.

Assembling the Back Support

(on certain models)

Step 1.

Flip over head support and lower back support as shown .

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Step 2.

Squeeze red adjustment handle and slide two pieces together until they snap into place . CHECK to make sure two pieces are securely snapped together by pulling on them.



CLICK!

Step 3

Attach elastic strap to the hook on the fabric, on the other side of seat pad .



Step 4.

Flip seat over and insert the fabric from the head support underneath the fabric on the lower back support as shown .

To make insertion of fabric easier, slide the upper and lower back pieces apart by squeezing the red adjustment handle.



Step 5.

Attach back support to base. “U”-shaped hooks on bottom of back support will interlock with bars on base . Make sure that no part of the seat covering interferes when attaching back support to the base.



Step 6

Once backrest is securely attached to the base, push backrest up as shown .



Step 7

Your Graco booster seat is now ready to use. See page 19-26, “Using your Graco Booster Seat” and “Securing Your Child in Vehicle”.

Weight and Height Limits

FAILURE TO USE booster seat in a manner appropriate for your child’s size may increase the risk of serious injury or death.

To use this Graco booster seat, your child MUST meet ALL of the following requirements:

With back support (approximately 3 to 10 years old):

• weigh between 30 and 100 lbs. (mass between 13.6 and 45 kg), and

• are between 38 and 57 inches (96 and 145 cm) in height, and

• the shoulder belt MUST lay across child’s shoulders in red zone as shown in  and the lap portion is positioned low on the childs hips, and

• the child’s ears are below top of booster seat. If tops of ears are above top of seat, your child is too large for the booster seat



Without back support (approximately 4 to 10 years old) :

• weigh between 40 and 100 lbs. (mass between 18 and 45 kg), and

• are between 40 and 57 inches (101 and 145 cm) in height, and

• the shoulder belt MUST lay across child’s shoulders in red zone as shown in  and the lap portion is positioned low on the childs hips, and

• when sitting on the booster seat, your child’s ears are below the top of the vehicle seat cushion / head rest.

Vehicle Seat Location Requirements

IMPROPER PLACEMENT OF THE BOOSTER SEAT INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH. Some seating positions in

your vehicle may NOT be safe for this booster seat. Some vehicles do not have any seating positions that can be used safely with the booster seat. If you are not sure where to place the booster seat in your vehicle, consult your vehicle owner’s manual or call Graco Children’s Products Inc., at 1-800-345-4109.

• Children are safer when properly restrained in rear vehicle seating positions. Whenever possible secure the Graco booster seat in the center position of the seat directly behind the front seats. However, if this position is equipped with a lap belt only it cannot be used.

• The vehicle seat MUST face forward.

Vehicle Seat Belt Requirements

MANY SEAT BELT SYSTEMS ARE NOT SAFE TO USE WITH THE BOOSTER SEAT.

Pay careful attention to these systems; some of the seat belts that are NOT safe to use look very much like seat belts that are safe to use. If you are unsure, consult your vehicle owner’s manual or call Graco Children’s Products Inc., at 1-800-345-4109.

SAFE VEHICLE SEAT BELT SYSTEM

ONLY A LAP/SHOULDER BELT SYSTEM CAN BE USED WITH THIS BOOSTER SEAT.

UNSAFE Vehicle Seat Belt Systems

DO NOT USE ANY

OF THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE BELT SYSTEMS.

• NEVER use a lap-only belt.

• NEVER use a

Passive Restraint Lap or Shoulder Belt Mounted on Door

• NEVER use a Passive Restraint Lap Belt with Motorized Shoulder Belt

NEVER use vehicle

belts that are attached to the door in any way or that move along a track to automatically surround the passenger when the door is closed.

Using Your Graco Booster Seat

FAILURE TO PROPERLY SECURE YOUR CHILD AND THE BOOSTER SEAT IN YOUR VEHICLE INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH IN THE EVENT OF A SHARP TURN, SUDDEN STOP OR CRASH.

Use only the vehicle’s lap and shoulder belt system when restraining the child in this booster seat .

NEVER use a vehicle lap-only belt across front of child .





DO NOT place vehicle shoulder belt behind child’s back .



Vehicle belts MUST lay at

against child and MUST not be twisted.

DO NOT use shoulder belt loose or positioned under child’s arm .

DO NOT position vehicle belt over top of the armrests . It must pass underneath the armrests.

Make sure vehicle belt is NOT twisted.

Lap portion of lap/shoulder belt MUST be low and snug on hips, just touching thighs.

DO NOT allow child to slide

down in booster seat .

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

If child will not keep vehicle restraint properly positioned, DO NOT use this booster seat. Use a different child restraint system.



Vehicle seat headrest must not interfere with booster seat head support . The front of booster seat MUST NOT hang over front of vehicle seat .



The back of the booster seat

MUST t at against the

vehicle seat back as shown .





Booster Seat Positions

Your booster has two positions as shown.

 Upright

 Reclined

The back of the booster seat MUST t at against the vehicle seat back as shown in  in

either the rst or second

position.

DO NOT USE

booster seat beyond reclined position .

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