Graco PD141229A User Manual [en, es]

Graco:

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.

>2010 Graco PD141229A 4/10 US

Table of Contents

Registration Information

For Recall Information........................................3

If You Need Help

Parts List...............................................................5

Warnings to Parents and Other Users.... 6-8

Assembling the Booster Seat..........................9-10

Assembling the Back Support
Weight and Height Limits

Vehicle Seat Location Requirements................19

Vehicle Seat Belt Requirements

SAFE Vehicle Belt Systems...............................20

UNSAFE Vehicle Belt Systems
Using your Graco Booster Seat

Booster Seat Positions........................................25

Securing your Child in Vehicle
Adjusting the Head Support
Removing the Back Support (on certain

models) to Use as Backless Booster

Securing Child in Vehicle with

Shoulder Belt Positioning Clip..................32-35

Airplane Use
Cupholders

Instruction Sheet Storage..................................37

Care and Maintenance.................................37-38

Body Support (on certain models)
Head Support Wings

Replacement Parts

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Registration Information

Model Number:
Manufactured on:
Purchase Date:

Register Your Booster Seat

Please fill in the above information. The model

number and manufactured on (date) ean be found

on a label underneath your booster seat. Fill out the
prepaid registration posteard attaehed to the seat
eover and mail it today.

Child restraints eould be reealled for safety reasons.
You must register this restraint to be reaehed in a
reeall. Send your name, address, and the restraint’s
model number and manufaetured date to:

Graco Children’s Products Inc.

150 Oaklands Blvd.

Exton, PA, 19341
or call 1-800-345-4109
or register online at
http://www.gracobaby.com/carseatregistration

For 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 orwww.gracobaby.com

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If You Need Help

Please eontaet our Customer Serviee Department
with any questions you may have eoneeming parts,
use, or maintenanee. When you eontaet us, please
have your produet’s model number ready so that
we may help you effieiently. This number ean be
found on a stieker on the underside of your booster
seat.

1-800-345-4109 or www.gracobaby.com

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Parts List

Adult assembly required.

Tool required: Philips screwdriver

Height adjustment screw (2)

On certain models

Left / right armrests

Shoulder belt

positioning clip

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Head support

Armrest covers

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Lower back support

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Body Support

Warnings to Parents and

Other Users

AWARNING

NO BOOSTER SEAT CAN GUARANTEE
PROTECTION EROM INJURY. HOWEVER,
PROPER USE OE THIS BOOSTER SEAT
REDUCES THE RISK OE SERIOUS INJURY
OR DEATH TO YOUR CHIUD.

DO NOT INSTAUU OR USE THIS
BOOSTER SEAT UNTIE YOU READ AND
UNDERSTAND THE INSTRUCTIONS IN
THIS MANUAU AND IN YOUR VEHICUE
OWNER’S MANUAU. DO NOT let others
install or use the booster seat unless they
understand how to use it.

EAIUURE TO PROPERUY USE THIS
BOOSTER SEAT INCREASES THE RISK OE
SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH IN A SHARP
TURN, SUDDEN STOP OR CRASH. Your
ehild ean be injured in a vehiele even if you are
not in a erash. Sudden braking and sharp turns ean
injure your ehild if the booster seat is not properly
installed or if your ehild is not properly seeured in
the booster seat.

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NEVER PLACE THIS BOOSTER SEAT IN A
VEHICLE SEATING LOCATION THAT HAS
AN AIR BAG. If an air bag
inflates, 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 SAEER WHEN PROPERLY
RESTRAINED IN REAR VEHICLE
SEATING POSITIONS, RATHER THAN
ERONT 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 AETER
AN ACCIDENT OE 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 IE IT HAS
DAMAGED OR MISSING PARTS. DO NOT
use a cut, frayed or damaged vehicle seat belt.

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

THIS CHIUD RESTRAINT CONEORMS to all
applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
and is certified for use in motor vehicles. This
restraint is NOT certified 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.

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Assembling the Booster Seat

Step 1.

Insert armrest into base
as shown nntil bnttons
snap into slots on side of

base (Ql.

Step 2.

Select the desired
armrest height for yonr
child, then insert the
height adjnstment

screw (21 and tighten.
Repeat for other
armrest.

Step 3.

To adjnst armrests,
remove screw and press
in bntton on side of base
as shown to raise or
lower Reinsert screw
and tighten.

CHECK to make snre
armrests are secnrely
attached by polling np
on them.

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Step 4.

Slip armrest covers

(on certain models)
onto armrests as shown.

Step 5.

Yonr Graco booster seat
is now ready to nse. See
page 32, “Secnring

Child in Vehicle with

Shonlder Belt
Positioning Clip”.

FOR MODELS with a
back snpport continne
on to Step 6.

Assembling the Back Support

(on certain models)

Step 6.

On certain models, your lower back support pad may
not be attached to the back support. Place lower back

support pad around edges of support as shown. Then
fasten lower elastic strap to the metal hook on the other

side of the seat pad. If your lower back support pad is
already attached go to Step 6a.

Step 6a.

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

Step 7.

Squeeze red adjustment button and slide two pieces
together until they snap into place (01.

CHECK to make sure two pieces are securely snapped
together by pulling on them.

Step 8.

Attach elastic strap to metal hook on other side of seat
pad as shown (3^ • If your elastic strap is already
attached you can skip to Step 9.

Step 9.

Flip seat over and insert the fabric from the head

snpport nndemeath the fabric on the lower back snpport
as shown

To make insertion of fabric easier, slide the npper and
lower back pieces apart by sqneezing the red adjnstment

Step 10.

Attach backrest to base. “U”-shaped hooks on bottom
of backrest will interlock with bars on base .

Make snre that no part of the seat covering interferes
when attaching backrest to the base.

Step 11.

Once backrest is securely attached to the base, push
backrest up as shown(0l.

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Step 12.

Your Graco booster

seat is now ready to use.

See page 22-29, “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 yonr child’s size may increase the
risk of serions injnry 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)

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• the shoulder belt MUST lay

across child’s shoulders in red
zone as shown in (Ql 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 inehes

(101 and 145 em) in height, and

• the shoulder belt MUST ©

lay aeross ehild’s shoulders
in red zone as shown in ©
and the lap portion is positioned
low on the ehilds hips, and

• when sitting on the booster

seat, your ehild’s ears are
below the top of the vehiele
seat eushion / head rest.

Your Graeo booster seat ean be
used with or without the baek

support (on eertain models) as

long as the above requirements are met.

Vehicle Seat Location Requirements

AWARNING

IMPROPER PLACEMENT OF THE BOOSTER

SEAT INCREASES THE RISK OF SERIOUS

INJURY OR DEATH. Some seating positions in

yonr vehicle may NOT be safe for this booster seat.

Some vehicles do not have any seating positions
that can be nsed safely with the booster seat. If yon
are not snre where to place the booster seat in yonr
vehicle, consnlt yonr vehicle owner’s mannal or call

Graco Children's Prodncts 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,
this position is often equipped with a lap belt only
and cannot be used. .

The vehicle seat MUST face forward.

Vehicle Seat Belt Requirements

AWARNING

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, IE

the seat location meets

all other requirements
of these instructions

and those in your vehicle
owner's manual.

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 vehiele
belts that are attaehed to
the door in any way or
that move along a traek
to automatieally
surround the passenger
when the door is elosed.

Using your Graco Booster Seat

AWARNING

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.

WARNING: Use only
the vehicle’s lap and

shonlder belt system
when restraining the child
in this booster seat

NEVER nse a vehicle
lap-only belt across front
of child

AWARNING

Vehicle belts MUST lay
flat against child and
MUST not be twisted.

DO NOT nse shonlder

belt loose or positioned
nnder child’s arm

DO NOT position vehicle

belt over top of the
armrests (0^. It mnst pass
nndemeath the armrests.

Make sure vehiele belt
is NOT twisted.

Lap portion of
lap/shoulder belt MUST
be low and snug on bips,
just touebing tbigbs.

DO NOT allow child

to slide down in booster

seat (E|l.
If child will not keep

vehicle restraint properly
positioned, DO NOT
nse this booster seat.
Use a different child
restraint system.

AWARNING

Vehicle seat headrest
must not interfere
with booster seat head

support. The front of
booster seat
MUST NOT hang over
front of vehicle seat(0>.

The back of the booster

seat MUST fit tight
against the vehicle seat
back as shown(Q).