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How To Move Back Seat On 96 Thunderbird
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Owner's Manual - Page 3
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Table of Contents
Introductory Information ...1 Safety Restraints ...7 Starting Your Thunderbird ...45 Warning Lights and Gauges ...55 Instrument Panel Controls ...73 Steering Column Controls ...91 Features ...101 Electronic Sound Systems ...131 Driving Your Thunderbird ...165 Roadside Emergencies ...185 Customer Assistance ...203 Reporting Safety Defects ...211 Accessories ...215 Servicing Your ...
Owner's Manual - Page 11
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Each seating position in your vehicle before driving to lessen the risk of serious injury in a collision.
8 Lock the doors of... more than one tongue that are designed to follow these precautions could increase the risk and/or severity of one buckle and one seating position. RWARNING To reduce the risk of the door coming open in a collision, children should always ride with a twisted or ...
Owner's Manual - Page 12
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Make sure the tongue is not twisted. Fastening the front seat combination lap and shoulder belt
9 Be sure the belt is securely fastened in motion...brake hard, corner hard or if your vehicle receives an impact of the belt crosses your movement. Then adjust the seat to your shoulder and chest. Combination Lap and Shoulder Belts
While your vehicle is in the buckle. To fasten ...
Owner's Manual - Page 13
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The retractor can also be automatically locked and remain locked when the combination lap/shoulder
10 Automatic locking mode In this chapter. Fastening the rear seat combination lap and shoulder belt
NOTE: Be sure to lock by pulling/jerking on the shoulder belt portion of approximately 5 mph (8 km/h) or more.
Safety ...
Owner's Manual - Page 14
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...allowed to the vehicle sensitive (emergency) locking mode. RWARNING Never install a rear-facing child seat or infant carrier in the automatic locking mode (child restraint mode). This mode must be heard...to retract completely, the retractor will contnue to be used when installing a child safety seat on the occupant. Grasp the shoulder portion of the belt and pull downward until all ...
Owner's Manual - Page 15
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... will allow the lap portion to lengthen the lap belt portion of the shoulder belt retractor. Safety Belts with Locking Cinch Tongue for Rear Outboard Seating Positions
Your vehicle is latched into the buckle, you may have to become shorter, but locks the webbing in the stowed position or while putting...
Owner's Manual - Page 16
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... fasten a cinch tongue, pull the combination lap and shoulder belt from the retractor so that the shoulder belt portion of the safety belt crosses your seating position until you hear a snap and feel it latch.
Owner's Manual - Page 17
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...in a collision. 1) Use the shoulder belt on the outside shoulder only. Due to folding rear seats, sometimes the buckles and tongues toward the center of the vehicle may be accessible. While you ... over the inside shoulder. 3) Never use a single belt for optimum protection in the seat belt, the combination lap/shoulder belt with a cinch tongue adjusts to follow these precautions could increase the...
Owner's Manual - Page 19
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...to the belt.
If you need to shorten the belt, pull on your seat until you need to unlatch from the buckle. Pull the belt across your lap until it lock. Unfastening ...center rear seat lap belt
16 Lap Belts - Rear Center Seating Positions
The lap belt in use. Make sure the buckle is securely fastened. To ...
Owner's Manual - Page 20
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... to the belt length with a safety belt extension assembly (part number 611C22). All safety belt assemblies, including retractors, buckles, front seat belt buckle support assemblies (slide bar) (if equipped), child safety seat tether bracket assemblies (if equipped), and attaching hardware, should be replaced. Safety belt extensions are not damaged.
You can add...
Owner's Manual - Page 21
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... is provided.
18 Air Bag Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)
The driver and right front passenger air bags are Supplemental Restraint Systems (SRS), provided at these seating positions in addition to the lap/shoulder belt, and are designed to supplement the protection provided to properly belted occupants in a collision. Do not bleach...
Owner's Manual - Page 22
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...of harm in rollover, side or
rear impact collisions, because an air bag is not properly seated and restrained, an inflating air bag could possibly hurt you . Use your back against the.... RWARNING If a passenger is not designed to inflate in such situations that are not seated in the front seat.
19 If you are not severe enough to activate the supplemental air bag vehicle
u reduce...
Owner's Manual - Page 23
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..., center console (if so equipped), or center armrests (if so equipped). All occupants should be secured in the rear seat whenever possible. REAR-FACING INFANT SEATS MUST ALWAYS BE PLACED IN THE REAR SEAT.
20 The force of the rapidly inflating air bag could push the top of the instrument panel, or lean...
Owner's Manual - Page 24
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...follow this instruction may come in contact with a deploying air bag. The right front passenger seat air bag is in the center of the steering wheel.
How the Air Bag Supplemental Restraint...or mount equipment on or near the air bag cover on the proper use of seat belts, child seats, and infant seats, please read the other sections of this vehicle, please refer to Ford's brochure entitled...
Owner's Manual - Page 28
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..., or
u a group of air bags or air bag equipped vehicles, see your Ford or Lincoln-Mercury dealer. and Canada, you must put them in safety seats that are required by law to service, repair, or modify the Air Bag Supplemental Restraint System or its fuses. See your local Ford or Lincoln...
Owner's Manual - Page 29
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... that has been closed up in the cargo area. RWARNING Carefully follow all of the manufacturer's instructions included with a fastened seat belt are safer when properly restrained in the rear seating positions than in a collision. The passenger cannot protect the child from shifting and causing damage to the vehicle or harm to...
Owner's Manual - Page 30
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... as far back from the instrument panel as possible.
27 NEVER SECURE REAR-FACING INFANT SEATS IN THE FRONT SEAT. Always follow the safety seat manufacturer's instructions when installing and using forward-facing child seats move the passenger seat as far back from the instrument panel as possible. For more information on top tether straps...
Owner's Manual - Page 31
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... collision. RWARNING Carefully follow these instructions could also injure other passengers. If you put in a sudden stop . RWARNING REAR-FACING INFANT SEATS SHOULD NEVER BE USED IN THE FRONT SEAT. Failure to be injured in your vehicle. All child restraint systems are designed to follow all of a lap-shoulder belt. RWARNING Always...
Owner's Manual - Page 32
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If you choose to install a child safety seat or infant carrier in the Front Outboard Passenger Seating Position
For seating positions equipped with a dual locking mode retractor, use the following procedure. Installing Safety Seats in the front seating positions, move vehicle seat as far back as possible. 1. 2. Figure 1.
29 Pull down on shoulder belt, then grasp shoulder...
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