How to unlock child seat belt
Car Seat Safety - Understanding Seat Belt Systems — Installing a Child or Infant Car Seat
hi I'm Greg Durocher from safe ride for
kids calm today I wanted to help you
understand a little bit about vehicle
seatbelt systems and how you can use
them to properly restrain your child
restraint you know your rear-facing or
your forward-facing car seat so there's
really two main principles or places
that we need to look in order to
understand the vehicle seatbelt locking
system you know as a child passenger
safety technician one of the most common
misuses that we find in vehicles is that
the vehicle seat belt isn't in a locked
mode and what happens is the parent
buckles the child restraint in and if
they don't walk the vehicle seat belt
what happens is as they drive around
town that child restraint becomes looser
and looser and maybe you've experienced
the same thing well today we're going to
teach you how to fix that so that never
happens again and your child will be
properly their safety seat will be
properly restrained if there ever is a
crash so there's two places that the
seat belt can lock one is at the latch
plate but most common these days is
actually here in the vehicles retractor
mechanism the retractor is the part of
the seat belt system that pulls in the
extra webbing now the way that we access
the locking mode is if we very slowly
pull the seat belt all the way to the
end and then in order to test and to see
if your vehicle has a switchable
retractor in other words the mode where
it goes in and out or the mode where it
only gets tighter the locked mode is to
allow about six to eight inches of
webbing back into the retractor and
you're going to be listening to see if
you are to hear if it clicks as the seat
belt goes back in that's one indication
that you have accessed that locking mode
the second is to pull gently
back on that webbing to see if it's
locked so again you allow six to eight
inches back in and then try without
jerking it to pull that webbing back out
in this vehicle has a switchable
retractor which means that the retractor
locks the vehicle seatbelt to properly
keep the child restraint tight so if
there were a child restraint here a car
seat what we would do is feed the
vehicle seat belt through either the
rear-facing or the forward-facing belt
path buckle it into the vehicle's buckle
at that point we would then pull this
all the way out to switch the retractor
allow that to go back in and pull and
tighten the child restraint into the
seat with the seat belt in that locked
mode now if in your vehicle if you pull
this out all the way to the end and you
allow the webbing to go back in and it
comes back out then you're going to look
to the latch plate to lock and we're
going to move to another vehicle to
demonstrate that okay so here we're
going to demonstrate the locking latch
plate so in order to test the latch
plate to see if the latch plate itself
is the locking mechanism in the vehicle
you're going to buckle it into the
buckle and then you're going to lift on
the lap portion of what you notice is
that the lap portion is locked even
though this part the shoulder portion is
loose it's not pulling through the latch
plate and that's really the test to
determine if you have a walking latch
plate as opposed to a locking retractor
so thanks for joining us in this video I
hope it was helpful if you have any
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