Child Restraint Anchor: Description: Notes

The Lower Anchors and Tether for Children, or LATCH  child restraint anchorage system provides for the installation of suitable child restraints in certain seating positions without using the seat belt provided for that seating position. The second seat in these models are equipped with a fixed-position child restraint upper tether anchor and child restraint lower anchors. See Fig 1 and Fig 2. The third seat is equipped with only a fixed-position child restraint upper tether anchor in the middle seating position. Export vehicles are equipped with fixed-position child restraint upper tether anchors only.

Fig 1: Child Restraint Upper Tether/Anchor - 2nd Row

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Fig 2: Child Restraint Lower Anchors Second Row

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The second row seats have lower anchors for each rear outboard seating position. See Fig 2. These anchors are welded to the seat cushion frame. They are each accessed from the front of their respective seats, at each side where the seat back meets the seat cushion. These lower anchors cannot be adjusted or repaired and, if faulty or damaged, the seat must be replaced as a unit.