Child Safety Seat - Installation
Group: 69Number: 95-04
Date: Nov 6, 1995
Subject:
Child Safety Seats, Installing on Front Passenger Seat
Vehicles with Passive Restraint Belts
Model(s):
Fox, Passat, Corrado m.y. 1990-94 Golf, GTI, Jetta, Golf, Jetta, m.y. 1985-93
This Technical Bulletin supercedes the following Technical Bulletins:
Group Bulletin No Date
68 89-01 8/7/89
68 89-03 12/15/89
68 91-07 6/30/95
68 91-08 10/31/91
68 91-11 11/30/91
68 94-02 3/31/94
This bulletin covers the following topics:
Child Seat Basics
Size and Weight Guide for Child Safety Seats
Child Safety Seat Kit, Installation for Front Passenger Seat
Child Safety Seat Restraint Anchorage for Rear Seats
See Technical Bulletin, Group 69, No. 95-05
CAUTION:
Part Numbers are for reference only. Always check with your Parts Dept for the latest information.
Child Seat Basics
All 50 states and the District of Columbia have child passenger protection laws which require small children, usually up to four years of age, to ride in an approved child car safety seat regardless of whether they are in a front or rear seat. The safest way to transport young children is in a child safety seat installed in the rear seat of the car.
To correctly restrain children a child safety seat must be used from birth until the child is large enough to correctly fit in the vehicle's safety belts - usually at five to seven years of age and weighing 50 to 60 pounds. See the attached NHTSA Size and Weight Guide for reference.
Cars and Child Safety Seats - Do They Fit Together?
All child safety seats are not compatible with all cars, seats, or restraint systems in cars. Make certain that the child safety seat fits the car and seating position in which it will be used.
Seatbelt Locking Clip:
Volkswagen cars are equipped with automatic seat belt tensioners. 3-point belts in the front passenger seat and both rear outboard seat positions on vehicles without an airbag, require a locking clip for the installation of a child safety seat. Passive belt systems may not be used in conjunction with child seats. A vehicle equipped with passive belts requires the installation or use of a manually adjustable belt.
The locking clip comes with your child seat when new.
Air Bags:
Never install a rearward facing child seat or infant carrier on the front passenger seat. See the Volkswagen owner's manual.
Child Seat Shopping Guide
A shopping guide for child safety seats is available free of charge from:
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration NTS-13
400 7th Street S.W.
Washington, DC 20590
Phone: 800-424-9399
Size and Weight Guide for Child Safety Seats
Child Safety Seat Kit, Installation for Front Passenger Seat (Vehicle with passive restraint belts only)
WARNING:
The child restraint belt is not intended to be used as a lap belt by a child or an adult. Improper use could result in personal injury.
Parts required
CAUTION:
Part numbers are for reference only. Always check with your Part Dept. for the latest information.
Note:
Depending on the vehicle, all parts of the kit may not be required.
Retractor, installing
Golf 1985-89, Jetta 1985-88:
- Check retractor assembly in vehicle for threaded hole and an attached 4.5 mm (approx. 11/64 in.) bushing -arrow-.
If bushing is present, proceed with installation of child restrain kit.
If retractor assembly does not have threaded hole and bushing:
- Remove right front seat.
- Install new version retractor assembly -arrow A-
- Install buckle with metal mounting stalk from kit -arrow B- to retractor bushing
^ Tightening torque: 40 Nm (30 ft lb)
- Reinstall seat.
Jetta 1989:
- Remove right front seat.
- Remove retractor assembly from seat.
- Install new version retractor assembly -arrow-
^ Tightening torque: 40 Nm (30 ft lb)
- Reinstall seat.
Golf/Jetta 1985 - 1989
- Remove threaded plastic plug at door by right side B-pillar -arrow-
- Install tongue and anchor assembly, both plastic washers, bushing and cover cap from kit.
^ Tightening torque: 40 Nm (30 ft lb)
- Place child seat on front passenger seat
- Buckle both ends of child seat belt and adjust snugly over child seat by pulling loose end of webbing to tighten seat belt.
Golf/Jetta 1990-1992
- Remove screw -arrow B- from rear trim.
- Pull up and loosen door sill trim.
- Pull back carpet to expose threaded hole -arrow A-.
- Mark and punch hole in carpet.
- Install tongue and anchor assembly from kit.
^ Bolt -arrow-
tightening torque: 40 Nm (30 ft lb)
- Install cover cap over bolt
- Place child seat on front passenger seat.
- Buckle both ends of child seat belt and adjust snugly over child seat by pulling loose end of webbing to tighten seat belt.
- Reinstall trim components in reverse order of removal.
Fox 1990-1993
4-door
- Remove lower B-pillar trim.
- Locate threaded hole in lower front of B-pillar -arrow-
- Mark and cut a hole in B-pillar trim in line with threaded hole.
- Reinstall B-pillar trim.
- Install tongue and anchor assembly from kit.
^ Bolt -arrow-
tightening torque: 40 Nm (30 ft lb)
- Install cover cap over bolt.
- Place child seat on front passenger seat
- Buckle both ends of child seat belt and adjust snugly over child seat by pulling loose end of webbing to tighten seat belt.
2-door
- Remove door sill trim.
- Pull back carpeting in area of door sill and locate threaded hole -A- in lower side member.
- Punch hole in carpeting in line with threaded hole.
- Reinstall carpeting and door sill trim.
- Install tongue and anchor assembly from kit
^ Bolt -arrow-
tightening torque: 40 Nm (30 ft lb)
- Install cover cap over bolt.
- Place child seat on front passenger seat.
- Buckle both ends of child seat belt and adjust snugly over child seat by pulling loose end of webbing to tighten seat belt.