IMPORTANT NEW AIR BAG SUN VISOR LABELS FOR YOUR SAFETY
TO: Owners of 1993-1996 Chrysler Corporation Vehicles Equipped with Passenger Air Bags
We recently sent you a letter providing important air bag safety information. That letter
was intended to help you understand how to make you and your passengers, especially
children, as safe as possible in your vehicle. We explained that, while air bags save
lives and are very effective supplemental safety devices, they can cause harm in some
circumstances.
We emphasized the importance of wearing lap and shoulder belts properly. We also told you
that the child deaths in vehicles equipped with passenger air bags occurred to children
riding in the front passenger seat. Almost without exception, these children were not
restrained or were improperly restrained. And, we provided four simple steps you can take
to minimize the risk of harm from a deploying air bag.
This letter provides you with self-stick labels for each of your vehicle's sun visors. The
labels provide clear reminders of potential air bag dangers and suggest the best way to
keep all your passengers, especially children, safe. All new vehicles equipped with
passenger air bags built on or after February 25, 1997 will have these labels as required
by U.S.federal law. Please install them. By doing so, you, your passengers and any
other operator of your vehicle will have convenient, easy-to-read instructions about air
bag safety. Instructions for mounting the labels on your vehicle's sunvisors appear on the
back of the labels. Please follow them carefully. To ensure proper bonding of the
labels,please warm up your interior to at least 50_ Fahrenheit.
As a reminder, the following are the four simple steps you can follow to minimize the
risk of harm from a deploying air bag:
1. Children 12 years old and under should ride buckled up in a rear seat:
- Infants in rear-facing child safety seats (designed for children up to one year or
20 pounds) should NEVER ride in the front seat of a vehicle with a passenger side air bag.
An air bag deployment can cause severe injury or death to infants in this position.
- Children (up to 60 pounds) should be secured in the rear seat in child safety seats or
booster seats. If the booster seat is not equipped with a front shield, the child should
be seated in either rear outboard seat area to take advantage of the added safety of the
available lap and shoulder belt.
- Older children who do not use child safety seats or booster seats should ride properly
buckled up in the rear seat, in the outboard seat area if possible.
- Never allow children to slide the shoulder belt behind them or under their arm;
2. All occupants should wear their lap and shoulder belts properly;
3. Driver and front passenger seats should be moved back as far as practical to allow the
air bags room to inflate, and;
4. You should read your vehicle owner's manual and instructions provided with your child
safety or booster seat to make sure you are using it correctly.
Again, we hope you never have an accident. But if you do, these important steps will
increase the safety of you and your passengers.
Sincerely,
Chrysler
Corporation