Child Safety Seat Tether Anchors
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2005 Mercury Montego, 2005 Ford Freestyle, and 2005 Ford Five Hundred. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
WARNING:
The child seat safety tether anchor/bolt MUST be securely tightened to specification. Otherwise, the child seat may not be correctly secured and the child could be injured if the vehicle is involved in a collision or stops suddenly.
On Five Hundred and Montego vehicles, the child safety seat tether anchors are a structural member of the parcel shelf sheet metal.
On Freestyle vehicles with a second row bench seat, the child safety seat tether anchors and LATCH system is a structural member of the seat frame.
On Freestyle vehicles a with third row bench seat, the child safety seat tether anchors and LATCH system is a structural member of the seat backrest frame.