Airb a g syste m
- If you are unrestrained, leaning forward, sit-
t ing s ideways or out of pos ition in any way,
your risk of injury is much higher.
- You will also receive serious injuries and
could even be killed if you are up aga inst the
airbag or too close to it when it inflates -
even with an Advanced Airbag ¢
page 269 .
A WARNING
A child in a rearward -facing child seat instal-
led on the front passenger seat will be ser i-
ously inju red and can be killed if the front air-
bag inflates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System.
- Although the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle is designed to tu rn off the front
airbag when a rearward-facing child re-
straint has been insta lled on the front pas -
senger seat, nobody can absolutely g uaran-
tee that deployment is impossible in all con-
ceivable s ituations that may happen during
the useful life of your vehicle.
- The inflating airbag will hit the child seat or
infant carrier with great force and will
smash the ch ild seat and child against the
backrest, center armrest, door, or roof .
- Always install rearward-facing ch ild re-
straints on the rear seat .
- If you must install a rearward fac ing ch ild
seat on the front passenger seat because of
exceptional circumstances and the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on
and stay on, immediately insta ll the rear-
facing child seat in a rea r seating position
and have t he airb ag system inspected by
your Audi dealer .
A WARNING
If, in except ional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward-facing chi ld restraint on the
front passenger's seat :
- Always make sure the forward -facing seat
has been designed and certified by its man-
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side a irbag.
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- Never put the fo rward-facing child restraint
up against or very near the instrument pan-
el.
- Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest posit ion in the up and down ad-
justment range and move it back to the
rearmost posit ion in the seat's fore and aft
adj ustment range, as far away from the a ir-
bag as poss ible, before installing the for-
ward-f acing chi ld restrain t .
- Always make sure that the safety be lt upper
anchorage is behind the ch ild rest raint and
not next to or in fron t of t he child rest raint
so th at the safety be lt will be properly posi-
tioned.
- Always make sure th at there is noth ing on
the front passenger seat that will cause the
capacitive passenger detection system in
the seat to signal to the Airbag System that
the seat is occup ied by a person when it is
not, or to signal that it is occupied by some-
one who is heavier than the person actually
sitt ing on the seat . The presence of addi-
tional objects could cause the passenger
front airbag to be turned on when it should
be off, or could cause the airbag to work in a
way th at is differen t fr om the way it wou ld
have worked without the objec t on t he seat .
- Make sure th at the
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light comes on and stays on al l the time
whenever the ignition is switched on .
Advanced Airbag System components
The front passenger seat in your vehicle has a lot
of very important parts of the Advanced Airbag
System in it. These pa rts include the capacitive
passenger detection system, wir ing, brackets,
and more . The control unit monitors the system
on the front passenger seat when the ignit ion is
switched on a nd turns the airbag indicato r light
o n when a malfunction in the one of the system
components is detected ¢
page 281. Because
t he fron t passenger sea t contains impo rtan t
parts of the Advanced Airbag System , you must
take care to prevent it from being damaged .
Damage to the seat may prevent the Advanced .,.
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