Child safety
- Always make sure that the PASSENGER
AIR BAG OFF
light comes on and stays on
all the time whenever the ignit ion is
sw itched on.
- If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light
does not come on and stay on, immediate-
ly install the forward-facing child seat in a
rear seating posit ion and have the airbag
system inspected by your authorized Audi
dea le r.
- Always buckle the child seat firmly in
place even if a child is not sitt ing in it . A
loose child seat can fly around during a
sudden stop o r in a collision.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS
wheneve r using a child restraint in a vehi-
cle ~
page 260, Safety belts,
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page 269,
Airbag system
and
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page 294, Impor-
tant information .
(D Tips
Always replace child restraints that were in-
stalled in a vehicle during a crash . Damage to
a child restraint that is not visib le could cause
it to fail in another collision situation .
Advanced front airbag system and children
Your veh icle is equipped with a front "Advanced
Airbag System" in compliance with United States
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
208, as well as Canada Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard (CMVSS) 208 as applicable at the time
your ve hicle was manufactured.
The Advanced Airbag system in your veh icle has
been cert ified to meet the "low-risk" require-
ments for 3- and 6-year old children on the pas-
senger side and small adults on the driver side.
The low risk deployment cr it eria are intended to
reduce the risk of injury through interaction with
the airbag that can occur, for examp le, by being
too close to the steering whee l and instrument
panel when the airbag inflates. In addition, the
system has been certified to comply with the
"suppress ion" requ irements of the Safety Stand-
ard, to turn off the front airbag for infants up to
12 months who are restrained o n the front pas-
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senger seat in child restraints t hat are listed in
the Standard.
Even though your veh icle is eq uipped w it h an Ad-
vanced Airbag system, all ch ildr en, especially
those 12 years and younger, shou ld a lways ride
in the back seat properly restrained for their age
and size. The airbag on the passenger side makes
the front seat a potentially dangerous place for a
child to ride. The front seat is not the safest place
for a ch ild in a forward -facing ch ild safety seat . It
can be a very dangerous place for an infant or a
larger ch ild in a rearward-facing seat .
The vehicle's Advanced Airbag System has a ca-
pacit ive passenger detection system in the front
passenger seat cushion that can detect the pres-
ence of a baby or a ch ild in a child restraint sys-
tem on this seat.
The capacitive passenger detection system regis-
ters the changes that result in an electrical field
when a child, a chi ld restra int, and a baby blanket
are on the front passenger seat. The change in
the measured capacitance due to the presence of
a chi ld, a child restraint, and a baby blanket on
the front passenger seat is related to the child
restraint system resting on the seat. The meas-
ured capacitance of a child restraint system var-
ies depending on the type of system and specific
make and model.
The electrical capacitance of the various types,
makes, and models of child restraints specified
by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Ad-
ministration (NHTSA) in the relevant safety
standard are stored in the Advanced Airbag Sys-
tem control unit together with the capacitances
typ ical of infants and a 1-year old child. When a
child restraint is used on the front passenger
seat w ith a typical 1 year-old infant , the Ad-
vanced Airbag System compares the capacitance
measured by the capacitive passenger detection
system with the data stored in the e lectronic con-
tro l unit .
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