Child restraints on the front seat - some
important things to know
.. Be sure to read the important informat ion
and heed the WARNINGS for important de-
tai ls about chi ldren and Advanced Airbags
~ page 173.
Even though your vehicle is equipped with an
Advanced Airbag System, make certain that
a ll children, especially those 12 years and
younger, a lways ride in the back seat properly
restra ined for their age and size. The airb ag
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 fo r a
child in a fo rward-facing chi ld seat. It can be a
very dange rous place for an infant or a ch ild in
a rearward -facing seat.
The Advanced Airbag System in your veh icle
has been cert ified t o comp ly with the require-
men t s of Unit ed States Federa l Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 as applicable at the time
your vehicle was manufactured.
The Standard requires t he front airbag on the
passenger side to be tu rne d off ("sup-
pressed") if a child up to about one year of
age restrained in one of the rear -facing or for-
ward -facing infant restraints listed in Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with wh ich
the Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
was certified has been installed o n the front
passenger seat . For a listing of the child re-
straints that we re used to certify compliance
with the US Safety Sta ndard ~
page 175.
The PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light in the in-
strument panel te lls you when the front Ad-
vanced Airbag on the passenger side has been
turned off by the e lectronic control unit.
Each t ime you sw itch on the ignit ion, the
PAS-
SENGER AIR BAG OFF
light will come on for a
few seconds a nd:
- will stay on if t he front passenger seat is not
occup ied ,
- will stay on if the electrical capacitance
measured by the capacitive passenger de-
tection system for the front passenge r seat
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equa ls the combined capacitance of an in-
fant up to about one year of age and one of
the rearwa rd-facing or forward-fac ing ch ild
restraints listed in Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 with which the Ad-
vanced Airbag System in your ve hicle was
cert ified . For a listing of the child restraints
that were used to certify your vehicle's com-
pliance with t he U.S. Safety Standard
~ page 175 .
- will stay on if t he re is a small ch ild or child
restrai nt on the front passenge r seat,
- will go off if the front passenger seat is oc-
cupied by an adult as registered by t he ca-
pacitive passenger det ection syst em
~
page 159, Monitoring the Advanced Air-
bag System.
The PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light comes on
when e lect rical capacitan ce registe red on the
fron t passenger seat is eq ua l to or less than
the combined capacitance of a typical 1 year -
old infant and one of the rearward-facing or
forward -facing chi ld restraints listed in Feder-
al Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with
which the Advanced Airbag System in your ve-
hicle was certified .
If the total e lectr ical capacitance registered
on the front passenger seat is more than that
of a typical 1 year-o ld child but less than the
weight of a small adu lt, the front airbag on
the passenger side can deploy (the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on) .
If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does
not come on, the front airbag on the passen -
ger side has not been turned off by the e lec-
tron ic cont ro l unit and ca n deploy if the con-
t rol unit senses an impact t ha t mee t s t he con-
dit ions st ored in its memo ry.
For example, the airbag may deploy if:
- a small ch ild that is heav ier than a typical 1
year-old child is o n t he fron t passenger seat
(regard less of whether the child is in one of
the child seats listed ~
page 175), o r
- a child who has outgrown child restraints is
on the front passenge r seat. .,,.
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