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- 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 injur ies and
cou ld 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 142 .
A WARNING
A child in a rearward-facing ch ild seat instal-
led on the front passenger seat w ill be ser i-
ously injur ed and can be killed if the front air-
bag inflates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System.
- Alt hough the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle is des igned to t urn off t he front
airbag when a rea rwa rd-faci ng ch ild re -
straint has been insta lled on the front pas -
senger seat, nobody can abso lutely guaran -
tee that deployment is impossible in a ll con-
ceivable s ituations that may happen during
the useful life of your vehicle.
- The inflating a irbag will hit the child seat or
infant carrier with great force and will
smash the child seat and child against the
backrest, ce nter armrest, door, or roof .
- Always install rearward-fac ing ch ild re-
straints on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearward fac ing child
seat on the front passenger seat because of
exceptiona l circumstances and the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come o n
and stay on, immediately insta ll the rear-
facing child seat in a rear seat ing pos ition
and have t he a irbag syst em inspected by
your Audi dealer .
A WARNING
If, in except ional circumstances, you mus t in-
sta ll a forward-facing chi ld restraint on the
front passenger's seat:
- Always make sure t he forward -facing seat
has been designed and certified by its man -
ufact urer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and s ide a irbag.
Airbag sys t e m
- Never put the fo rward-facing child restraint
up aga inst or very near the instr ument 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
adju stment range, as far away from the a ir-
bag as poss ible, before installing the for-
ward-fac ing ch ild rest raint.
- Always make sure that the safety be lt upper
a nchorage is behind the child rest raint and
not next to or in front of t he child res tr ai nt
so th at the safety be lt will be proper ly posi -
tioned.
- Always make su re th at t here is not hing on
the front passenger seat t hat 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 add i-
tional objects cou ld cause the passe nger
front a irbag to be t urned on when it should
be off, or cou ld cause t he air bag t o work in a
way th at is d ifferen t from the way it wo uld
have worked withou t the object on t he seat .
- Make sure that t he
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light comes on a nd stays on all the time
whenever t he ignition is switched on .
Advanced Airbag System components
The front passenger seat in your vehicle has a lot
of very important parts of t he Advanced Airbag
System in it. These parts include the capacitive
passenger detection system, wiring, brackets,
and more . The control unit monitors the system
on the fro nt passenger seat when the ignition is
switched on and turns the airbag indicator ligh t
on when a malfunction in the one of the system
components is detec t ed ¢
page 154. Because
the fron t passenger sea t contains impo rt an t
parts of the Advanced Airbag System, you m ust
take care to prevent it from being damaged .
Damage to the seat may prevent the Advanced ..,_
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