Airb a g syste m
The front Advanced Airbag System supp lements
the safety belts to provide additional protection
for the driver's and front passenger's heads and
upper bodies in frontal crashes. The airbags in-
flate only in frontal impacts when the vehicle de-
celerat ion is high enough.
The front Advanced Airbag System for the front
seat occupants is not a substitute for your safety
belts. Rather, it is part of the overall occupant re-
stra int system in your vehicle. Always remember
that the airbag system can only help to protect
you, if you are sitt ing upright, wear ing your safe-
ty belt and wear ing it prope rly. This is why you
and your passengers must always be prope rly re-
stra ined, not just because the law req uires you to
be.
The Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle has
been certified to meet the "low risk" requ ire-
ments for 3 and 6 year-old children on the pas-
senger side and very sma ll adults on the driver
side . The low risk dep loyment criteria are intend -
ed to help reduce the risk of injury through inter-
action with the front airbag that can occur, for
examp le, by being too close to the steering wheel
and instrument panel when the airbag inflates .
In addition, the system has been certified to
comp ly with the "suppression" requirements of
the Safety Standard, to turn
off the front airbag
for infants 12 months old and younger who are
restrained on the front passenger seat in child re-
stra ints that are listed in the Standa rd
¢ page 251, Child restraints and Advanced Air-
bags.
"Suppress ion" requ ires t he front airbag on the
passenger side to be turned
off if:
- a child up to about one year of age is restra ined
on the front passenger seat in one of the rear-
facing or forward-fac ing infant restra ints listed
in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
208
with which the Advanced Airbag System in your
vehicle was certified. For a listing of the child
restra ints that were used to certify your vehi-
cle's compliance with the US Safety Standard
¢ page 251,
232
- weight less than a threshold level stored in t he
control unit is detected on the front passenger
seat.
When a person is detected on the front passen -
ger seat, weighing more than the total weight of
a child that is about 1 year old restrained in one
of the rea r-facing or forward-fac ing infant re-
straints (listed in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard
208 with which the Advanced Airbag
System in your vehicle was certified), the front
airbag on the passenger side may or may not de-
ploy.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light comes on
when the electronic control unit detects a tota l
weight on t he front passenger seat that requ ires
t he front airbag to be tur ned
off . If t he PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF light does not come on, the
front airbag on the passenge r side has not been
tu rned
off by t he control unit and can dep loy if
the control unit senses an impact t hat meets the
conditions stored in its memory.
If the total weight on the front passe nger seat is
more than t hat of a typical 1 year-o ld, but less
than the weight of a small adult, the front airbag
on the passenger side may dep loy (the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on).
For example , the airbag ma y deplo y if :
- a small child that is heavier than a typ ical 1
year-old child is on the front passenger seat
(regard less of whethe r the child is in one of t he
child seats listed
¢ page 251),
- a child who has outgrown child restr aints is on
the front passenge r seat.
If the front passenger airbag is tu rned
off, the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light in the center of
t he instr ument pane l will come on and stay on.
The front airbag on the passenger side may
not
deploy (the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does
not illuminate and stay lit) if:
- a small adult or teenager is on the front pas-
senger seat
- a passenger who is not sitting upright with
their back against a non-reclined backrest with
their feet on the vehicle floor in front of the
seat is on the front passenger seat .
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