Ch ild s a fety
A WARNING
Children on the front seat of any car even with
Advanced Airbags can be seriously injured or
even killed when an airbag inflates. A child in
a rearward-facing child safety seat installed
on the front passenger seat will be seriously
injured and can be killed if the front airbag in-
flates.
- The inflating airbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the child safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, or
doo r.
- Always install rear-facing child safety seats
on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearward fac ing ch ild
safety seat on the front passenger seat in
exceptional circumstances and the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on
and stay on, immediately insta ll the rear -
facing child safety seat in a rear seating po-
sition and have the airbag system inspected
immediately 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 cert ified by its man-
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side a irbag .
- Always follow the manufacturer's instruc-
t ions prov ided with the ch ild safety seat or
earner.
- Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest position in the up and down ad-
justment range and move it back to the
rea rmost position in the seat's fore and aft
adjus t ment range, as fa r away from the air-
bag as possib le, before insta lling the for-
ward- facing child restraint .
- Always make sure t ha t the safety belt upper
anchorage is beh ind the child restraint and
not next to or in front of the child restraint
so that the safety belt will be properly posi-
tioned.
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- Always make sure that the PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF
light comes on and stays on all the
time whenever the ign it ion is switched on.
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Always replace child restraints that were in-
stalled in a vehicle during a crash . Damage to
a child restraint that is not vis ible could cause
it to fai l in another collision situat ion.
Advanced front airbag system and children
Your vehicle is equ ipped with a front "Advanced
Airbag System" in compl iance with United States
Federal Motor Veh icle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
208, as we ll as Canada Moto r Vehicle Safety
Standa rd (CMVSS) 208 as applicab le at the t ime
you r vehicle was manufactured.
The Advanced Airbag system in your vehicle has
been certified to mee t the "low- risk" require-
ments fo r 3 - and 6-yea r old chi ldren on the pas -
senger side and sma ll adu lts on t he driver side.
The low risk deployment criteria are intended to
reduce the risk of injury t hrough interaction with
the airbag that can occur, for example, by be ing
too close to the steering wheel and instrument
panel whe n the airbag inflates. In addition, the
system has been cert ified to comply with the
"supp ression" requirements of the Safety Stand-
ard, to tur n off the front airbag for infants up to
12 months who are restrained on t he fro nt pas -
senger seat in child restraints t hat are list ed in
t he Standard.
Even thoug h your veh icle is eq uipped wit h a n Ad-
vanced Airbag system, all ch ildren, especially
t hose 12 yea rs a nd younger, sho uld always ride
in the back seat proper ly restrained for their age
and size. The airbag on the passenger side makes
t he front seat a potentially dange rous 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 .
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