Child safety seats
Infant seats
Babies and infants up to about one year old and
20 lbs. or 9 kg need special rearward-facing
child restraints that support the back, neck and
head in a crash.
Fig. 24 0 Schemat ic overview: rearward-facing infant seat,
properly installed on the rear seat
• When using the vehicle safety be lt to install a
child safety seat, you must first activate the
convertible locking retractor on the safety be lt
to prevent the child safety seat from moving
¢ page 259 or install the seat using the LATCH
attachments.
• Push the child safety seat down with your fu ll
weight to get the safety belt really tight so that
the seat cannot move forward or sideways
more than one inch (2.5 cm) .
• Secure unused safety belts on the rear seat
¢ page 254 .
Infants up to about one year (20 lbs. or 9 kg) are
best protected in spec ial infant carriers and child
safety seats des igned for their age group . Many
experts believe that infants and small children
should ride only in spec ial restraints in which the
child faces the back of the veh icle. These infant
seats support the baby 's back, neck and head in a
crash
c!;> fig. 240.
The airbag on the passenger side makes the front
seat a potentially dangero us place for a child to
ride. The front seat is not the safest place for a
child in a forward -facing child seat . It is a very
lL dangerous place for an infant or a larger child in
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A WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the wrong
child safety seat or improperly installing a
child restraint increases the risk of ser ious
personal injury and death in a crash .
- Never install rear-facing child safety seats
or infant car riers on the front passenger
seat - even with an Advanced Airbag System .
A child will be serio us ly injured and can be
killed when the inf lating airbag hits the
child safety seat or infant carrier with great
force and smashes the child safety seat and
child against the backrest, center armrest,
door or roof
c!;> page 228, Child restraints on
the front seat - some important things to
know.
- Always install rear-fac ing child safety seats
or infant carriers on the rear seat.
- Never install a rear-facing ch ild restraint in
the forward-fac ing direction . Such restraints
are designed for the special needs of infants
and very small children and cannot protect
them properly if the seat is forward-facing .
- If you must install a rearward facing child
safety seat on the front passenger seat be-
cause of exceptional circumstances a nd the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on and stay on, immedia t ely install
the rea r-facing child sa fety seat in a rear
seating position and have the a irbag system
inspected by your Audi dealer .
-A lways read and heed all WARNINGS whe n-
ever using a child restrained in a vehicle is
be ing used
c!;> page 219, Safety belts,
c!;> page 227, Airbag system and
c!;> page 249, Important information.
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