Ch ild s a fety
restraints on the front seat - some impor-
tant things to know .
A WARNING
Always take special precautions if you must
install a forward or rearward-facing child re-
straint on the front passenger's seat in excep-
tional situations:
- Whenever a forward or rearward-facing
child restraint is installed on the front pas -
senger seat, the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light must come on and stay on whenever
the ignition is switched on.
- If the PASSENGER AI R BAG OFF light does
not come on and stay on , perform the
checks descr ibed
~page 237, Monitoring
the Advanced Airbag System.
- Take the ch ild restraint off the front passen-
ger seat and install it properly at one of the
rear seat positions if the
PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF
light does not stay on whenever
the ignition is switched on.
- Improper installation of chi ld restraints can
reduce their effectiveness or even prevent
them from providing any protection .
- An improper ly installed chi ld restraint can
interfere with the airbag as it deploys and
seriously injure or even kill the child.
- Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instructions provided with the child safety
seat or carrier.
- Never place additional items on the seat
that can increase the total weight registered
by the weight-sensing mat and can cause in-
jury in a crash .
A WARNING
Forward-fac ing ch ild restraints:
- 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 .
- Never put the forward-facing child restraint
up, against or very near the instrument pan -
el.
- Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest position in the up and down ad-
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justment range and move it back to the
rearmost posit ion in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment range, as far away from the a ir-
bag as poss ible, before install ing the for-
ward-facing child restraint .
- Always make sure that the safety belt upper
anchorage is behind the ch ild restraint and
not next to or in front of the child restraint
so that the safety be lt will be properly posi-
tioned.
- Make sure that the
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light comes on and stays on a ll the time
wheneve r the ignit ion is switched on.
A WARNING
Rearward-facing chi ld restraints:
- A child in a rearward-fac ing ch ild safety seat
installed on the front passenger seat will be
serious ly injured and can be killed if the
front airbag inflates - even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System.
- The inflating airbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the child safety seat and child
aga inst the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof.
- Always be especially carefu l if you must in-
stall a rearward facing child safety seat on
the front passenger seat in exceptiona l cir-
cumstances .
- A t ight tether strap on a rearward-facing
child restraint attached to the front passen-
ger seat can put too much pressure on the
weight-mat in the seat and reg ister a heav i-
er weight in the Advanced Airbag System .
The heavier weight reg istered can make the
system work as though an ad ult were on the
seat and deploy the Advanced Airbag when
it must be suppressed causing serious or
even fata l injury to the child.
- Make sure that the
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignition is switched on .
- If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does
not come on and stay on, immediately in-
stall the rear-facing child safety seat in a
rear seating posit ion and have the airbag
system inspected by your Audi dealer.
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