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A irbag system
Important information
Importance of wearing safety belts and
sitting properly
Airbags are only suppl emental restraints. For
airbags to do their job, occupants must always
properly wear their safety belts and be in a prop-
er seating position.
For your safety and the safety of your passen-
ge rs, before driving off, always :
.,. Adjust the dr iver's seat and steering wheel
prope rly 9 page
101,
.,. Adjus t the fro nt passenger's seat prope rly
¢ page 102,
.,. Wear safety bel t s properly ¢ page 111,
.,. Always properly use the proper child restraint
to protect children
¢ page 137 .
In a coll ision a irbags must infla t e wit hin the blink
of an eye and with considerable for ce. The s up-
plemental airbags can cause injuries if the drive r
or the front seat passenger is not seated proper-
ly. Therefore in order to help the a irbag to do its
job, it is important, both as a d river and as a pas-
senger to sit properly at a ll t imes .
By keeping room between your body and the
steer ing whee l and the front of the passenger
compartment, the a irbag can inflate fully and
comp letely and prov ide supplemental pro t ect io n
in certa in frontal coll is ions ¢
page 101, Correct
passenger seating positions .
For details on the
ope ration of th e seat adj ustment con tr ols
¢page 44.
It 's especially important that children are proper-
ly restra ined
¢ page 137 .
There is a lot that the driver and the passengers
can and must do to help the ind ividual safety fea-
tures installed in your Audi work together as a
sys t em.
Proper seating posit ion is important so that the
front a irbag on the driver side can do its job. If
you have a physical impairment or cond it ion that
prevents you from sitting proper ly on the driver
seat with the safety be lt prope rly fastened and
Airb a g sys tem
reach ing the pedals, special modifications to
your vehicle may be necessary.
Contact your aut ho rized Audi dea le r, or call Audi
Customer Rela t ions at 1-800-82 2 -283 4 .
When the airbag system deploys, a gas generator
will fill the airbags, break open the padded cov-
ers, and infla t e bet wee n the steeri ng wheel and
the driver a nd between t he inst rumen t pa ne l and
the front passenger . The a irbags w ill deflate im-
mediate ly after deployment so that the front oc-
cupants can see th rough the windsh ield again
without interruption .
All of th is t akes place in the blink of an eye, so
fast that many peop le don't even realize that the
airbags have deployed. The airbags a lso inflate
with a great deal of force and nothing should be
in the ir way when they deploy. Front airbags in
combination with properly worn safety belts slow
down and lim it the occupant's forward move-
me nt . Together they help to prevent the d river
and fro nt seat passe nger from hitt ing pa rts of
t he inside the ve hicle w hile redu cing t he forces
act ing on t he occupant dur ing t he crash . In t his
way they help to reduce the risk of injury to the
head and uppe r body in the crash . Airbags do not
protect the arms or the lower parts of the body.
Both front airbags will not infla t e in a ll frontal
collisions. The t riggering of the airbag system de -
pends on the vehicle decelerat ion rate caused by
the coll ision and registered by the electronic con -
trol unit . If this rate is be low the reference value
programmed into t he contro l unit, the airbags
will not be t rigge red, even though the car may be
badly damaged as a resu lt of the collision . Vehi-
cle damage, repair costs or even the lack of veh i-
cle damage is not necessari ly an indic ation of
whethe r an a irbag should inflat e or not.
It is not possib le to define a range of vehicle
spe eds t hat will cove r every possible kind and an-
gle of impa ct t ha t will always tr igger t he airbags ,
since the circumst an ces will vary cons iderably be-
tween one collision and another. Important fac-
tors include, for example, the nat ure (har d or
soft) of the object which the car hits, the angle of
impact, vehicle speed, etc . The front airbags will
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