142 Ch ild Safety
child should a lways ride in the seat properly
restrained for its age and size.
A WARNING
Not using a ch ild safety seat, using the
wrong ch ild safety seat or improperly in-
stalling a child restraint increases the risk
of serious personal injury and death .
- All veh icle occupants and especially chil-
dren must always be restrained properly
whenever riding in a vehicle .
- An unrestra ined or improperly rest rain-
ed child can be injured or killed by be-
ing thrown against the inside of the ve-
hicle or by being ejected from it d uring
a sudden maneuver or impact.
- An unrestrained or improperly restrain-
ed child is at much greater risk of injury
or death by being struck by an inflat ing
airbag.
- Commercially ava ilable child safety seats
are required to comply with U.S. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
213 (in Canada CMVSS 213).
- When buying a child restra int, sele ct
one that fits yo ur child and the veh icle .
- Only use child restrain t syst ems tha t
fu lly contact the flat portion of the
seat cushion . The child restraint must
not tip or lean to either side . Aud i does
not recommend using ch ild safety
seats that rest on legs or tube-like
frames. They do not provide adequate
contact with the seat.
- Always heed all legal requirements per-
taining to the installation and use of
child safety seats and carefully follow
the instructions provided by the manu-
facture r of the seat you are using .
- Never let mo re than one child occupy a
child safety seat .
- Never let babies or older children ride in
a vehicle while s itting on the lap of an-
other passenger.
- Holding a child in your arms is neve r a
substitute for a child restraint system.
- The st rongest pe rson could not hold
the child with the forces that exist in
an accident. The child will str ike the in-
terior of the veh icle and can also be
struck by the passenger.
- The child and the passenger can also
injure each another in an accident.
- Never install a rearward facing child
safety seat on the front passenger seat
un less the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on and stays on . If the PAS-
SENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not
come on and stay on the inflating airbag
will hit the child safety seat or infant car-
rier with great force and will smash the
child safety seat and child against the
backrest, door or roof. Have the a irbag
system inspected immediately by your
author ized Audi dealer.
- Forward-facing child safety seats insta l-
led on the front passenger's seat can in-
terfere with the airbag when it inflates
and cause serious injury to the child .
- If exceptional circumstances require the
use of a forward-facing child restraint on
the front passenger's seat, the ch ild's
safety and we ll-being require that the
following specia l precautions be taken :
- Make sure the forward-fac ing seat has
been designed and certified by its man-
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a
passenger front and side airbag.
-Always carefully follow the manufac-
turer's instructions provided with the
child safety seat or carrier.
- Always move the front passenger seat
into the rearmost position of the pas-
senger seat 's fore and aft adjustment
range, and as far away from the airbag
as possible before installing the ch ild
rest raint.
- Always make sure that nothing pre-
vents the front passenger's seat from
being moved to the rea rmost position
in its fore and aft adjus t ment range.
- Always make sure that the backrest is
in the upright pos ition.
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