Child safety
as by fastening the unused safety belt be-
hind the ch ild seat and letting the belt re-
tractor wind up the webb ing.
Child 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. 170 Schemat ic overview: rea rward-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 225 .
• Push the child safety seat down with your full
weight to get the safety be lt really tight so that
the seat cannot move forward and sideways
more than 1 in (2.5 cm).
• Secure unused safety belts on the rear seat
¢ page 219.
Infants up to about one year (20 lbs or 9 kg) are
best protected in spec ia l infant carriers a nd child
safety seats des igned for their age group. Many
experts believe t ha t 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
¢ fig. 170.
The airbag on the passenger side makes the front
seat a potentially dangerous place for a child to
ride. The front sea t is not the safest place for a
chi ld in a forward -facing child seat.
It is a very
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dangerous place for an infant or a larger chi ld in
a rearward-facing seat.
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 carriers on the front passenger
seat - even with an Advanced Airbag System .
A child will be serious ly injured and can be
killed whe n the inflating ai rbag hits the
child safe ty seat or infant car rier with great
force and smashes the child safe ty seat and
child against the backrest, center armrest,
door or roof¢
page 191, Child restraints on
the front seat - some important things to
know.
- Always install rear-facing child safety seats
or infant carriers on the rear seat.
- Never install a rear-facing ch ild restraint in
the forward-facing 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, immediately install
the rear -facing child safety seat in a rear
seating posi t ion and have t he airbag system
inspected by your Audi dealer .
- Never place or use any electr ical dev ice
(such as a lap t op, CD playe r, e lectron ic
games device, power inver ter or seat heater
for chi ld seats) on the front passenger seat
if the device is connected to the 12-volt
socket or the cigarette lighter socket.
- If a seat heater has been retrofitted or oth-
erwise added to the front passenger seat,
never install any child restra int system on
this seat.
- Make sure that there are no wet objects
(such as a wet towel) and no water or other
liquids on the front passenger seat cush ion.
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