Side air bag
Your vehicle is equipped with a side im‐
pact
air bag in each front seat. The
purpose of the air bag is to provide the
vehicle's driver and the front passenger
with additional protection than that of‐
fered by the seat belt alone.
The side air bags are designed to de‐
ploy only during certain side-impact
collisions, depending on the crash se‐
verity, angle, speed and point of im‐
pact. The side impact air bags are not
designed to deploy in all side impact
situations.
WARNING
Do not allow the passengers to lean
their
heads or bodies onto doors, put
their arms on the doors, stretch
their arms out of the window, or
place objects between the doors and
passengers when they are seated on
seats equipped with side and/or cur‐
tain air bags.
WARNING
• The side air bag is supplemental to
the
seat belt systems and is not a
substitute for them. Therefore
your seat belts must be worn at all
times while the vehicle is in mo‐
tion. The air bags deploy only in
certain side impact conditions se‐
vere enough to cause significant
injury to the vehicle occupants.
• For best protection from the side
air
bag system and to avoid being
injured by the deploying side air
bag, both front and all rear (if
equipped) seat occupants should
sit in an upright position with the
seat belt properly fastened.
• Do not use any accessory seat
c
overs.
• Use of seat covers could reduce or
pr
event the effectiveness of the
system.
• To prevent unexpected deploy‐
ment
of the side air bag that may
result in personal injury, avoid im‐
pact to the side impact sensor
when the ignition switch is on.
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