Side Impact Air Bag - Kia 2016 Sportage Owner's Manual

Safety features of your vehicle
* The actual air bags in the vehicle may
differ from the illustration.
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Side impact air bag

Your vehicle is equipped with a side
impact air bag in each front seat.
The purpose of the air bag is to pro-
vide the vehicle's driver and/or the
front passenger with additional pro-
tection than that offered by the seat
belt alone.
• The side impact air bags are
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designed to deploy during certain
side-impact collisions, depending
on the crash severity, angle, speed
and point of impact.
• The side impact air bags do not
only deploy on the side of the
impact but also on the opposite
side.
• Also, both sides of the side impact
air bags deploy in certain rollover
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situations.
• The side impact air bags are not
designed to deploy in all side
impact or rollover situations.
WARNING
- Unexpected
deployment
Avoid impact to the side impact
airbag sensor when the ignition
switch is ON to prevent unex-
pected deployment of the side
impact air bag.