Kia Cerato Owner's Manual page 85

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 air bags are designed to
deploy only during certain side
impact collisions, depending on the
crash severity of impact.
However, when side deployment
threshold is satisfied at front-impact,
side air bags may deploy. The side air
bags are not designed to deploy in all
side impact or rollover situations.
The side air bags may deploy on the
side of the impact or on both side.
✽ ✽ NOTICE -
if equipped with
rollover sensor
• Also, both side of the side air bags
deploy in certain rollover situa-
tions.
• The side air bag may deploy when
the rollover sensor detects the situ-
ation as a rollover.
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 passen-
gers when they are seated on
seats equipped with side and/or
curtain air bags.
WARNING
• The side air bag is supplemen-
tal to the driver's and the pas-
senger's seat belt systems and
is not a substitute for them.
Therefore your seat belts must
be worn at all times whilst the
vehicle is in motion. The air
bags deploy only in certain
side impact or rollover*
tions severe enough to cause
significant injury to the vehicle
occupants.
(Continued)
* 1 Only vehicle equipped with rollover sensor.
Safety features of your vehicle
(Continued)
• For best protection from the
side air bag system and to
avoid being injured by the
deploying side air bag, both
front seat occupants should
sit in an upright position with
the seat belt properly fastened.
The driver's hands should be
placed on the steering wheel at
the 9:00 and 3:00 positions.
The passenger's arms and
hands should be placed on
their laps.
• Do not use any accessory
seat covers.
• Use of seat covers could
reduce or prevent the effec-
tiveness of the system.
• To prevent
deployment of the side air bag
that may result in personal
1 condi-
injury, avoid impact to the
side impact sensor when the
ignition switch is on.
• If the seat or seat cover is
damaged, we recommend that
the system be serviced by an
authorised Kia dealer.
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