Subaru 2007 B9 Tribeca Owner's Manual page 88

Do not hang coat hangers or other
hard or pointed objects on the coat
hooks. If such items were hanging
on the coat hooks during deploy-
ment of the SRS curtain airbags,
they could cause serious injuries by
coming off the coat hooks and being
thrown through the cabin or by pre-
venting deployment of the curtain
airbags.
Before hanging clothing on the coat
hooks, make sure there are no sharp
objects in the pockets. Hang cloth-
ing directly on the coat hooks with-
out using hangers.
Do not put any kind of cover or
clothes or other objects over either
front seatback and do not attach la-
bels or stickers to the front seat sur-
face on or near the SRS side airbag.
They could prevent proper deploy-
ment of the SRS side airbag, reduc-
ing protection available to the front
seat's occupant.
Operation
The SRS side airbag and SRS curtain air-
bag can function only when the ignition
switch is in the "ON" position.
The driver's and front passenger's SRS
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side airbags and SRS curtain airbags de-
Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags
ploy independently of each other since
each has its own impact sensor. There-
fore, they may not both deploy in the same
accident. Also, the SRS side airbag and
SRS curtain airbag deploys independently
of the driver's and front passenger's SRS
frontal airbags in the steering wheel and
instrument panel.
An impact sensor is located in each of the
left and right center pillars and rear wheel
houses. In addition, the rollover sensor is
inside the airbag control module. If a cen-
ter pillar impact sensor senses an impact
force above a predetermined level in a
side collision, the control module causes
both the SRS side airbag and curtain air-
bag on the impacted side to inflate regard-
less of whether the rear wheel house im-
pact sensor on the same side senses an
impact. If it is a rear wheel house impact
sensor alone that senses a sufficiently
strong impact force, the control module
causes only the SRS curtain airbag on the
impacted side to inflate. If the rollover sen-
sor detects rollover of the vehicle, the con-
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trol module inflates the curtain airbag. Af-
ter deployment, the SRS side airbag im-
mediately starts to deflate. The time re-
quired from detection of an impact to de-
flation of an SRS side airbag after deploy-
ment is shorter than the blink of an eye.
The SRS curtain airbag remains inflated
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