Airbag System - Suzuki 2008 XL7 Owner's Manual

SEATS AND RESTRAINT SYSTEMS
Remove any additional material from the
seat such as blankets, cushions, seat cov-
ers, seat heaters or seat massagers before
reinstalling or securing the child restraint.
If the on indicator is still lit, secure the child
in the child restraint in a rear seat position
in the vehicle and check with your dealer. If
no rear seat is available, do not install a
child restraint in this vehicle and check with
your dealer.
To remove the child restraint, unbuckle the
vehicle's safety belt and let it go back all
the way. If the top tether is attached to a
top tether anchor, disconnect it.
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Airbag System

Your vehicle has the following airbags:
• A frontal airbag for the driver.
• A frontal airbag for the right front pas-
senger.
• A roof-rail airbag for the driver and pas-
senger directly behind the driver.
• A roof-rail airbag for the right front pas-
senger and the passenger seated
directly behind that right front passenger.
Your vehicle may have the following air-
bags:
• If your vehicle has a third row seat, it will
have third row roof-rail airbags.
All of the airbags in your vehicle will have
the word AIRBAG embossed in the trim or
on an attached label near the deployment
opening.
For frontal airbags, the word AIRBAG will
appear on the middle part of the steering
wheel for the driver and on the instrument
panel for the right front passenger.
With roof-rail airbags, the word AIRBAG
will appear along the headliner or trim.
Airbags are designed to supplement the
protection provided by safety belts. Even
though today's airbags are also designed
to help reduce the risk of injury from the
force of an inflating bag, all airbags must
inflate very quickly to do their job.
Here are the most important things to
know about the airbag system:
WARNING
You can be severely injured or killed
in a crash if you are not wearing your
safety belt – even if you have airbags.
Wearing your safety belt during a
crash helps reduce your chance of
hitting things inside the vehicle or
being ejected from it. Airbags are
"supplemental restraints"
safety belts. All airbags are designed
to work with safety belts, but do not
replace them.
Frontal airbags are designed to
deploy in moderate to severe frontal
and near frontal crashes. They are
not designed to inflate in rollover,
rear crashes, or in
crashes.
Rollover capable roof-rail airbags are
designed to inflate in moderate to
severe crashes where something hits
the side of your vehicle, during a
vehicle rollover, or in a severe frontal
impact. They are not designed to
inflate in rear crashes.
Everyone in your vehicle should wear
a safety belt properly – whether or
not there is an airbag for that person.
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