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seat. Please be sure to read the important infor-
mation in the sections that follow and be sure to
heed all of the WARNINGS.
A
WARNING
To reduce the risk of injury when an a irbag in-
flates, always wear safety belts properly.
- If you are unrestrained,
leaning forward, sit-
t ing s ideways or out of position in any way,
your risk of injury is much higher.
- You will also receive serious injur ies and
cou ld even be killed if you are up aga inst the
airbag or too close to it when it inflates -
even with an Advanced Airbag
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A
WARNING
A child in a rearward-facing chi ld seat insta l-
led on the front passenger seat will be ser i-
ously injured and can be killed if the front air-
bag inflates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System.
- Although the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle is designed to t urn off the front
airbag when a rearward -facing child re-
straint has been insta lled on the front pas-
senger seat, nobody can absolutely g uaran-
tee that deployment is impossible in a ll con-
ceivable s ituations that may happen during
the useful life of you r vehicle.
- The inflating a irbag w ill hit the child seat or
infant carrier with great force and will
smash the ch ild seat and child against the
backrest, ce nter armrest , door, or roof.
- Always install rearward-fac ing ch ild re-
straints on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearward fac ing ch ild
seat on the front passenger seat because of
exceptiona l circumstances and the PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF light does not come on
and stay on, immediately insta ll the rear-
facing child seat in a rear seat ing position
and have the airbag system inspected by
your Audi dealer .
Airb a g sys tem
A
WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward-facing child restraint on the
front passenger's seat:
- Always make sure the forward-facing seat
has bee n des igned and certified by its man-
ufacture r for use on a fro nt seat with a pas-
senger front and side airbag.
- Never put the forward-facing child restra int
up aga inst or very nea r the instr ument pan-
el.
- Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest posit io n in the up and down ad-
justment range and move it back to the
rearmost posit ion in t he seat's fo re and aft
adj ustment range, as far away from the a ir-
bag as possible, before install ing the for-
ward-facing ch ild restraint.
- Always make sure that the safety be lt upper
anchorage is behind the child restraint and
not next to or in front of the child restraint
so that the safety be lt will be properly posi-
tioned.
-Always make sure that there is noth ing on
the front passenge r seat that will cause the
capacitive passenge r detection system in
the seat to signal to the Airbag System that
the seat is occup ied by a person when it is
not, or to signal that it is occupied by some-
one who is heavier than the person actually
sitt ing on the sea t . The presen ce of addi-
tional objects could cause the passenger
front airbag to be turned on when it should
be off, or cou ld cause the airbag to work in a
way that is d ifferent from the way it wou ld
have wo rked without the object on the seat.
- Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignit ion is switched on.
Advanced Airbag System components
The front passenger seat in your veh icle has a lot
of very important parts of t he Advanced Airbag
System in it . These parts include the capacitive
passenge r detection system, wir ing, brackets,
and more. The contro l unit moni t o rs the system
on t he fro nt passenge r seat when the igni t ion is ..,.
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