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page 158, More important things to know
about front airbags .
In addition to their normal safety function, safe-
ty belts help keep the driver or front passenger in
position in a frontal collision so that the airbags
can prov ide supplemental
protection.
The airbag system is not a subst itute for your
safety belt. Rather, it is part of the overall occu -
pant restraint system in your vehicle. Always re-
member that the airbag system can only help to
protect you if you are wearing your safety belt
and wear ing it properly . This is why you should
always wear your safety belt, not just because
the law requires you to do so ¢
page 140, Gener-
al information.
Remember too, airbags will deploy only once and
only in certain kinds of accidents - your safety
be lts are always there to offer protection in those
accidents in which airbags are not supposed to
deploy or when they have a lready deployed, for
example when your vehicle str ikes or is str uck by
anothe r after t he f irst collision .
This is just one of the reasons why an airbag is
not a substi t ute for the safety belt. The airbag
system works mos t effectively when used with
the safety belts . Therefore , a lways wear your
safety be lts correct ly.
It is important to remember that while t he sup-
plemen t al knee a irbag sys tem is designed to re-
duce t he likelihood of serious injur ies, other inju-
ries, for example, swelling, bruising and minor
abrasions and friction burns can also occur when
an airbag inflates.
The knee airbag system basically consists of :
- The elec t ronic contro l module
- Two inflatab le airbags (airbag and gas genera -
tor), one for the drive r and one fo r the front
passenge r
- The airbag indicator light in the instrument
panel
The knee airbag system will not deploy:
- when the ign ition is switched off
Airb a g sys tem
- in frontal collisions when the deceleration
measured by the control unit is too low
- in side collisions
- in rear-end collisions
- in rollovers
- in the event of a system malfunction (warn ing/
ind icator light is on) ¢
page 17 .
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WARNING
- Safety belts and the airbag system can only
provide protect io n when occupants are in
the proper seat ing position ¢
page 158.
- If the a irbag ind icator light
¢ page 17
comes when the veh icle is being used, have
the system inspected immediately by your
authorized Audi dealer. It is possib le that
the airbag will inflate when it is not sup-
posed to, or will not inflate when it should.
How knee airbags work
Applies to: vehicles wit h knee airbags
The risk of injury to the leg area can be reduced
by fully inflated knee airbags.
Fig. 160
Inflated airbags protect ing in a frontal collision
The knee airbag system has been des igned so
that the airbags for the driver and front passen-
ger dep loy in certain but not all fronta l collisions .
If the front airbags deploy, the knee airbags also
deploy in frontal coll is io ns when the deployment
threshold stored in the cont rol un it is met .
When the system deploys, the airbags fill with a
propellant gas, and inflate between the lower
part of the instrument panel and the driver a nd
the lower part of the instrument panel and the
front passenger ¢
page 158, fig. 157.
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