Audi R8 2017 Owner's Manual page 208

Child safety
- Never install a rearward facing child safety
seat on the front passenger seat if the PAS-
SENGER AIR BAG OFF,;; light does not
turn on and stay on. Have the system in-
spected immediately by an authorized Audi
dealer or authorized Audi Service Facility.
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WARNING
- Forward-facing child seats installed on the
front passenger seat may interfere with the
deployment of the airbag and cause serious
personal injury to the child.
- If exceptional circumstances require the use
of a forward-facing child restraint on the
front passenger's seat, the child's safety
and well-being require the following special
precautions to be taken:
- Always make sure that the forward-facing
seat has been designed and certified by its
manufacturer for use on a front passenger
seat with a front and side airbag.
- Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instructions provided with the child seat
or infant carrier.
- Never put the forward-facing child re-
straint up against or very near the instru-
ment panel.
- Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest position in the up and down
adjustment range and move it back to the
rearmost position in the seat's fore and
aft adjustment range, as far away from
the airbag as possible, before installing
the forward-facing child restraint .
- Always make sure that the safety belt up-
per anchorage is behind the child restraint
and not next to or in front of the child re-
straint so that the safety belt will be prop-
erly positioned .
- Always make sure that nothing prevents
the front passenger's seat from being
moved to the rearmost position in its fore
and aft adjustment range.
- Never place objects on the seat (such as a
laptop, CD player, electronic games de-
vice, power inverter or seat heater for
child seats). These may influence the elec-
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trical capacitance measured by the capaci-
tive passenger detection system and can
also fly around in an accident and cause
serious personal injury.
- Never place or use any electrical device
(such as a laptop, CD player, electronic
games device, power inverter or seat heat -
er for child seats) on the front passenger
seat if the device is connected to the 12-
volt socket or the cigarette lighter socket.
- If a seat heater has been retrofitted or
otherwise added to the front passenger
seat, never install any child restraint sys-
tem on this seat.
- Make sure that there are no wet objects
(such as a wet towel) and no water or oth-
er liquids on the front passenger seat
cushion.
- Always make sure that the PASSENGER
AIR BAG OFF,; ; light comes on and stays
on all the time whenever the ignition is
switched on.
- Never install a forward-facing child safety
seat on the front passenger seat if the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF~ ; light does
not turn on and stay on. Have the system
inspected immediately by an authorized
Audi dealer or authorized Audi Service Fa-
cility .
- Always buckle the child seat firmly in
place even if a child is not sitting in it. A
loose child seat can fly around during a
sudden stop or in a collision.
-Always read and heed all WARNINGS
whenever using a child restraint in a vehi-
cle~ page 174, Safety belts,
~
page 181,
Airbag system
and
~ page 205, Impor-
tant information.
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Tips
Always replace child restraints that were in-
stalled in a vehicle during a crash . Damage to
a child restraint that is not visible could cause
it to fail in another collision situation.