Audi R8 2017 Owner's Manual page 211

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Push the child safety seat down with your full
weight to get the safety be lt really tight so that
the seat cannot move forward and sideways
more than 1 in (2.5 cm).
Always remember: Even though your vehicle is
equipped with an Advanced Airbag system, a
child should always ride in the seat properly re-
strained for its age and size.
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WARNING
Not using a ch ild safety seat, using the wrong
child safety seat or improperly installing a
child restra int increases the risk of se rious
personal injury and death .
- All veh icle occupants and especially children
must be restrained properly whenever riding
in a vehicle. An unrestrained or improperly
restra ined child could be injured by striking
the interior or by being ejected from the ve-
hicle during a sudden maneuver or impact .
An unrestrained or improper ly restrained
child is also at greater risk of injury or death
through contact with an inflating airbag .
- Commercially available child safety seats
are required to comply with U.S. Federa l
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 213
(in Canada CMVSS 213) .
- When buying a ch ild restraint, se lect one
that fits your child and the vehicle .
- Only use child restraint systems that fully
contact the flat portion of the seat cush-
ion. The child restraint must not tip or
lean to either side. Audi does not recom-
mend using child safety seats that rest on
legs or tube- like frames. They do not pro-
vide adequate contact with the seat.
- Always heed all legal requirements per-
taining to the installation and use of child
safety seats and carefully follow the in-
structions provided by the manufacturer
of the seat you are using .
- Never let more than one child occupy a child
safety seat.
- Never let babies or older chi ldren ride in a
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Ch ild safety
- Holding a child in your arms is never a sub-
stitute for a child restraint system.
- The strongest person cou ld not ho ld the
child with the forces that exist in an acci-
dent. The child will strike the interior of
the vehicle and can also be struck by the
passenger .
- The child and the passenger can also in-
jure each other in an accident.
- Never install rear-facing child safety seats
or infant carriers on the front passenger
seat . A child w ill be seriously injured and
can be killed when the passenger a irbag in-
flates - even with an Advanced Airbag Sys-
tem.
- The inflat ing airbag will hit the ch ild safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the child safety seat and child
against t he backrest, cente r armres t , door
or roof .
- If exceptional circums t ances requ ire t he use
of a forward-facing child restraint on the
front passenger's seat, the chi ld's safety
and well-being requ ire that the following
specia l preca utions be taken:
- Make sure the forward-facing seat has
been designed and ce rtified by its manu-
fact urer for use on a fron t seat with a pas-
senger front and side airbag.
- Always carefully fo llow the manufactu rer's
inst ruct ions prov ided with the ch ild safety
seat or carrier.
- Always move the front passenger seat into
the rearmost position of the passenger
seat's fo re and aft adjustment range, and
as far away from the airbag as possib le be-
fore installing the child restraint.
- 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.
- Always make sure that the backrest is in
the upright posit ion.
- Never place or use any electrical device
(such as a laptop, CD player, electronic
games device, power inverter or seat heat-
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