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smash the child seat and child against the
backrest, center armrest, door, or roof.
- Always install rearward-facing child re-
straints on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearward facing child
seat on the front passenger seat because of
exceptional circumstances and the PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF light does not come on
and stay on, immediately install the rear-
facing child seat in a rear seating position
and have the airbag system inspected by
your Audi dealer.
A
WARNING
If, in except ional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward-fac ing child restraint on t he
front passenger's seat:
- Always ma ke sure t he forward-fac ing seat
has been designed and cert ified by its man-
ufact urer fo r use on a fron t seat with a pas -
senger front and side airbag .
- Never put the forward -facing child res t raint
up against or very near the instrument pan-
el.
- Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment range, as far away from the air-
bag as possib le, before insta lling the for-
ward-facing child restra int. The backrest
must be adjusted to an upright posit ion.
-Always make sure that there is nothing on
the front passenger seat that will cause the
capacit ive passenger detection system in
the seat to signa l to the Airbag System that
the seat is occupied by a person when it is
not, or to signa l that it is occupied by some-
one who is heavier t han the person actua lly
sitting on the seat . The presence of addi-
tiona l objects could cause the passenger
front airbag to be turned on when it shou ld
be off, or could cause the airbag to work in a
way that is different from the way it would
have worked 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 ignition is switched on.
Airb a g sys tem
Advanced Airbag System components
The front passenge r seat in your vehicle has a lot
of very important parts of the Advanced Airbag
System in it. These parts include the capacitive
passenger detection system , wiring, brackets,
and more . The control unit monitors the system
on the front passenger seat when the ignition is
switched on and turns the airbag indicator light
on when a malfunction in the one of the system
components is detected
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page 202 .
Because
the front passenger seat contai ns important
parts of the Advanced Airbag System, you must
ta ke care to prevent it from being damaged.
Damage to the se at may prevent t he Advanced
Airbag System for the front passenger seat from
doing its job in a crash .
The front Advanced Airbag System consists
of the following:
- Crash senso rs in the front of the vehicle tha t
measure vehicle acceleration/dece leration to
provide information to the Advanced Airbag
System about the sever ity of the crash.
- An electronic contro l unit, with integrated
crash sensors for front and side impacts . The
control unit "decides" whether to f ire the front
airbags based on the information rece ived from
the crash sensors . The control unit also "de-
cides" whether the safety belt pretensioners
should be activated .
- An Advanced Airbag with gas generato r for the
driver ins ide the steering whee l hub .
- An Advanced Airbag with gas generator inside
the instrumen t panel for the front passenger .
- A capacit ive passenger detection system under-
neath the front passenger seat cover. This sys-
tem meas ures the electr ical capacitance of the
person in the seat . The information registered
is sent cont inuous ly to the elect ronic contro l
unit to reg ulate dep loyment of t he front Ad-
vanced Airbag on the passenger side.
- An airbag monitor ing system and indicator
light in t he inst rument clust er
c;,
page 201 .
- A senso r in each front seat registe rs t he dis-
t ance betwee n the respective sea t and the
steer ing whee l or inst rument panel. The infor-
mat ion registered is sent continuous ly to the
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