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- a small adu lt o r teenager is on the front pas -
senger seat
- a passenger who is not sitting uprigh t with
their back against a non-reclined backrest with
their feet on the vehicle floor in front of the
seat is on the front passenger seat.
If the front passenger airbag dep loys , the Feder -
al Standard requires the airbag to meet the "low
risk" deployment criteria to help reduce the risk
of injury through interaction with the airbag.
"Low risk" dep loyment occurs in those crashes
t ha t take place at lower decelera t ions as defined
in the electronic control unit.
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Always reme mber: Even though your vehicle is
equipped w ith Advanced Airbags, the safest place
for children is properly restrained on the back
seat . Please be sure to read the important infor -
mat ion in the sections that follow and be sure to
heed all of the WARNINGS.
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WARNING
To reduce the risk of injury when an a irbag in-
flates, a lways wear safety belts properly.
- If you are unrest rained, leaning fo rwa rd, sit-
t ing s ideways or out of pos ition in any way,
your risk of inju ry is much higher .
- You will also receive serious injur ies and
cou ld even be killed if you are up aga inst t he
airbag or too close to it when it inflates -
even with an Advanced Airbag
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WARNING
A child in a rearward-facing chi ld safety seat
installed on the front passenge r seat will be
ser iously injured and can be killed if the front
airbag inflates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System .
- Although the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle is designed to turn off the front
airbag when a rearward-facing child re -
straint has been installed on the front pas-
senger seat, nobody can absolu t ely g uaran-
tee that deployment is impossible in a ll con-
ceivable situations that may happen during
the useful life of your vehicle .
- The inflating a irbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier wit h great force and
Airb a g sys tem
will smash the child safety seat and child
aga inst the backrest, center armrest, door,
or roof.
- Always install rearward-facing child re-
stra ints in the back seat.
- If you must install a rearward facing child
safety seat on the front passenger seat be-
cause of exceptional circumstances and the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on and stay on, immediately install
the rea r-facing child safety seat in a rear
seating position and have the a irbag system
inspected by your aut horized Audi dealer.
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WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances , you must in-
stall a forward-facing child rest raint on the
front passenger's seat:
- Always make sure the forward-fa cing seat
has bee n des igned and certified by its man-
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side airbag.
- Never put the fo rward-facing child restraint
up against or very near the instr ument pan·
el.
- Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in the seat's fore 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. The backrest
must be adjusted to an upr ight position .
- 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 the Advanced Airbag
System in it. These parts include the weight -
sensing mat, senso rs, wir ing , bracke t s, and
more . The function of the system in the front
passenger seat is checked by the electronic con-
tro l unit when the ign ition is on . The control unit
monitors the Advanced Airbag System and turns
the a irbag ind icator light on when a malfunction
in the system components is detected. The func-
tion of the a irbag ind icator light is described in
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