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- a small adu lt or teenager is on the front pas-
senger seat
- a passenger who is not sitting upright w ith
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 deploys, the
Federal Standard requires the airbag to meet
the "low risk" deployment criteria to help re-
duce the risk of injury through interaction
with the airbag. "Low risk" deployment occurs
in those crashes that take place at lower de-
celerations as defined in the electron ic control
un it
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Always remember: Please be sure to read the
important information in the sections that
follow and be sure to heed all of the WARN-
INGS.
A
WARNING
To reduce the risk of injury when an ai rbag
inflates, a lways wear safety belts prope rly.
- If
you are unrestrained, lean ing forward,
sitting sideways or out of position in any
way, your risk of injury is much higher.
- You w ill also receive serious inju ries and
cou ld even be killed if you are up against
the a irbag or t oo close to it whe n it in-
flates - even with an Advanced Airbag
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WARNING
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A child in a rearward-facing child safety
seat installed on the front passenger seat
w ill be seriously injured and can be killed if
the front a irbag inf lates - even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System.
- Although the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle is designed to turn off the
front a irbag when a rearward-fac ing
child restraint has been installed on the
front passenger seat, nobody can abso-
lute ly guarantee that deployment is im-
poss ible in al l conceivable situations th at
may happen d uring the useful life of your
vehicle.
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- The inflating airbag will hit the ch ild
safety seat or infant carrier with great
force and will smash the child safety seat
and child against the backrest, doo r, or
roof.
- If you must install a rearward fac ing
child safety seat on the front passenger
seat because of exceptional circumstan-
ces and t he PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on and stay on have
the airbag sys t em ins pected by your Audi
dea ler.
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WARNING
If, in except iona l circumstances, you must
install a forward -facing child restraint on
the front passenger's seat:
- Always make sure the forward -facing
seat has been designed and certified by
its manufacturer for use on a front seat
with a passenger front and s ide a irbag.
- Never put the forward-facing child re -
straint up against or very near the instru-
ment panel.
- Always move the passenger seat into its
rea rmost pos ition in the seat's fore and
aft adj ustment range, as far away from
the airbag as possible, before installing
the forward-fac ing ch ild restra int. The
backrest must be adju sted to an upright
position.
- Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays o n all the
time wheneve r the ignit io n is swit ched
on.
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
weight-sensing
mat, sensors, wiring, brack-
ets, and more. The funct ion of the system in
the front passenger seat is checked by the
electronic control unit when the ignition is on .
The cont rol unit monito rs the Advanced Air-
bag System and turns the airbag indicator
ligh t on when a malfunct ion in the system
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