Side Air Bags (Side Bag - Window Bag) - Alfa Romeo 159 Owner's Handbook Manual

❒ passenger's front air bag and knees
air bag (for versions/markets, where
provided) and side bag deactivated
(OFF position F): warning light
F on front ceiling light panel on;
it is possible to carry a child protect-
ed by special restraint systems on the
front seat.
F
The warning light on front ceiling
light panel stays on permanently until the
passenger's air bags are reactivated.
Passenger's air bags deactivation will
not inhibit the operation of the head pro-
tection side bag (Window Bag).
SIDE AIR BAGS
(Side bag -
Window bag)
The car is fitted with front side bags for
driver and passenger for protecting the
chest and window bags for protecting front
and rear occupant's head.
Side bags protect car occupants from
side crashes of medium-high severity, by
placing the cushion between the occu-
pant and the internal parts of the side
structure of the car.
Non-activation of side bags in other
types of collisions (front collisions, rear
shunts, roll-overs, etc...) is not a system
malfunction.
In case of side crash, an electronic con-
trol unit, when required triggers the in-
flation of the cushion. The cushion im-
mediately inflates, placing itself as a pro-
tection, between the occupant's body
and the structure that could cause in-
juries. Immediately after, the cushion de-
flates.
fig. 19
Side air bags are not a replacement of
but complementary to the belts, which
you are recommended to always wear,
as specified by law in Europe and most
non-European countries.
FRONT SIDE BAGS -
CHEST AND PELVIS
ZONE PROTECTION
They are composed by two types of in-
stant inflation cushions and are housed
in the back rest of the front seats fig.
19. The task of the side air bags is to
increase protection of the occupants'
chest and pelvis zone in the event of a
side crash of medium-high severity.
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