Vauxhall Meriva Owner's Manual page 74

70 Seats, Interior
9
Warning
Keep the area in which the airbag
infla tes clea r of ob structions.
The curtain airbags will not be triggered in
the event of
z the ignition b eing switched off,
z frontal collisions,
z accidents in whic h the vehicle overturns,
z collisions involving a rear im pact,
z collisions involving a side impact outside
the passenger c ell.
Control i nd icator v for airbag systems
The func tion of the airbag systems and
seat occ upa ncy recognition 3 is m onitored
electronically and indicated via control
indica tor v. When the ignition is turned on,
the control indic ator comes on for
about 4 second s. If it does not light, does
not g o out a fter 4 seconds or comes on
during driving, there is a fault in the airbag
sy stems, the sea t occupancy recognition
sy stem 3 or the belt tensioners 3 59. The
sy stems may fail to deploy in the event of
an accident.
Deployed airbag s are indicated by
continuous illumination of v.
9
Warning
Hav e the cause of the fa ult remedied
imm ediately by a workshop.
The sy stem's integrated self-diagnostics
allows faults to b e q uick ly rem edied.
Seat occupancy recogniti on 3
The seat occupancy recognition system
deactivates the front a nd side front
passenger airbags if the front passenger
seat is unoccupied or a Vauxhall child
restraint system w ith transponders 3 has
been fitted to the front pa ssenger seat. The
curtain airb ag sy stem 3 remains activated .
The control indicator for seat occupancy
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recognition is located in the courtesy
lamp . I f this control ind ic ator
for approx. 4 seconds after the ignition is
switched on, the vehicle is equip ped with
seat oc cup anc y recog nition 3 71,
Fig. 12135 S.
If a Vaux ha ll child restraint system with
transponders 3 is fitted, this control
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indicator lights perm anently after the
ignition is switched on as soon as the
system ha s d etec ted the child restraint
system. Only then may the child restraint
system with transponders 3 b e used on the
passenger seat.
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illuminates