Airbag Inflation Condition; Front Airbag - Kia Spectra 2006 Owner's Manual

Knowing your vehicle
WARNING
• Do not hit or allow any objects
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to impact the locations where
airbag or sensors are installed.
2
This may cause unexpected
airbag deployment,
could result in serious per-
3
sonal injury or death.
• If the installation location or
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angle of the sensors is altered
in any way, the airbags may
deploy when they should not
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or they may not deploy when
they should, causing severe
injury or death.
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Therefore, do not try to per-
form maintenance
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around the airbag sensors.
Have the vehicle checked and
repaired by the authorized Kia
8
dealer.
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• Problems may arise if the sen-
sor installation angles are
changed due to the deforma-
tion of front bumper, body or
B, C pillar where side collision
which
sensors are installed. Have
the
repaired by the authorized Kia
dealer.
• Your
designed to absorb impact
and deploy the airbag(s) in
certain collisions. Installing
aftermarket bumper guards or
replacing a bumper with non-
genuine parts may adversely
on or affect your vehicles collision
and airbag deployment per-
formance.
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vehicle checked and
vehicle has been

Airbag inflation condition

Front airbag

Front airbags (driver's and front pas-
senger's airbags) are designed to
inflate when the impact is delivered
to front collision sensors depending
on the intensity, speed or angles of
impact of the front collision - general-
ly from an area a little to the left to a
little to the right of straight ahead.
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