Safety Belt Pretensioners; Air Bag System - Cadillac CTS Owner's Manual

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Safety Belt Pretensioners

Your vehicle is equipped with
safety belt pretensioners.
Pretensioners help tighten the
safety belts during the early stages
of a moderate to severe frontal or
near frontal collision if the
threshold conditions for the
pretensioners are met.
The pretensioners will also help
tighten the safety belts during a
side, rollover or rear collision.
The pretensioners are located in
the driver and front passenger
safety belt assemblies.
Pretensioners work only once. If
the pretensioners are activated in a
collision, the pretensioners and
possibly other parts of the safety
belt system will need to be
replaced.
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Air Bag System

Your vehicle is equipped with two
air bags that may inflate from the
center of the steering wheel and
from the front passenger side of
the instrument panel during a
frontal collision.
The vehicle is equipped with dual-
stage frontal air bags which adjust
the amount of restraint according
to crash severity. For moderate
frontal impacts, the frontal air
bags inflate at a level less than full
deployment. For more severe
frontal impacts, full deployment
occurs.
Frontal air bags are not designed
to inflate at all in rollovers, rear
collisions, or in many side crashes.