Important Things To Know - Audi TT 2012 Owner's Manual

110 Safety belts
these regulations and will be pleased to
pass on the information to you.
- Be sure to observe all safety, environ-
mental and other regulations if the vehi-
cle or individual parts of the system, par-
ticularly the safety belt or airbag, are to
be disposed. We recommend you have
your authorized Audi dealer perform this
service for you.
Service and disposai of safety belt
pretensioner
The safety belt pretensioners are parts of the
safety belts on your Audi. Installing, remov-
ing, servicing or repairing of belt pretension-
ers can damage the safety belt system and
prevent it from working correctly in a colli-
sion.
There are some important things you have to
know to make sure that the effectiveness of
the system will not be impaired and that dis-
carded components do not cause injury or pol-
lute the environment.
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WARNING
Improper care, servicing and repair proce-
dures can increase the risk of personal in-
jury and death by preventing a safety belt
pretensionerfrom activating when needed
or activating it unexpectedly:
- The belt pretensioner system can be acti-
vated only once. If belt pretensioners
have been activated, the system must be
replaced.
- Never repair, adjust, or change any parts
of the safety belt system.
- Safety belt systems including safety belt
pretensioners cannot be repaired. Spe-
cial procedures are required for removal,
installation and dispos.al of this system.
- For any work on the safety belt system,
we strongly recommend that you see
your authorized Audi dealer or qualified
technician who has an Audi approved re-
pair manual, training and special equip-
ment necessary.
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For the sake of the
environment
Undeployed airbag modules and preten-
sioners might be classified as Perchlorate
Material-special handling may apply, see
www.dtsc.ca.gov/hazardouswaste/per-
chlorate. When the vehicle or parts of the
restraint system including airbag modules
safety belts with pretensioners are scrap-
ped, all applicable laws and regulations
must be observed. Your authorized Audi
dealer is familiar with these requirements
and we recommend that you have your
dealer perform this service for you.
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Airbag system
Important things to
kn ow
Importance of wearing safety belts and
sitting properly
Airbags are only supplemental restraints. For
airbags to do their job, occupants must al-
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properly wear their safety belts and be
in a proper seating position.
For your safety and the safety of your passen-
gers, before driving off, always:
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Adjust the driver's seat and steering wheel
properly
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Adjust the front passenger's seat properly
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Wear safety belts properly
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Always properly use the proper child re-
straint to protect children
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page 133.
In a collision airbags must inflate within the
blink of an eye and with considerable force.
The supplemental airbags can cause injuries if
the driver or the front seat passenger are not
seated properly. Therefore in order to help the
airbag to do its job, it is important, both as a
driver and as a passenger to sit properly at all
times.
By keeping room between your body and the
steering wheel and the front of the passenger
compartment, the airbag can inflate fully and
completely and provide supplemental protec-
tion in certain frontal collisions
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page 94,
Proper occupant seating positions. For details
on the operation of the seat adjustment con-
trats
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58 and
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59.
It's especially important that children are
properly restrained
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page 133.
There is a lot that the driver and the passen-
gers can and must do to help the individual
safety features installed in your Audi work to-
gether as a system.
Proper seating.position is important so that
the front airbag on the driver side can do its
Job. Ifyou have a physical impairment or con-
Airbag system Il]
dition that prevents you from sitting properly
on the driver seat with the safety belt properly
fastened and reaching the pedals, or ifyou
have concerns with regard to the function or
operation ofthe Advanced Airbag System,
please contact your authorized Audi dealer or
qualified workshop, or call Audi Customer
CARE at 1-800-822-2834 for possible modifi-
cations to your vehicle.
When the airbag system deploys, agas gener-
ator will fill the airbags, break open the pad-
ded covers, and inflate between the steering
wheel and the driver and between the instru-
ment panel and the front passenger. The air-
bags will deftate immediately after deploy-
ment
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that the front occupants can see
throuflh the windshield again without inter-
ruption.
All of this takes place in the blink of an eye,
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fast that many people don't even realize that
the airbags have deployed. The airbags also
inflate with a great deal offorce and nothing
should be in their way when they deploy.
Front airbags in combination with properly
worn safety belts slow down and limit the oc-
cupant's forward movement. Together they
help to prevent the driver and front seat pas-
senger from hitting parts of the inside the ve-
hicle while reducing the forces acting on the
occupant during the crash. In this way they
help to reduce the risk of injury to the head
and upper body in the crash. Airbags do not
protect the arms or the lower parts of the
body.
Both front airbags will not inflate in all frontal
collisions. The triggering of the airbag system
depends on the vehicle deceleration rate
caused by the collision and registered by the
electronic control unit. If this rate is below
the reference value programmed into the con-
trol unit, the airbags will not be triggered,
even though the car may be badly damaged as
a result of the collision. Vehicle damage, re-
pair costs or even the lack ofvehicle damage
is not necessarily an indication ofwhether an
airbag should inflate or not.
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