Front Airbags - Audi TT 2012 Owner's Manual

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as defined in the electronic control unit
9 page 122, PASSENGER AIR BAC OFF light.
Always remember, a child safety seat or infant
carrier installed on the front seat may be
struck and knocked out of position by the rap-
idly inflating passenger's airbag in a frontal
collision. The airbag could greatly reduce the
effectiveness of the child restraint and even
seriously injure the child during inflation.
For this reason, and because the back seat is
the safest place for children - when properly
restrained according to their age and size - we
strongly recommend that children always sit
in the back seat
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page 133, Child Safety.
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WARNING
A child in a rearward-facing child safety
seat installed on the front passenger seat
will be seriously injured and can be killed if
the front airbag inflates - even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System.
- The inflating airbag will hit the child
safety seat or infant carrier with great
force and will smash the child safety seat
and child against the backrest, door or
roof.
- Always install rear-facing child safety
seats on the rear seat.
- Ifyou must install a rearward facing
child safety seat on the front passenger
seat because of exceptional circumstan-
ces and the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on and stay on, im-
mediately install the rear-facing child
safety seat in a rear seating position and
have the airbag system inspected by your
Audi dealer.
- Forward-facing child safety seats instal-
led on the front passenger's seat may in-
terfere with the deployment ofthe air-
bag and cause serious' personal injury to
the child.
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WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must
install a forward-facing child restraint on
the front passenger's seat:
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- Always make sure the forward-facing
seat has been designed and certified by
its manufacturer for use on a front seat
with a passenger front and side airbag.
- Never put the forward-facing child re-
straint up against or very near the instru-
ment panel.
- Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in the seat's fore and
aft adjustment range, as far away from
the airbag as possible before installing
the forward-facing child restraint. The
backrest must be adjusted to an upright
position.
- Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays on all the
time whenever the ignition is switched
on.
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WARNING
To reduce the risk of serious injury, make
sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light will be displayed whenever a child re-
straint is installed on the front passenger
seat and the ignition is switched on.
- If the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light
does not stay on, perform the checks de-
scribed
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page 122, Monitoring the Ad-
vanced Airbag System.
- Take the child restraint off the front pas-
senger seat and install it properly at one
of the rear seat positons if the PASSEN·
GER AIR BAG OFF light does not stay on.
- Have the airbag system inspected by
your Audi dealer immediately.
- Always carefully follow instructions from
child restraint manufacturers when in-
stalling child restraints.
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WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must
install a forward or rearward-facing child
restraint on the front passenger's seat:
- Improper installation of child restraints
can reduce their effectiveness or even
prevent them from providing any protec-
tion. ~
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- -_ An improperly installed child restraint
can interfere with the airbag as it de-
ploys and seriously injure or even kill the
child - even with an Advanced Airbag
System.
_ Always carefully follow the manufactur-
er's instructions provided with the child
safety seat or carrier.
_ Never place additional items on the seat
that can increase the total weight regis-
tered by the weight-sensing mat and can
cause injury in a crash.
Front airbags
Description of front airbags
The airbag system can pravide supplemental
protection ta praperly restrained front seat
occupants.
Fig. 112 Location of driver airbag: in steering wheel
Fig. 113 Location offront passenger's airbag: in the in-
strument panel
Your vehicle is equipped with an "Advanced
Airbag System" in compliance with United
States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
(FMVSS) 208 as applicable at the time your
vehicle was manufactured. The safety belts
for the front seats have "pretensioners" that
help to take slack out of the belt system. The
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pretensioners are also activated by the elec-
tronic control unit for the airbag system.
The front safety belts also have load limiters
to help reduce the forces applied to the body
in a crash.
The airbag for the driver is in the steering
wheel hub
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fig. 112 and the airbag for the
front passenger is in the instrument panel
9fig. 113. The generallocation of the airbags
is marked "AIRBAG".
There is a lot you need to know about the air-
bags in your vehicle. We urge you to read the
detailed information about airbags, safety
belts and child safety in this and the other
chapters that make up the owner's literature.
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be sure to heed the WARNINGS - they
are extremely important for your safety and
the safety of your passengers, especially in-
fants and small children.
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WARNING
Never rely on airbags alone for protection.
- Even when they deploy, airbags provide
only supplemental protection.
- Airbag work most effectively when used
with properly worn safety belts.
- Therefore, always wear your safety belts
and make sure that everybody in your ve-
hicle is properly restrained.
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WARNING
A person on the front passenger seat, es-
pecially infants and small children, will re-
ceive serious injuries and can even be kil-
Led by being too close to the airbag when
it inflates.
- Although the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle is designed to turn off the
front passenger airbag if an infant or a
small child is on the front passenger
seat, nobody can absolutely guarantee
that deployment under these special
conditions is impossible in all conceiva-
ble situations that may happen during
the usefullife of your vehicle.