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- The Advanced Airbag System can deploy
in accorda nce with the "low risk" option
under the U.5. Federal Standard if a child
that is heavier than the typical one-year
old child is on the front passenger seat
and the other conditions for airbag de-
ployment are met.
- Accident statistics have shown that ch il-
dren are generally safer in the rear seat
area than in the front seating position.
- For their own safety, all children, espe-
cially 12 years and younger, should al-
ways ride in the back properly restrained
for their age and size.
Advanced front airbag system
Vour vehicle is equipped with a front Advanced
Airbag System in compliance with United
States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
208 as applicable at the time your vehicle was
manufactured.
The front Advanced Airbag System supple-
ments the safety belts to provide additional
protection for the driver's and front passeng-
er's heads and upper bodies in frontal crashes.
The airbags inflate only in frontal impacts
when the vehicle deceleration is high enough.
The front Advanced Airbag System for the
front seat occupants is not a substitute for
your safety belts. Rather, it is part of the over-
all occupant restraint system in your vehicle.
Always remember that the airbag system can
only help to protect you, if you are sitting up-
right, wearing your safety belt and wearing it
properly. This is why you and your passengers
must always be properly restrained, notjust
because the law requires you to be.
The Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
has been certified to meet the "low risk" re-
quirements for 3 and 6 year-old children on
the passenger side and very small adults on
the driver side. The low risk deployment crite-
ria are intended to help reduce the risk of in-
jury through interaction with the front airbag
that can occur, for example, by being too
close to the steering wheel and instrument
panel when the airbag inflates.
In addition, the system has been certified to
comply with the "suppression" requirements
of the Safety Standard, to turn off the front
airbag for infants 12 months old and younger
who are restrained on the front passenger
seat in child restraints that are listed in the
Standard
Qpage
135,
Child restraints and
Advanced Airbags.
"Suppression" requires the front airbag on the
passenger side to be tu rned off if:
- a child up to about one year of age is re-
strained on the front passenger seat in one
of the rear-facing or forward-facing infant
restraints listed in Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 with which the Ad-
vanced Airbag System in your vehicle was
certified. For a listing of the child restraints
that were used to certify your vehicle's com-
pliance with the US Safety Standard
Qpage 135,
- weight less than a threshold level stored in
the control unit is detected on the front pas-
senger seat.
When a person is detected on the front pas-
senger seat, weighing more than the total
weight of a child that is about 1 year old re-
strained in one of the rear-facing or forward-
facing infant restraints (listed in Federal Mo-
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tor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with which
the Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
was certified), the front airbag on the passen-
ger side may or may not deploy.
The PASSENGER
AIR BAG OFF light comes on
when the electronic control unit detects a to-
tal weight on the front passenger seat that re-
quires the front airbag to be turned off. Ifthe
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on, the front airbag on the passenger
side has not been turned off by the control
unit and can deploy if the control unit senses
an impact that meets the conditions stored in
its memory.
If the total weight on the front passenger
seat is more than that of a typical1 year-old,
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but less than the weight of a small adult, the
front airbag on the passenger side may deploy
(the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
conne on).
For example, the airbag may deploy if:
_ a snnall child that is heavier than a typical1
year-ol d child is on the front passenger seat
(regardless of whether the child is in one of
the child safety seats listed
Q
page 135),
_ a child who has outgrown child restraints is
on the front passenger seat.
If the front passenger airbag is turned off, the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light in the center
ofthe instrument panel will come on and stay
on.
The front airbag on the passenger side may
not
deploy (the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not illuminate and stay lit) if:
_ a small adult or teenager is on the front pas-
senger seat
_ a passenger who is not sitting upright with
their back against a non-reclined backrest
with their feet on the vehicle floor in front
of the seat is on the front passenger seat.
If the front passenger airbag deploys, the
Federal Standard requires the airbag to meet
the "low risk" deployment criteria to help re-
duce the risk of injury through interaction
with the airbag. "Low risk" deployment occurs
in those crashes that take place at lower de-
celerations as defined in the electronic control
unit
Qpage 122.
Always remember: Even though your vehicle
is equipped with Advanced Airbags, the safest
place for children is properly restrained on the
back seat. Please be sure to read the impor-
tant information in the sections that follow
and be su re to heed all of the WARNINGS.
A
WARNING
To reduce the risk of injury when an airbag
inflates, always wear safety belts properly.
- If you are unrestrained, leaning forward,
sitting sideways or out of position in any
way, your risk of injury is much higher.
- Vou will also receive serious injuries and
could even be killed ifyou are up against
the airbag or too close to it when it in-
flates - even with an Advanced Airbag
Qpage 111.
A
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.
_ Although the Advanced Airbag System in
. your vehicle is designed to turn off the
front airbag when a rearward-facing
child restraint has been installed on the
. front passenger seat, nobody can abso-
lutely guarantee that deployment is im-
possible in all conceivable situations that
may happen during the usefullife of your
vehicle.
_ 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 rearward-facing child re-
straints in the back seat.
- If you 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.
A
WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must
install a forward-facing child restraint on
the front passenger's seat:
_ 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.
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