Child Safety Seats - Audi TT 2012 Owner's Manual

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Fig. 121 Schematic overview: installation of the at-
tachments applicable ta a LATCH seat
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When using the vehicle safety belt ta install
a child safety seat, you must first activate
the convertible locking feature on the safety
belt to prevent the child safety seat from
moving q
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143 or install the seat using
the LATCH attachments.
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Push the child safety seat down with your
full weight ta get the safety belt really tight
sa that the seat cannat move forwa rd or
sideways more than one inch (2.5 cm)
qpage 143.
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If the child safety seat is equipped with a
tether strap, attach it ta the tether anchors
qpage 149.
A toddler or child is usually tao large for an in-
fant restraint if it is more than one year old
and weighs more than 20 lbs. (9 kg).
Toddlers and children who are older than one
year up ta about 4 years old and weigh more
Fig. 122 Schematic overview: installation of the seat
using the vehicle's safety belt system
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Child Safety
Convertible child safety seats
Properly used convertible child safety seats
con help protect toddlers and chi/dren over
age one who weigh between 20 and 40 lbs. (9
and 18 kg) in a crash.
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~ WARNING
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Not using a child safety seat, using the
wrong child safety seat or improperly in-
stalling a child restraint increases the risk
of serious personal injury and death in a
crash.
_ Never install rear-facing child safety
seats or infant carriers on the front pas-
senger seat - even with an Advanced Air-
bag System. A child will be seriously in-
jured and can be killed when the inflat-
ing airbag hits the child safety seat or in-
fant carrier with great force and smashes
the child safety seat and child against
the backrest, door or roofqpage 113,
Child restraints on the front seat -
some
important things to know.
_ Always install rear-facing child safety
seats or infant carriers on the rear seat.
_ Never install a rear-facing child restraint
in the forward-facing direction. 5uch re-
straints are designed for the special
needs of infants and very small children
and cannat protect them properly if the
seat is forward-facing.
- 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.
- Always read and heed all WARNING5
whenever using a child restrained in a ve-
hicle is being used qpage 103, Safety
belts, qpage
111,
Airbag system
and
q
page
133,
Important things to know.
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Infant seats ' .
Fig. 120 Schematic overview: rearward-facing infant
seat, properly installed on the rear seat
Babies and infants up to about one year old
and 20 lbs. or 9 kg need special rearward-fac_
ing child restraints that support the back,
neck and head in a crash.
Chi ld safety seats
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When using the vehicle safety belt ta install
a child safety seat, you must first activate
the convertible locking retractor on the
safety belt to prevent the child safety seat
from moving q page 143 or install the seat
using the LATCH attachments.
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Push the child safety seat down with your
full weight ta get the safety belt really tight
sa that the seat carnot move forward or
sideways more than one inch (2.5 cm).
Infants up ta about one year (20 lbs. or 9 kg)
are best protected in special infant carriers
and child safety sea
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designed for their age
group. Many experts beli'eve that infants and
small children should ride only in special re-
straints in which the child faces the back of
the vehicle. These infant seats support the ba-
by's back, neck and head in a crash q fig. 120.
The airbag on the passenger side makes the
front seat a potentially dangerous place for a
child to ride. The front seat is not the safest
place for a child in a forward-facing child seat.
lt is a very dangerous place for an infant or a
larger child in a rearward-facing seat.
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as possible before installing the child
restraint.
- Always make sure that nothing pre-
vents the front passenger's seat from
being moved ta the rearmost position
in its fore and aft adjustment range,
- Always make sure that the backrest is
in the upright position.
- Always buckle the child safety seat firmly
in place even if a child is not sitting in it.
A loose child safety seat can fly around
during a sudden stop or in a collision.
- Always read and heed all WARNING5
whenever using a child restrained in a ve-
hicle is being used
qpage 103, Safety
belts,
q
page
111,
Airbag system
and
q page 133, Child Safety.
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WARNING
Ta reduce the risk of serious injury, make
sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light cames on and stays on whenever a
child restraint is installed on the front pas-
senger seat and the ignition is switched
on.
- Take the child restraint off the front pas-
senger seat and install it properly at one
of the rear seat positions if the PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF light does not stay on.
- Have the airbag system inspected by
your authorized Audi dealer immediate-
ly.
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WARNING
A child in a child restraint installed with
the LATCH lower anchorages or with the
standard safety belt on the rear seat may
play with unused rear seat safety belts and
become entangled resulting in serious per-
sonal injury and even death.
- Always buckle unused rear seat safety
belts out of reach of children in child
seats and properly activate the converti-
ble locking retractor sa that the child
cannat unreel the safety belt from the
retractor.