Audi TT 2012 Owner's Manual page 72

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WARNING
Not using a booster seat, using the boos-
ter seat improperly, incorrectly installing a
booster seat or using the vehicle safet y .
belt improperly increases the risk of sert-
l 'lnJ'ury and death in a colliSion
ous persona
or other emergency situation. To help re-
duce the risk of serious personal injury
and/or death:
vehicle's three point lap and shoulder belts.
Never use the lap belt portion of the vehicle's
safety belt alone to restrain any child, regard-
less of how big the child is. Always remember
that children do not have the pronounced pel-
vic structure required for the proper function
of lap belt portion of the vehicle's three point
lap and shoulder belts. The child's safety ab-
solutely requires that a lap belt portion of the
safety belt be fastened snugly and as low as
possible around the pelvis. Never let the lap
belt portion of the safety belt pass over the
child's stomach or abdomen.
In a crash, airbags must inflate within a blink
of an eye and with considerable force. In order
to do itsjob, the airbag needs room to Inflate
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that it will be there to protect the occupant
as the occupant moves forward into the air-
bag.
Avehicle occupant who is out of position and
too close to the airbag gets in the way of an
inflating airbag. When an occupant is too
close, he or she will be struck violently and
will receive serious or possibly even fatal In-
jury.
In order for the airbag to offer protection, it is
important that all vehicle occupants, especlal-
ly any children, who must be in the front seat
because of exceptional circumstances, be
properly restrained and as far away from the
airbag as possible. By keeping room between
the child's body and the front of the passen-
ger compartment, the airbag can inflate com-
pletely and provide supplemental protection
in certain frontal collisions.
Booster seats raise these children up so that
the safety belt will pass properly over the
stronger parts of their bodies and the safety
belt can help protect them in a crash.
• Do not use the convertible locking retractor
when using the vehicle's safety belt to re-
strain a child on a booster seat.
• Always position the shoulder portion of the
safety belt midway over the child's shoulder.
• Always make sure that the shoulder portion
of the safety belt never rests against or
across the child's neck.
• Always make sure that the child can proper-
ly wear the lap portion of the belt low across
the thighs or pelvis and
never over the
stomach or abdomen.
It is usually best to put these children in ap-
propriate booster seats. Be sure the booster
seat meets all applicable safety standards.
Booster seats raise the seating position of the
child and reposition both the lap and shoulder
parts of the safety belt
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that they pass
across the child's body in the right places. The
routing of the belt over the child's body is very
important for the child's protection, whether
or not a booster seat is used. Children age 12
and under must always ride in the rear seat.
Children who are at least 4 ft. 9 in. (57 in-
ches/1.45 meters) tall can generally use the
Booster seats and safety belts
Fig. 123 Rear seat: child properly restrained in a boos-
ter seat
ly
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sed booster seats con help protect
proper
children weighing between about 40 lbs. and
80 lbs. (lB kg and 36 kg) who are less than 4
ft.
9 in. (57 inches/1.45 meters) tall.
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WARNING
If exceptional circumstances require the
use of a forward-facing child restraint on
the front passenger's seat, the child's safe-
ty and well-being require that the follow-
ing special precautions be taken:
- Make sure the forward-facing seat has
been designed and certified by its manu-
facturer for use on a front seat with a
passenger front and si de airbag.
- Always follow the manufacturer's in-
structions provided with the child safety
seat or infant carrier.
- Always move the front passenger seat in-
to the rearmost position of the passen-
ger seat's fore and aft adjustment range,
and as far away from the airbag as possi-
ble before installing the child restraint.
- Always make sure that nothing prevents
the front passenger's seat from being
moved to the rearmost position in its
fore and aft adjustment range.
- Always make sure the backrest is in an
upright position.
- Make sure that the PASSENCER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays on all the
time whenever the ignition is switched
on.
- If the light does not stay on, perform the
checks ~ page 122, Monitoring the Ad-
vanced Airbag Sys~m.
- Take the child restrain off the front pas-
senger seat and install it properly at one
of the rear seat positions if the PASSEN-
GER AIR BAC OFF light does not stay on
whenever the ignition is switched on.
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WARNING
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
collision or other emergency situation.
- Children on the front seat of any car,
even with Advanced Airbags, can be seri-
ously injured or even killed when an air-
bag inflates. 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 in-
flates - even with an Advanced 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.
- If you must install a rearward facing
child safety seat on the front passenger
seat because of exceptional circumstan-
ces and the PASSENCER AIR BAC 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 WARNINGS
whenever using a child restrained in a ve-
hicle is being used
~
page 103, Safety
belts,
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page 111, Airbag system and
~ page 133, Important things ta know.
Child Safety
than 20 lbs. (9 kg) up to 40 lbs. (18 kg) must
always be properly restrained in a child safety
seat certified for their size and weight
~fig. 121 and ~fig. 122.
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 safe-
ty seat. Tt is a very dangerous place for an in-
fant or a larger child in a rearward-facing seat.