Deactivating Airbags - Seat Ateca Owner's Manual

front door is damaged, the airbag system
may not work correctly. All work carried out
on the front door must be done in a special-
ised workshop.

Deactivating airbags

Activation and deactivation of front
passenger airbag*
Switch for activating and deactivating
Fig. 95
the front passenger airbag.
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Safety
Dash panel: control lamp for deactiva-
Fig. 96
ted front passenger airbag in centre console.
Deactivate the front passenger front airbag
only if you have to use a rear-facing child
seat in the front passenger seat.
SEAT recommends fitting the child seat in the
rear seat to avoid having to deactivate the
front passenger airbag.
Front passenger front airbag switch
When the front passenger airbag is deactiva-
ted, this means that only the front passenger
front airbag is deactivated. All the other air-
bags in the vehicle remain activated.
Disconnect the front passenger front airbag
● Switch the ignition off.
● Open the door on the front passenger side.
● Insert the key into the slot of the switch for
deactivating the front passenger airbag
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Fig. 95. About 3/4 of the key should enter;
this is as far as it will go.
● Turn the key gently to the  position. If
you have difficulty, ensure that you have in-
serted the key as far as it will go.
● Close the front passenger door.
● Check, with the ignition switched on, that
the   control lamp remains lit where it
says      in the centre of the
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dash panel Fig. 96.
Connect the front passenger front airbag
● Switch the ignition off.
● Open the front passenger door.
● Insert the key into the slot of the switch for
deactivating the front passenger airbag
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Fig. 95. About 3/4 of the key should enter,
as far as it will go.
● Turn the key gently to the  position. If you
have difficulty, ensure that you have inserted
the key as far as it will go.
Close the front passenger door.
●
● Check, with the ignition switched on, that
the   control lamp does not remain lit
where it says      in the cen-
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tre of the dash panel Fig. 96. The   con-
trol lamp lights up for 60 seconds and then
goes off.