Front Seat Belt Pretensioner And Load Limiting Systems - Mazda Mazda5 Owner's Manual

Essential Safety Equipment
Seat Belt Systems
When using the centre-rear seat belt, refer
to Centre-Rear Position Seat Belt (page
2-31).
To secure the rear outboard seat belts
when not in use, insert the belts into their
seat belt retainers.
Seat belt
retainer
qFront Shoulder Belt Adjuster
To raise
Make sure the adjuster is locked.
2-28
To lower
Front Seat Belt Pretensioner
and Load Limiting Systems
For optimum protection, the driver and
front passenger seat belts are equipped
with pretensioner and load limiting
systems. For both these systems to work
properly you must wear the seat belt
properly.
Pretensioners:
In moderate or severe frontal or near-
frontal accidents, the front air bag and
pretensioner systems deploy
simultaneously. The front seat belt
retractors remove slack quickly as the air
bags are expanding. Any time the air bags
and seat belt pretensioners have fired they
must be replaced.
Load limiter:
The load limiting system releases belt
webbing in a controlled manner to reduce
belt force on the occupant's chest. While
the most severe load on a seat belt occurs
in frontal collisions, the load limiter has
an automatic mechanical function and can
activate in any accident mode with
sufficient occupant movement.
Even if the pretensioners have not fired,
the load limiting function must be
checked by an expert repairer, we
recommend an Authorised Mazda
Repairer.