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WARNING!
deployment could cause serious injury,
including death. Air bags need room to
inflate. Sit back, comfortably extending
your arms to reach the steering wheel or
instrument panel.
• Never place a rear-facing child restraint
in front of an air bag. A deploying pas-
senger front air bag can cause death or
serious injury to a child 12 years or
younger, including a child in a rear-
facing child restraint.
• Never install a rear-facing child restraint
in the front seat of a vehicle. Only use a
rear-facing child restraint in the rear
seat. If the vehicle does not have a rear
seat, do not transport a rear-facing child
restraint in that vehicle.
Driver And Passenger Front Air Bag Features
The Advanced Front Air Bag system has mul-
tistage driver and front passenger air bags.
This system provides output appropriate to
the severity and type of collision as deter-
mined by the Occupant Restraint Controller
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(ORC), which may receive information from
the front impact sensors (if equipped) or
other system components.
The first stage inflator is triggered immedi-
ately during an impact that requires air bag
deployment. A low energy output is used in
less severe collisions. A higher energy output
is used for more severe collisions.
This vehicle may be equipped with a driver
and/or front passenger seat belt buckle
switch that detects whether the driver or front
passenger seat belt is buckled. The seat belt
buckle switch may adjust the inflation rate of
the Advanced Front Air Bags.
This vehicle may be equipped with driver
and/or front passenger seat track position
sensors that may adjust the inflation rate of
the Advanced Front Air Bags based upon seat
position.
This vehicle has an Occupant Classification
System ("OCS") in the front passenger seat.
The OCS is designed to activate or deactivate
the Passenger Advanced Front Air Bag de-
pending on the occupant's seated weight. It
is designed to deactivate the Passenger Ad-
vanced Front Air Bag for an unoccupied seat
and for occupants whose seated weight clas-
sifies them in a category other than a properly
seated adult. This could be a child, teenager,
or even an adult.
The Passenger Air Bag Disable ("PAD") Indi-
cator Light (an amber light located on the
overhead sports bar) tells the driver and front
passenger when the Passenger Advanced
Front Air Bag is deactivated. The PAD Indi-
cator Light illuminates the words "PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF" to show that the Passen-
ger Advanced Front Air Bag will not deploy
during a collision.
NOTE:
When the front passenger seat is empty or
when very light objects are placed on the
seat, the Passenger Advanced Front Air Bag
will not deploy even though the Passenger Air
Bag Disable (PAD) System Indicator Light is
NOT illuminated.
WARNING!
• No objects should be placed over or near
the air bag on the instrument panel or
steering wheel because any such objects
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