Why Didn't My Air Bag Go Off In A Collision - Kia Soul 2020 Owner's Manual

Safety features of your vehicle
WARNING
Air bag sensors
• Do not hit or allow any objects to
impact the locations where air
bags or sensors are installed.
This may cause unexpected air
bag deployment, which could
result in serious personal injury or
death.
• If the installation location or angle
of the sensors is altered in any
way, the air bags may deploy
when they should not or they
may not deploy when they
should.
Therefore, do not try to perform
maintenance on or around the air
bag sensors. Have the vehicle
checked and repaired by an
authorized Kia dealer.
Problems may arise if the sensor
installation angles are changed due
to the deformation of the front
bumper, front end module, body or
front doors where side collision sen -
sors are installed. Have the vehicle
checked and repaired by an autho -
rized Kia dealer.
Installing bumper guards (or side
step or running board) or replacing a
bumper (or front door module) with
non-genuine parts may adversely
affect your vehicle's collision and air
bag deployment performance.
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Air bag - advanced supplemental restraint
Why didn't my air bag go off in a
collision? (Inflation and non-infla -
tion conditions of the air bag)
There are many types of accidents
in which the air bag would not be
expected to provide additional pro -
tection.
These include rear impacts, second
or third collisions in multiple impact
accidents, as well as low speed
impacts.
Air bag inflation conditions
Front air bags
Front air bags are designed to
inflate in a frontal collision depend -
ing on the severity of impact of the
front collision.
Side and/or curtain air bags
Side and/or curtain air bags are
designed to inflate when an impact
is detected by side collision sensors
depending on the severity of impact
resulting from a side impact colli -
sion.
Also, the side and curtain air bags
are designed to inflate when a roll -
over is detected by a rollover sensor.
Although the front air bags (driver's
and front passenger's air bags) are
primarily designed to inflate in fron -
tal collisions, they may inflate in
other types of collisions if the front
impact sensors detect a sufficient
frontal force in another type of
impact.
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