Kia Niro Owner's Manual page 95

Safety features of your vehicle
WARNING
• Do not hit or allow any objects
to impact the locations where
air bag or sensors are installed.
This may cause unexpected
air bag deployment, which
could result in serious per-
sonal 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, causing severe
injury or death.
Therefore, do not try to per-
form maintenance
around the air bag sensors.
We recommend that the sys-
tem be serviced by an author-
ized Kia dealer.
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• Problems may arise if the sen-
sor installation angles are
changed due to the deforma-
tion of the front bumper, body
or front door and B/C pillars
where side collision sensors
are installed. We recommend
that the system be serviced
by an authorized Kia dealer.
• Your vehicle
designed to absorb impact
and deploy the air bag(s) in
certain collisions. Installing
bumper guards or replacing a
bumper with
parts may adversely affect
on or
your vehicles collision and air
bag deployment performance.
Air bag inflation conditions
Front air bags
Front air bags are designed to inflate
in a frontal collision depending on the
severity of impact of the front collision.
Side and curtain air bags (if equipped)
Side and curtain air bags are
designed to inflate when an impact is
detected by side collision sensors
has been depending on the severity of impact
resulting from a side impact collision.
Although the front air bags (driver's
and front passenger's air bags) are
designed to inflate only in frontal colli-
non-genuine
sions, they also may inflate in other
types of collisions if the front impact
sensors detect a sufficient impact. Side
air bags (side and/or curtain air bags)
are designed to inflate only in side
impact collisions, but they may inflate
in other collisions if the side impact
sensors detect a sufficient impact.