Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Operating Instructions Manual page 36

34 Occupant safety
& WARNING Risk of injury or death due to
damaged or modified seat belts
Seat belts cannot provide protection in the
following situations:
The seat belt is damaged, has been modi‐
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fied, is extremely dirty, bleached or dyed
The seat belt buckle is damaged or
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extremely dirty
Modifications have been made to the
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Emergency Tensioning Device, seat belt
anchorage or seat belt retractor
Seat belts may sustain non-visible damage in
an accident, e.g. due to glass splinters.
Modified or damaged seat belts could tear or
fail in the event of an accident, for example.
Modified Emergency Tensioning Devices may
be deployed unintentionally or not function as
intended.
Never modify the seat belts, Emergency
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Tensioning Devices, seat belt ancho‐
rages or seat belt retractors.
Make sure that the seat belts are not
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damaged, are not worn and are clean.
Always have the seat belts checked
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immediately after an accident at a quali‐
fied specialist workshop.
Only use seat belts which have been approved for
your vehicle by the sales organization named on
the inside front cover.
& WARNING Risk of injury or death from
deployed pyrotechnic Emergency Ten‐
sioning Devices
Pyrotechnic Emergency Tensioning Devices
that have been deployed are no longer opera‐
tional and are unable to perform their inten‐
ded protective function.
Therefore, have deployed pyrotechnic
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Emergency Tensioning Devices immedi‐
ately replaced at a qualified specialist
workshop.
For your safety and that of your passengers, it is
recommended that you have the vehicle towed to
a qualified specialist workshop after an accident.
* NOTE Damage caused by trapping the
seat belt
If an unused seat belt is not fully retracted, it
may become trapped in the door or in the
seat mechanism.
Always ensure that an unused seat belt
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is fully retracted.
Fastening and adjusting seat belts
If the seat belt is pulled quickly or sharply, the
seat belt retractor locks. The seat belt strap can‐
not be pulled out any further.
Always engage seat belt tongue
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seat belt into seat belt buckle
responding seat.
Press and hold the seat belt outlet release
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and slide seat belt outlet
position.
Let go of the seat belt outlet release and
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ensure that seat belt outlet
position.
Vehicles with single co-driver seat:
* NOTE Deployment of the Emergency Ten‐
sioning Device when the front-passenger
seat is unoccupied
If the seat belt tongue is engaged in the seat
belt buckle of the unoccupied front-passenger
seat, the Emergency Tensioning Device may
also deploy in the event of an accident along
with other systems.
Only one person should use each seat
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belt at any one time.
2 of the
1 of the cor‐
3 into the desired
3 locks into