Kia Soul 2020 Owner's Manual page 153

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.
Have the system serviced by a
professional workshop. Kia
recommends to
authorised Kia dealer/service
partner.
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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 B pillar where side collision
sensors are installed. In this
case, have the system serv-
iced by a professional work-
shop. Kia recommends to
visit an authorised Kia deal-
er/service partner.
• Your vehicle
designed to absorb impact
and deploy the air bag(s) in
certain collisions.
bumper guards or replacing a
on or
bumper
parts may adversely affect
your vehicles collision and air
bag deployment performance.
visit an
Air bag inflation conditions
has been
Front air bags
Front air bags are designed to inflate
Installing
in a frontal collision depending on
the intensity, speed or angles of
with non-genuine
impact of the front collision.
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