Kia Optima Hybrid 2017 Owner's Manual page 122

WARNING
• 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 re‐
sult 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,
causing severe injury or death.
Therefore, do not try to perform
maintenance on or around the air
bag sensors. We recommend that
the system be serviced by an au‐
thorized Kia dealer.
• Problems may arise if the sensor
installation angles are changed due
to the deformation of the front
bumper, body or front door and C
pillars where side collision sensors
are installed. We recommend that
the system be serviced by an au‐
thorized Kia dealer.
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• Your vehicle has been designed to
absorb impact and deploy the air
bag(s) in certain collisions. Instal‐
ling bumper guards or replacing a
bumper with non-genuine parts
may adversely affect your vehi‐
cle's collision and air bag deploy‐
ment performance.
WARNING
n if equipped with rollover sen‐
sor
If your vehicle is equipped with side
and curtain air bags, set the Engine
Start/Stop button in the OFF posi‐
tion when the vehicle is being towed.
The side and curtain air bags may
deploy when the engine start/stop
button is in the ON position, and the
rollover sensor detects the situation
as a rollover.
Air bag inflation conditions
Front air bags
OJF035050
Front air bags are designed to inflate in
a frontal collision depending on the in‐
tensity, speed or angles of impact of
the front collision.
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