Safety Belts - Volkswagen Golf 2021 Owner's Manual

keeping your knee(s) slightly bent. The distance to
the instrument panel in the knee area must be at
least 4 inches (10 cm) →
— Adjust the seat height so that the top point of the
steering wheel can be reached.
— Always keep both feet in the footwell so that you
are in control of the vehicle at all times.
Passenger - front seat adjustment:
— Push the passenger seat as far back as possible in
order to ensure optimum protection if the airbag
is deployed.

Safety belts

Introduction
Properly worn safety belts are the single most effec-
tive means of reducing the risk of serious injury and
death in a collision or other accident.
Damage to safety belts reduces their overall effec-
tiveness and increases the risk of serious personal
injury and death whenever the vehicle is being used.
Check the condition of all safety belts and buckles
regularly.
If a safety belt shows damage to webbing, hard-
ware, retractors, or buckles, have the safety belt re-
placed by an authorized Volkswagen dealer or an au-
thorized Volkswagen Service Facility →
WARNING
Not wearing a safety belt or wearing an improperly
positioned safety belt increases the risk of severe
personal injury or death. Safety belts offer opti-
mum protection only when they are used properly.
·
Properly worn safety belts are the single most
effective means of reducing the risk of serious
injury and death in a collision or other accident.
For this reason, always wear your safety belt
properly and make sure all passengers wear
their safety belts properly as well whenever the
vehicle is moving.
·
The driver must always make sure that every
person in the vehicle is properly seated on
a seat of his or her own, properly fastens the
safety belts belonging to that seat before the
vehicle starts to move, and keeps the belts
properly fastened while riding in the vehicle.
This applies even when just driving around
town. Therefore, always wear your safety belts
and make sure that everybody in your vehicle is
properly restrained.
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Always secure children in the vehicle with a re-
straint system appropriate for their age, weight
and height → page 64, Child safety and child
restraints.
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Always fasten safety belts correctly before driv-
ing off and make sure that all passengers are
properly restrained.
·
Never attach the safety belt to the buckle of an-
other seat. Attaching the safety belt to the
wrong buckle will reduce safety belt effective-
ness and can cause serious personal injury.
·
Never let any objects or liquids get into the
safety belt latch and prevent it from working
properly.
·
Never remove a safety belt while the vehicle is
moving. Doing so will increase your risk of being
injured or killed.
·
Never strap more than one person, including
small children, into any single safety belt.
·
Never let children or babies ride sitting on your
lap, and never place a safety belt over a child
sitting on your lap.
·
Never wear belts over rigid or breakable objects
in or on your clothing, such as eyeglasses, pens,
keys, etc., as these may cause injury.
·
Several layers of heavy clothing (such as a coat
worn over a sports jacket) may interfere with
proper positioning of the safety belt and reduce
the overall effectiveness of the system.
·
Never use comfort clips or devices that create
slack in the shoulder belt. However, special clips
may be required for the correct use of some
child restraint systems.
·
Safety belts offer optimum protection only
when the seat backrest is upright and belts are
correctly positioned on the body.
WARNING
Damage to safety belts reduces their overall effec-
tiveness and increases the risk of serious personal
injury and death whenever the vehicle is being
used.
·
Never let safety belts become damaged by be-
ing caught in the door or seat hardware.
·
Torn or frayed safety belts can tear, and dam-
aged safety belt hardware can break in an acci-
dent.
·
Inspect belts regularly for damage. If webbing,
hardware, buckles, or retractors are damaged,
have the belts replaced immediately with the
correct replacement belts approved by Volkswa-
gen for your vehicle, model, and model year.