Volkswagen Golf 2021 Owner's Manual page 55

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Although the Advanced Airbag System has been
designed to switch off when an infant or small
child is on the front passenger seat in a child re-
straint that was used during the certification
process for the Advanced Airbag System, no one
can guarantee with absolute certainty that the
airbag will never deploy under these particular
conditions in all conceivable situations for the
duration of your vehicle's use.
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The Advanced Airbag System can deploy in ac-
cordance with the "low risk" option for 3 to
6 year-old children under the U.S. Federal
Standard if a child with electrical capacitance
greater than the combined capacitance of a typ-
ical 1 year-old infant restrained in one of the
forward facing or rearward-facing child re-
straints with which your vehicle was certified is
on the front passenger seat and the other con-
ditions for airbag deployment are met.
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For their own safety, all children, especially
12 years and younger, must always ride on the
back seat properly restrained for their age and
size.
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When installing a child restraint, always careful-
ly follow the manufacturer's instructions.
DANGER
Children on the front seat of any vehicle, even one
with Advanced Airbags, can be seriously injured or
even killed when an airbag inflates.
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A child in a rearward-facing child restraint in-
stalled on the front passenger seat will be seri-
ously injured and can be killed if the front airbag
inflates.
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The inflating airbag will hit the child restraint or
infant carrier with great force and will smash
the child restraint and the child against the seat
backrest, center armrest, door, or roof.
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Always install rearward-facing child restraints
on the rear seat.
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Although the Advanced Airbag System in your
vehicle is designed to turn off the front airbag
when a rearward-facing child restraint has been
installed on the front passenger seat, nobody
can absolutely guarantee that deployment is
impossible in all conceivable situations that may
happen during the useful life of your vehicle.
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If you have, in exceptional circumstances, nev-
ertheless decided to install a rearward-facing
child restraint on the front passenger seat and
the PASSENGER AIR BAG
come on and stay on whenever the ignition is
on, immediately install the rearward-facing seat
in a rear seating position and have the airbag
system inspected immediately by an authorized
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WARNING
Forward-facing child restraints installed on the
front passenger seat may interfere with the de-
ployment of the airbag and cause serious personal
injury to the child.
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If exceptional circumstances require the use of
a forward-facing child restraint on the front
passenger seat, the following special precau-
tions must be taken for the safety and well-be-
ing of the child:
— Always make sure that the forward-facing
child restraint has been designed and certi-
fied for use on a front passenger seat with
a front airbag and a side airbag.
— Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instructions provided for the child restraint or
infant carrier.
— Never install a child restraint without a prop-
erly attached top tether strap if the child re-
straint manufacturer's instructions require
the top tether strap for proper installation, or
if required by law. For example, the use of
a top tether strap for forward-facing child re-
straints is required by law in Canada.
— Never put the forward-facing child restraint
up against or very near the instrument panel.
— Always set the safety belt upper anchorage
to the adjustment position that permits
proper installation in accordance with the
child restraint manufacturer's instructions.
— Always move the front passenger seat to the
highest position in the up and down adjust-
ment range and move it back to the rearmost
position in the seat's fore and aft adjustment
range, as far away from the airbag as possi-
ble, before installing the forward-facing child
restraint.
— Always make sure that the safety belt upper
anchorage is behind the child restraint and
not next to or in front of the child restraint so
that the safety belt will be properly posi-
tioned.
— Always make sure that nothing is in the way
that prevents the front passenger seat from
being moved all the way back to the rear-
most position in its fore and aft adjustment
range.
— Always make sure that the backrest is in the
upright position.
— Never place additional items on the seat that
can influence the electrical capacitance
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