Volkswagen Golf 2021 Owner's Manual page 57

The safety belts for the front seating positions have
safety belt pretensioners which help take up slack in
the belts. The airbag control unit also activates the
belt pretensioners → page 43, Safety belt retractor,
pretensioner, load limiter.
The safety belts for the front and rear outboard
seating positions also have belt load limiters to re-
duce the forces acting on a body during an accident.
The areas marked in red (dotted lines) →
and → fig. 35 indicate the airbag deployment
zone. Never place or attach accessories or other ob-
jects (such as cup holders, telephone brackets, note
pads, navigation systems, large, heavy or bulky ob-
jects) on the doors, on the windshield, over or near
the area marked in red (dotted lines).
Front airbags will not deploy:
— if the ignition is switched off when a crash occurs,
— in side collisions,
— in rear-end collisions,
— in rollovers,
— when the crash deceleration measured by the air-
bag system is less than the minimum threshold
needed for airbag deployment as registered by
the electronic control unit.
The front passenger front airbag will also not de-
ploy:
— when the front passenger seat is not occupied,
— when the electrical capacitance measured by the
capacitive passenger detection system for the
front passenger seat indicates that the passenger
side front airbag must be switched off by the
electronic control unit (the PASSENGER AIR BAG
light comes on and stays on → page 47, PAS-
SENGER AIR BAG
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.
·
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.
·
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.
·
Always install rearward-facing child restraints
on the rear seat.
·
Although the Advanced Airbag System in your
vehicle is designed to turn off the front airbag
fig. 34
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light).
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.
·
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
Volkswagen dealer or an authorized Volkswagen
Service Facility.
DANGER
A front seat passenger, especially an infant or
small child, will be seriously injured and can even
be killed if too close to the airbag when it deploys
– even an Advanced Airbag.
·
All vehicle occupants and especially children
must be restrained properly whenever riding in
a vehicle. An unrestrained or improperly re-
strained child could be injured by striking the in-
terior or by being ejected from the vehicle dur-
ing a sudden maneuver or impact. An unre-
strained or improperly restrained child is also at
greater risk of injury or death through contact
with an inflating airbag.
·
Accident statistics show that children are safer
on the rear seat than on the front seat.
·
A suitable child restraint properly installed and
used at one of the rear seating positions pro-
vides the highest degree of protection for in-
fants and small children in most accident situa-
tions.
·
An Advanced Airbag System can deploy with the
"low risk" option for 3 to 6 year-old children
when a child who is heavier than the combined
capacitance of a typical 1 year-old child plus
child restraint is secured on the passenger seat
in a forward-facing or rear-facing child restraint
that was used to certify your vehicle, and when
the other conditions for airbag deployment are
met.
·
For their own safety, all children, especially
those 12 years and younger, must always sit on
the back seat, properly restrained for their age
and size.
·
When installing a child restraint, always careful-
ly follow the manufacturer's instructions.
·
If the airbag indicator light goes on while driv-
ing, have the system inspected immediately by
your authorized Volkswagen dealer or author-
light does not
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