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Child Safety
- Always install rear-facing child safety
seats on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearward facing
child safety seat on the front passenger
seat in exceptional circumstances and
the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not come on and stay on, immediately
install the rear-facing child safety seat in
a rear seating position and have the air-
bag system inspected immediately by
your Audi dealer.
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WARNING
- Forward-facing child seats installed on
the front passenger seat may interfere
with the deployment of the airbag and
cause serious personal injury to the
child.
- If exceptional circumstances require the
use of a forward-facing child restraint on
the front passenger 's seat, the child's
safety and well-being require the follow-
ing special precautions to be taken:
- Always make sure that the forward-fac-
ing seat has been designed and certi-
fied by its manufacturer for use on a
front passenger seat with a front and
side airbag.
- Always carefully follow the manufac-
turer's instructions provided with the
child seat or infant carrier.
- Never install a child restraint without a
properly attached top tether strap if
the child restraint manufacturer's
in-
structions require the top tether strap
to be used.
- Never put the forward-facing child re-
straint up against or very near the in-
strument panel.
- Always set the safety belt upper an-
chorage to the adjustment position
that permits proper installation in ac-
cordance with the child restraint manu-
facturer's instructions.
-Always move the passenger seat into
its rearmost position in the seat's fore
and aft adjustment range, as far away
.
from the airbag as possible before in-
stalling the child restraint. The back-
rest must be adjusted to an upright po-
sition .
- Always make sure that nothing pre-
vents the front passenger's seat from
being moved to the rearmost position
in its fore and aft adjustment range.
- Never place objects on the seat (such
as a laptop, CD player, electronic
games device, power inverter or seat
heater for child seats) . These may in-
fluence the electrical capacitance
measured by the capacitive passenger
detection system and can also fly
around in an accident and cause serious
personal injury.
- Never place or use any electrical device
(such as a laptop, CD player, electronic
games device, power inverter or seat
heater for child seats) on the front pas-
senger seat if the device is connected
to the 12 -volt socket or the cigarette
lighter socket.
- If a seat heater has been retrofitted or
otherwise added to the front passen-
ger seat, never install any child re-
straint system on this seat.
- Make sure that there are no wet objects
(such as a wet towel) and no water or
other liquids on the front passenger
seat cushion .
- Always make sure that the
PASSENGER
AIR BAG OFF
light comes on and stays
on all the time whenever the ignition is
switched on.
- If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light
does not come on and stay on, immedi-
ately install the forward-facing child
seat in a rear seating position and have
the airbag system inspected by your
authori zed Audi dealer.
- Always buckle the child seat firmly in
place even if a child is not sitting in it.
A loose child seat can fly around during
a sudden stop or in a collision.
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