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Child S a fet y
It is a very dangerous place for an infant or a
larger child in a rearward-facing seat.
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WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the
wrong chi ld safety seat or improperly in-
stalling a child restraint increases the risk
of serious personal injury and death in a
crash .
- Never install rear-facing ch ild safety
seats or infant carriers on the front pas-
senger seat - even with an Advanced Air-
bag System. A child will be seriously in-
jured and can be killed when the inflat-
ing airbag hits the child safety seat or in-
fant ca rrier with great force and smashes
the chi ld safety seat and chi ld aga inst
the backrest, center armrest, door or
roof
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page 151, Child restraints on the
front seat - some important things to
know.
- Always install rear-facing child safety
seats or infant carriers on the rear seat.
- Never install a rear-facing child restraint
in the forward-facing direction. Such re-
straints are des igned for the spec ial
needs of infants and very small children
and cannot protect them properly if the
seat is forward-fac ing.
- If
you must install a rearward facing
child safety seat on the front passenger
seat because of exceptional circumstan-
ces and the
PASSENG ER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on and stay on, im-
mediately install the rear -facing child
safety seat in a rear seating position and
have the airbag system inspected by your
Audi dealer.
- Never place or use any electrical device
(such as a laptop, CD player, electron ic
games dev ice, 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 light-
er soc ket.
- If a seat heater has been retrofitted or
otherwis e added to the front passenger
seat, never install any chi ld restraint sys-
tem on th is 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.
- Never place objects on the seat (such as
a laptop, CD player, electronic games de-
vice, power inverter or seat heater for
child seats). These may influence the
electrical capacitance measured by the
capacitive passenger detection system
a nd can also f ly around in an accident
and cause serious persona l injury.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS
whenever using a child restrained in ave-
hicle is being used
¢ page 140, Safety
belts,
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page 149, Airbag system
and
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page 175, Important things to know .
Convertible child safety seats
Properly used convertible child safety seats
can help protect toddlers and children over
age one who weigh between 20 and 40 lbs. (9
and 18 kg) in a crash.
Fig. 1 73
Schemat ic overview: instal lat ion of the at-
tac hmen ts applicab le to a LA TCH seat
Fig. 17 4
Schemat ic overview: installa tion of t he sea t
using the vehicle's safety belt syste m
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