Audi A7 Sportback 2014 Owner's Manual page 189

and child against the backrest, center
armrest, door or roof.
- Always install rear-facing child safety
seats or infant carriers on the rear seat.
- Forward-facing child safety seats or in-
fant carriers installed on the front pas-
senger's seat may interfere with the de-
ployment of the airbag and cause serious
injury to the child.
- It is safer to install a forward-facing
child safety seat on the rear seat .
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS
whenever using a child restrained in ave-
hicle is being used¢ page 175. Special
precautions apply when installing a child
safety seat on the front passenger seat
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page 151, Child restraints on the front
seat - some important things to know.
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WARNING
Always take special precautions if you
must install a forward or rearward-facing
child restraint on the front passenger's
seat in exceptional situations:
- Whenever a forward or rearward-facing
child restraint is installed on the front
passenger seat, the PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF light must come on and stay on
whenever the ignition is switched on.
- If the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light
does not come on and stay on, perform
the checks described ¢ page 161, Moni-
toring the Advanced Airbag System.
- Take the child restraint off the front pas-
senger seat and install it properly at one
of the rear seat positions if the PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF light does not stay on
whenever the ignition is switched on.
- Improper installation of child restraints
can reduce their effectiveness or even
prevent them from providing any protec-
tion.
- An improperly installed child restraint
can interfere with the airbag as it de-
ploys and seriously injure or even kill the
child.
Child Safety 187
- Always carefully follow the manufactur-
er's instructions provided with the child
safety seat or carrier.
- After checking to make sure that the
child restraint is properly installed, make
certain that the child restraint is correct-
ly recognized by the capacitive passenger
detection system in the front passenger
seat and that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light signals the correct front pas-
senger frontal airbag status.
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WARNING
Forward-facing child restraints:
- Always make sure the forward-facing
seat has been designed and certified by
its manufacturer for use on a front seat
with a passenger front and side airbag.
- Never put the forward-facing child re-
straint up, against or very near the in-
strument panel.
- 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 installing
the forward-facing child restraint. The
backrest must be adjusted to an upright
position .
- Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays on all the
time whenever the ignition is switched
on .
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WARNING
Rearward-facing child restraints:
- A child in a rearward -facing child safety
seat installed on the front passenger
seat will be seriously injured and can be
killed if the front airbag inflates - even
with an Advanced Airbag System .
- The inflating airbag will hit the child
safety seat or infant carrier with great
force and will smash the child safety seat
and child against the backrest, center
armrest, door or roof.
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