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- The inflating airbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the chi ld safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof .
- Always install rear-facing child safety seats
on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearward fac ing ch ild
safety seat on the front passenger seat be-
cause of exceptional circumstances and the
PASSEN GER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on and stay on, immed iate ly install
the rear-fac ing ch ild safety seat in a rear
seating pos it ion and have the airbag system
inspected by your authorized Audi dea le r.
- Forward-fac ing ch ild safety seats installed
on the front passenger's seat may interfere
with the deployment of the airbag and
cause serious personal injury to the child.
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WARNING
If, in except ional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward-facing chi ld restraint on the
front passenger 's seat:
- Always make sure the forward-fac ing seat
has been designed and certified by its man-
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and s ide a irbag.
- Never put the forward-facing child restraint
up against or very near the instrument pan-
el.
- Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment range, as far away from the air-
bag as possib le befo re installing the for-
wa rd-facing child restra int. The bac krest
must be adjusted to an up right posit ion.
- Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignition is switched on.
A
WARNING
To red uce the risk of serious injury, make sure
t hat the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light will
be displayed whenever a child restraint is in-
stalled on the front passenger seat and the
ign ition is switched on .
Airb a g sys tem
- If the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does
not stay on, perform the checks described
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page 138, Monitoring the Advanced Air-
bag System .
- Take the child restra int off the front passen-
ger seat and install it properly at one of the
rear seat positions if the PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF light does not stay on.
- Have the airbag system inspected by your
author ized Audi dealer immed iately .
- Always carefully follow instructions from
child restraint manufacture rs when instal -
ling child restra ints .
A
WARNING
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If, in exceptional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward or rearward-facing child re-
stra int on t he fron t passenger 's seat:
- Imp roper installat ion of child res t raints can
reduce the ir effectiveness or even prevent
them from providing any pro t ect ion.
- An imprope rly installed child restra int can
interfere wit h the airbag as it deploys and
serio us ly injure or even kill the chi ld - eve n
with an Advanced Airbag Syst em.
- Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instr uctions provided wit h the child safety
seat or ca rrier .
- Never place add itiona l it ems on the se at
that can increase the total weight registered
by the weight -sensing mat and can cause in-
jury in a crash .
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