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exceptional circumstances and the PAS SEN·
GER AIR BAG OFF light does not come on
and stay on, immediately insta ll the rear-
ward-facing child safety seat in a rear seat-
ing posit ion and have the airbag system in-
spected immediately by your authorized
Audi dealer.
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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 airbag .
- Always follow the manufac tu rer 's instruc-
tions provided with the chi ld safety seat or
carrier.
- 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 before installing the child
restra int. The backrest must be adjusted to
an upr ight position.
-Always make sure that the PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF light comes on and stays on all the
t ime whenever the ignition is switched on.
Always replace ch ild restraints that were in-
stalled in a vehicle dur ing a crash. Damage to
a child restraint that is not visib le could cause
it to fail in another collision situation.
Advanced front airbag system and children
Your veh icle is equipped with a front "Advanced
Airbag System" in compliance w ith United States
Federa l Moto r Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
208, as well as Canada Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard (CMVSS) 208 as applicable at the time
your vehicle was manufactured .
The Advanced Airbag system in your vehicle has
been ce rtified to meet t he "low-risk" requ ire-
ments for 3- and 6-yea r old children on the pas -
senger side and sma ll adults on the driver side .
Ch ild safety
The low risk deployment criteria a re intended to
reduce the risk of injury through interaction with
the a irbag that can occur, for example, by be ing
too close to the steering wheel and instrument
panel when the airbag inflates. In addition, the
system has been certified to comply with the
"suppression" requirements
of the Safety Stand·
ard, to turn off the front airbag for infants up to
12 months who are restrained on the front pas-
senger seat in child rest raints that are listed in
the Standard.
Even though your veh icle is equipped with an Ad·
vanced Airbag system, all ch ild ren, especially
those 12 yea rs and you nger, sho uld a lways ride
in the back seat proper ly restrained for their age
and size . The airbag on the passenger side makes
the front seat a potentially dangerous place for a
child to ride. The front seat is not the safest place
for a ch ild in a forward-fac ing ch ild safety seat. It
can be a very dangerous place for an infant or a
larger ch ild in a rearward-facing seat .
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Advanced Airbags and the weight-sensing
mat in the front seat
The Advanced Airbag System in you r vehicle de -
tects the presence of an infant or chi ld in a chi ld
restraint on the front passenger seat using the
weight -sensing mat in the seat cushion and the
sensor below the safety belt latch on the front
passenger seat that measures the tens ion on the
safety belt.
The weight-sensing
mat measures total weight
of the child and the chi ld safety seat and a child
blanket on the front passenger seat . The weight
on the front passenger seat is related to the de-
sign of the child restra int and its "footprint", the
size and shape of the bottom of the ch ild re-
straint as it sits on the seat. The weight of a ch ild
restra int and its "footprint" vary for different
kinds of child restra ints and for the different
models of the same kind of chi ld rest raint of -
fered by chi ld restraint manufacturers.
The we igh t ranges for the indiv id ual types,
makes and mode ls of ch ild restraints that the
NHTSA has specified in the Safety Standard to-
gether with the weight ranges of typical infants
.,.
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