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Child safety
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
child in a forward-facing child seat. It is a very
dangerous place for an infant or a larger child in
a rearward-fac ing seat.
A
WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the wrong
child safety seat or improperly installing a
child restra int increases the risk of serious
personal injury and death in a crash.
- Never install rearward-fac ing ch ild safety
seats or infant carriers on the front passen-
ger seat - even with an Advanced Airbag Sys-
tem. A child will be seriously injured and can
be killed when the inflating airbag hits the
child safety seat or infant carrier with great
force and smashes the child safety seat and
child against the backrest, center armrest,
door or roof
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page 129, Child restraints on
the front seat - some important things to
know.
-Always install rearward-fac ing ch ild safety
seats or infant carriers on the rear seat.
- Never install a rearward-facing child re-
straint in the forward-facing direction. Such
restra ints are des igned for the special needs
of infants and very small ch ild ren and can-
not protect them properly if the seat is for-
ward- facing.
- If you mus t install a rearward fac ing ch ild
safe ty seat on the front passenger seat be-
cause of exceptiona l circumstances and the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on and stay on, immediate ly install
the rearward-facing child safety seat in a
rear seat ing position and have the airbag
system inspected by your author ized Audi
dealer.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child restrained in a veh icle is
being used c:>
page 120, Safety belts,
c:>
page 128, Airbag system
and
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page 150, Important information.
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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. 143
Schemat ic overview : installat ion of the attach -
ments applicable to a LA TCH seat
Fig. 144
Schemat ic overview: installat ion of the seat using
the vehicle's safety belt system
.. When using the vehicle safety belt to install a
child safety seat, you must first activate the
convertib le locking retractor on the safety belt
to prevent the child safety seat from moving
c:>
page 159
or install the seat using the LATCH
attachments .
.. Push t he chi ld safety seat down wit h your full
we igh t to get the safe ty belt really t ight so that
the seat cannot move forward or sideways
more than one inch (2 .5 cm)
c:>page 159 .
.. If the child safety seat is equipped with a tether
strap, attach it to the tether anchors
c:>page 165.
.. Secure unused safety belts on the rear seat
c:>page 155 .
A toddler or child is usually too large for an in-
fant restraint if it is more than one year old and
weighs more than 20 lbs. (9 kg).
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