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Toddlers and children who are older than one
year up to about 4 years o ld and weigh more than
20 lbs. (9 kg) up to 40 lbs. (18 kg) must always
be properly restrained in a child safety seat certi-
fied for their size and weight¢
fig. 143
and
¢fig. 144 .
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 safety seat .
It
is a
very dangerous place for an infa nt or a larger
child in a rearward-facing
seat.
A
WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the wrong
child safety seat or improperly installing a
child restraint increases the risk of serious
personal injury and death in a collision or oth -
er emergency situation.
- Children on the front seat of any car, even
with Advanced Airbags, can be seriously in-
jured or even killed when an airbag inf lates.
A ch ild 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 Ad-
vanced Airbag System.
- The inflating a irbag w ill hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the ch ild safety seat and chi ld
against the bac krest, center armrest, door
or roof.
- Always install rearward-fac ing ch ild 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 exceptiona l circumstances
and the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on and stay on, immed iate ly install
the rearward-facing child safety seat in a
rear seating position and have the airbag
system inspected by your author ized Audi
dealer.
- The rear side of the child safety seat should
be pos it ioned as close as poss ible to the
backrest on the vehicle seat. Adjust or re-
move the rear seat head restraint if it is d if-
Ch ild safety
ficult to insta ll the chi ld seat with the head
restraint in place¢
page 56.
Install the
head restraint again immed iate ly once the
child seat is removed. Driving without head
restraints or with head restra ints that are
not properly adjusted increases the ris k of
serious or fatal neck inju ry dramatically.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
eve r us ing a child restrained in a vehicle is
be ing used
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page 120, Safety belts,
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page 128, Airbag system
a nd
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page 150, Important information .
A
WARNING
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If exceptional circumstances requ ire the use
of a forward-facing chi ld restraint on the
front passenger's seat, the child's safety and
well-being requ ire that the following special
precautions be taken:
- Make sure the forward-facing seat has been
des igned and certified by its manufacturer
for use on a front seat with a passenger
front and side airbag.
-Always follow the manufacturer's instruc-
tions provided with the child safety seat or
infant carrier.
- Always move the front passenger seat into
the rearmost pos ition of the passenger
seat's fore and aft adjustment
range , and as
far away from the airbag as possib le befo re
installing the ch ild rest raint.
- Always make sure that nothing prevents the
front passenger's seat from being moved to
the rea rmost pos ition in its fore and aft ad-
justment range.
- Always make sure the backrest is in an up-
right position.
- Make sure that t he PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays on all the time
wheneve r the ignit ion is swit ched on.
- If the light does not stay on, perfo rm the
checks
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page 138, Monitoring the Ad-
vanced Airbag System.
- Take the child restra int off the front passen-
ge r seat and install it prope rly at one of the
rear seat positions if the PASSENGER AIR
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