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The front Advanced Airbag System supp lements
the safety belts to provide additiona l protection
for the driver's and front passenger's heads and
upper bodies in frontal crashes. The a irbags in-
flate only in frontal impacts when the vehicle de-
celeration is high enough .
The front Advanced Airbag System for the front
seat occupants is not a substitute for your safety
be lts. Rather, it is pa rt of the overall occupant re-
straint system in your vehicle. Always remember
that the airbag system can only help to protect
you, if you are sitt ing upright, wearing your safe-
ty belt and weari ng it properly. This is why you
and your passengers m ust always be properly re-
strained, not ju st because the law req uires you t o
be .
The Advanced Airbag System in your veh icle has
been certified to meet the "low risk" requi re-
men t s fo r 3 and 6 yea r-old ch ildren on the pas-
senger side and very small ad ults on the driver
side . The low risk deployment criteria are intend-
ed to he lp reduce the risk of injury through inter-
action with the front airbag that can occur, for
examp le, by being too close to the steering wheel
and instrument pane l when the airbag inf lates.
In addition, the system has been certif ied to
comp ly w ith the "suppression" requ irements of
the Safety Standard, to turn off the front airbag
for infants 12 months old and younger who are
restra ined o n the front passenger seat in child re-
straints that are listed in the Standard
~
page 124, Child restraints and Advan ced Air-
bags.
"Suppression" requires the front airbag on the
passenger side to be turned off if:
- a ch ild up to about one year of age is restrained
on the front passenger seat in one of the rear-
facing or forward-fac ing infant rest raints listed
in Federa l Moto r Vehicle Safety Standard 208
with wh ich t he Advanced Airbag System in your
vehicle was cer t ified. For a list ing of t he child
restr aints that were used to cert ify you r vehi-
cle's compliance with t he US Safety Standard
~ page 124,
Airbag
sys t e m
- weight less than a thresho ld level stored in the
cont rol unit is detected on the front passenger
seat.
When a person is detecte d on the front passen-
ger seat, weigh ing more than the tota l we ight of
a chi ld that is about 1 year old restrained in one
of the rear -facing or forwa rd-fac ing infant re -
stra ints (listed in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard 208 with wh ich the Advanced Airbag
System in your veh icle was certified), the front
airbag on the passenge r s ide may or may not de-
ploy.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
when the elect ro nic cont rol unit detects a total
we ight on the fro nt passenger sea t that requires
the front airbag to be tu rned off. If the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on, the
fron t air bag on t he passenger side has not bee n
tu rned off by t he control unit and can dep loy if
t he con t rol unit senses an impact that meets t he
conditions stored in its memo ry.
If t he tot a l weight on the fron t passenge r seat is
more than that of a typical 1 year-o ld , but less
t han the weight of a small adult, the front airbag
on the passenge r side may deploy (the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG O FF
light does not come on).
For example , the airbag ma y deploy
if:
- a small ch ild that is heav ie r than a typical 1
yea r-old ch ild is on the front passenge r seat (re-
ga rdless of whether the chi ld is in one of the
child safety seats liste d ~
page 124),
- a child who has outgrown ch ild res t raint s is on
t he fron t passenger seat.
If th e front passenger a irbag is turned off, the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light in the center of
t he instr ume nt pane l w ill come on and st ay on.
The front airbag o n the passenge r s ide may
not
deploy (t he
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not illumi nate and st ay lit) if:
- a small adult or teenager is on the front pas-
senger seat
- a passenger who is not s itting upright with
their back aga inst a non-reclined backrest with
their feet on the vehicle floor in front of th e
seat is on t he front passenger sea t .
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