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Airb a g syste m
A
WARNING
A child in a rearward-facing chi ld seat instal-
led on the front passenger seat will be ser i-
ously injured and can be killed if the front air-
bag inflates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System.
- Although the Advanced Airbag System in
you r vehicle is designed to tu rn off the front
airbag when a rea rward-facing child re-
straint has been insta lled on the fron t pas-
senger seat, nobody can absolutely g uaran -
tee that deployment is impossible in a ll con-
ceivable situations that may happen during
the useful life of your vehicle.
- The inflating airbag will hit the child seat or
infant carrier with great force and will
smash the ch ild seat and child against the
backrest, center armrest, door, or roof.
- Always install rearward-facing ch ild re-
straints on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearward fac ing ch ild
seat on the front passenger seat because of
exceptional circumstances and the PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on
and stay on, immediately insta ll the rear-
facing child seat in a rea r seating pos ition
and have the airbag system inspected by
your Audi dealer.
A
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 t he forward-facing se at
has been designed and ce rtified by its man -
ufacturer for use on a f ront seat with a pas-
senger front and side 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 fa r away from the air-
bag as possib le, before insta lling the for-
ward-facing child restra int. The backrest
must be adjusted to an upright posit ion.
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- Always make sure that there is noth ing on
the front passenge r seat that will cause the
capacitive passenger detection system in
the seat to signal to the Airbag System that
the seat is occup ied by a person when it is
not, or to s ignal that it is occupied by some-
one who is heavier than the person act ually
sitti ng o n the sea t . The prese nce of addi-
tional obje cts could cause the passenger
front airbag t o be t urned on when it should
be off , or could cause the airbag to work in a
way that is d ifferent from the way it wou ld
have wo rked without the object on the seat.
- Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignit ion is switched on.
Advanced Airbag System components
The front passenger seat in your veh icle has a lot
of ve ry important parts of the Advanced Airbag
System in it . These parts include t he capacitive
passenger detection system, wir ing, brackets,
and more. The control unit monitors the system
o n the front passenge r seat when t he ignit ion is
swit ched on and turns the airbag indica t or ligh t
o n when a malfunction in the one of the system
components is detected
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147 . Because
the front passenger seat contains important
parts of the Advanced Airbag System, you must
take care to prevent it from being damaged.
Damage to the seat may prevent the Advanced
Airbag System for the front passenger seat from
do ing its job in a crash.
The front Advanced Airbag System consists
of the following:
- Crash sensors in the front of the veh icle that
measu re vehicle acce le ration/dece le ration to
prov ide informa ti on to the Advanced Airbag
System abo ut t he sever ity of the cras h.
- An elect roni c contro l unit, with integ rated
cras h sensors for front an d side impacts. The
cont rol u nit "de cides" whether t o fire the fron t
airbags based on the information received from
the crash sensors. The cont rol unit also "de -
cides" whether the safety belt pretensioners
should be activated.
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