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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 inflates.
A child 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 will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the ch ild safety seat and child
against the backrest, center arm rest, door
or roof.
- Always install rear-facing child 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 rear-fac ing ch ild safety seat in a rear
seating pos it ion and have the airbag system
inspected by your 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.
- For adjustable head restraints : adjust or re-
move the rear seat head restraint if it is d if-
ficult to install the child seat with the head
restra int in place ¢
page 56.
Install the
head restraint again immediately once the
child seat is removed. Driving without head
restraints or with head restraints that are
not proper ly adjusted increases the risk of
serious or fatal neck injury dramatically.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child restrained in a vehicle is
being used ¢
page 12
7,
Safety belts,
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page 135, Airbag system
and
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page 159, Important information.
A
WARNING
If exceptional circumstances require the use
of a forward-facing child restra int on the
Ch ild safety
front passenger's seat, the child's safety and
well-being requ ire that the following special
precautions be taken:
- Make sure the forward-fac ing 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 carrie r.
- Always move the front passenger seat into
the rearmost pos ition of the passenger
seat's fore and aft adjustment range, and as
fa r 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.
- Never place or use any electr ica l device
(such as a lap t op, CD player, e lectron ic
ga mes device, power invert er or sea t heater
for child sea t s) on the front passenger seat
if the device is connected to the 12-volt
socket or the cigarette lighter socket.
- If a seat heater has been retrofitted or oth -
erwise added to the front passenger seat,
never install any child restra int system on
this seat.
- Make sure that there are no wet objects
(such as a wet towel) and no water or other
liquids on the front passenger seat cush ion.
- Never place objects on the seat (such as a
laptop, CD playe r, electronic games device,
power inverter or seat heater for ch ild
seats). These may influence the electrical
capacitance measu red by the capacitive pas-
senger detect ion system and can also fly
aro und in an accident an d cause se rious per-
sonal injury.
- Make sure that the
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light comes on and st ays on a ll the time
wheneve r the ignit ion is swit ched on.
- If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not come on and stay on, immedia t ely in-
stall the forward-fac ing ch ild seat at a
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