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Airb a g syste m
A
WARNING
A child in a rearward-facing child seat instal-
led on the front passenger seat will be seri-
ously injured and can be killed if the front air-
bag inflates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System.
- Although the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle is designed to turn off the front
airbag when a rearward-facing child re-
straint has been installed on the front pas-
senger seat, nobody can absolutely guaran-
tee that deployment is impossible in all con-
ceivable situations that may happen dur ing
the usef ul life of you r vehicle.
- The inf lating a irbag will hit the child seat or
infa nt carrier w ith great force and will
smash the ch ild seat and child agains t the
backrest, center armrest, door, or roo f.
- Always insta ll rearward -fa cing child re-
straints on the rear sea t.
- If you mus t install a rearward facing chi ld
seat on the fron t passenger sea t beca use of
exceptional circumstances and the PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on
and stay on, immediately install the rear -
facing child seat in a rear seating position
and have the a irbag system inspected by
your Audi dealer.
A
WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward-facing chi ld restraint on the
front passenger 's seat:
-Always make sure the forward-fac ing seat
has been designed and ce rtified by its man-
ufact urer for use on a front seat wit h a pas-
senger front and side airbag.
- Never put the forwa rd-facing child rest raint
up against or very nea r the instrument pan-
el.
- Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in the se at 's fore and aft
adjustment range, as far away from the air-
bag as possib le, before installing the fo r-
war d -fac ing child restraint . The backrest
must be adjuste d to an up right position .
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- Always ma ke sure that there is nothing on
the front passenger 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 a ctua lly
sitti ng on the se at . The presence of addi-
tional objects could cause the passenger
front airbag to be turned on when it s hou ld
be off, or could cause the a irbag to wo rk in a
way that is different from the way it would
have worked 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 vehicle has a lot
of very impo rtant parts of the Advanced Airbag
System in it . These pa rts include the capacitive
passenger detection system, wir ing, brackets,
and more. The control unit mon itors t he system
o n the fron t passenger seat when the ign it 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 ~ page 155 . Because
the front passenger seat contains important
parts of the Adv a need 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:
- Cras h sensors in the front of the vehicle that
measu re vehicle acceleration/deceleration
to
provide info rmat ion t o t he Advanced Airbag
System abo ut t he sever ity of the crash.
- An ele ct ronic contro l unit, with integrated
crash sensor s for front a nd s ide impac t s. The
cont rol uni t "dec ides" whether to fire t he fron t
airbags based on the information received from
the crash se nsors . The control unit a lso "de -
cides" whether the safety belt pretensioners
should be activated.
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