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Safety belts are im portant to help keep front seat
occupants in the proper seated position so that
airbags can unfold proper ly and provide supp le-
mental protection in a frontal collision.
The front airbags are designed to provide addi-
tional protection for the chest and face of the
driver and the front seat passenger when:
- safety belts are worn properly,
- the seats have been posit ioned so that the oc-
cupant is properly seated as far as poss ible
from the airbag,
- and for adjustable head restraints: the head re-
stra ints have been properly adjusted.
Because airbags inflate in the blink of an eye w ith
g reat force, things you have on your lap o r have
placed on the seat cou ld become dangerous pro-
jectiles, and be pus hed into you if the airbag in-
flates.
When an a irbag deploys, fine dust is released.
This is normal and is not caused by a fire in the
vehicle. This dust is made up mos t ly of a powde r
used to lubricate the airbags as they deploy. It
could irritate skin.
It is impor t an t to remember that while the sup-
plemental a irbag sys t em is designed t o reduce
the likelihood of se rious injuries, othe r injuries,
for example swe lling, bruising and minor abra-
sions, can also happen when airbags inflate . Air-
bags do not protect the arms or the lower parts
of the body. Front airbags supplement the three-
point safety belts only in some frontal collisions
in which the veh icle deceleration is high enough
to deploy the airbags .
Front airbags will not deploy:
- if the ignit ion is switched off when a crash oc-
curs,
- in side collisions,
- in rear-end collisions,
- in rollovers,
- when the crash deceleration measured by t he
airbag system is less t han the minimum t hresh -
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The front passenge r airbag also will not
deploy :
- when t he front passenger seat is not occupied,
- when the e lectr ica l capacitance measured by
the capacitive passenger detection system for
the front passenger seat indicates that the pas -
senger s ide frontal airbag must be switched off
by the electronic control unit (the
PASSENGER
AIR BAG OFF
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and how they
work comes on and stays on).
A
WARNING
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Sitting in the wrong pos ition can increase the
risk of ser ious injury in crashes.
- To reduce the risk of injury when the airbags
inflate, the driver and passenge rs must al-
ways sit in an up right pos ition, must not
lean ag ainst or place any part of the ir body
too close to the area where the a irbags are
located .
- Occupants who are unbel t ed, out of position
or too close to the airbag can be serio usly
injured by an airbag as it unfo lds with great
force in the blink of an eye
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A
WARNING
A child in a rearward-facing ch ild seat insta l-
led on the front passenger seat will be ser i-
ously injured and can be killed if the front a ir-
bag inflates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System.
- The inflating airbag will hit the ch ild seat or
infant carrier with great force and will
smash the child seat and child against the
backrest, cente r armrest, door or roof.
- Always install rear-fac ing ch ild seats on the
rea r seat .
- If you must install a rearward fac ing child
seat on the front passenger seat because of
exceptiona l circumstances and the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on
an d stay on , immedi ately inst all t he rear-
facing chi ld seat in a rear seat ing pos ition
and have the airbag system inspected by
your Audi dea ler.
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