Child Safety Seats - Audi AS Coupe 2014 Owner's Manual

Child
safety seats
Infant seats
Babies and infants up to about one year old
and 20 lbs. or 9 kg need special rearward-fac -
ing child restraints that support the back,
neck and head in a crash.
Fig. 143
Schemati c overview: rearward-fac ing infant
seat, properly installed o n the rear seat
.,. When using the vehicle safety belt to install
a child safety seat, you must first activate
the convertible locking retractor on the
safety belt to prevent the child safety seat
from moving
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or install the seat
using the LA TCH attachments.
.,. Push the child safety seat down with your
full weight to get the safety belt rea lly tight
so that the seat cannot move forward or
sideways more than one inch (2.5 cm).
.,. Secure unused safety belts on the rear seat
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Infants up to about one year (20 lbs . or 9 kg)
are best protected in special infan t carriers
and child safety seats designed for their age
group . Many experts believe that infants and
small children should ride only in spec ial re-
straints in which the ch ild faces t he back of
the vehicle. These infant seats support the ba-
by's back, neck and head in a crash
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fig. 143.
The airbag on the passenger side makes the
front seat a po t entially dangerous place for a
child to ride . The front seat is not the safest
place for a child in a forward -facing child seat.
It is a very dangerous place for an infant or a
larger child in a rearward-facing seat.
Child S a f ety 16 7
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WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the
wrong child safety seat or improperly in-
stall ing a ch ild restraint increases the risk
of ser ious personal injury and death in a
crash.
- Never install rearwa rd-facing child safety
seats or infant ca rrie rs on the front pas-
senger seat - even with an Advanced Air-
bag Syst em. A ch ild will be ser iously in-
jured and can be killed when the inflat -
ing airbag hits the child safety seat or in-
fant carrier with great force and smashes
the child safety seat and child against
the backrest, center armrest, door or
roof ¢
page 138, Child restraints on the
front seat- some important things to
know .
-Always install rearward -facing chi ld safe-
ty seats or infant carriers on the rear
seat .
- Never install a rearward -facing ch ild re-
straint in the forward-facing direction .
Such rest ra ints are designed for the spe-
cial needs of infants and very sma ll chil-
dren and cannot pro tect them properly if
the seat is forward -facing.
- If you must insta ll a rearwa rd fac ing
child safety seat on the front passenger
seat because of exceptional circumstan -
ces and the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on and stay on, im-
mediately install t he rearward-facing
child safety seat in a rear seating posi-
tion and have the airbag system inspect-
ed by your authorized Audi dealer .
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS
wheneve r us ing a child restrained in ave-
hicle is being used ¢
page 129, Safety
belts,
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page 13
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Airbag system
and
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page 161, Impor tant things to know .