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- Never attach a tether strap to a tie-down
hook in the luggage compartment.
- Never use child restraint tether ancho-
rages to secure safety belts or other
kinds of occupant restraints .
- Never secure or attach any luggage or
other items to the LATCH lower ancho-
rages or to the tether anchors.
- If a tether or other strap is used to at-
tach a child restraint to the front passen-
ger seat, make sure that it is not so
tight, that it causes the weight-sensing
mat to measure mo re weight than is ac-
tually on the seat .
- The heav ier weight reg istered can make
the Advanced Airbag System work as
though an adult were on the seat and de-
ploy the Advanced Airbag when it must
be s uppressed causing serious or even
fat al injury to the child .
- If you mus t install a rearward facing
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 the rear-facing child
safety seat in a rear seating position a nd
have t he a irbag system inspected by you r
Audi dealer.
Installing the upper tether strap on the
anchorage
Fig. 160 Tether strap: proper routi ng and mount i ng
Inst alling the tether strap
.. Release or deploy the tether strap on the
child restra int according to the child re-
stra int manufacturer's instructions.
Child S a f ety
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.. Guide the upper tether strap under the rear
head restraint
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fig.
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(raise the head re-
straint if necessary).
.. Tilt the recess flap up to expose the anchor
bracket.
.. Attach the tether strap anchorage hook into
the opening of t he tether anchorage .
.. Pull on the tether strap hook so that the
spr ing catch of the hook engages .
.. Tighten the t et her st rap firmly fo llowing
t he child restra int manufac t urer's inst ruc-
tions .
Releasing the tether strap
.. Loosen the tension follow ing the child re-
st raint manufacture r's instr uctions.
.. Depress the spring cat ch on t he hook and
re lease it from the ancho rage.
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Note
If you leave t he child restra int with the
tethe r strap firmly inst alle d for several
days, this could leave a mark on the up-
ho lstery on the seat cushion and backrest
in the area where the tether strap was in-
stalled. The upholstery would also be per-
manently stretched around the tether
strap . This applies espec ia lly to leather
seats .
Using tether straps on rearward-facing
child restraints
Curre ntly, few rearward-facing child restraint
systems come with a tether . Please read and
heed the child restraint system manufactur -
er's instr uctions carefully to determine how to
properly install the tether .
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WARNING
-
A child in a rearward-fac ing ch ild safety
seat installed on the front passenger seat
will be ser ious ly injured and can be killed if
the front airbag inflates - even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System .
- The inflating airbag will hit the ch ild
safety sea t or infan t carrie r wit h great
for ce a nd will smas h the child safety se at
.,.
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