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Adjusting safety belt height
With the aid of the safety belt height adjust-
ment, the three point safety belt strap rout-
ing can be fitted to the shoulder area, accord-
ing to body size .
Fig. 121
Safety belt height adju stmen t for the front
seats - loop-around fittin gs
The shoulder belt should lie as close to the
center of the collar bone as possible and
should fit well on the body ¢ ,&.
in Safety belt
position on page 136 .
.,. Push
the loop -around fittings up
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fig. 121
@,
or
.,. squeeze
together the @ button, and
push
the loop-around fittings
down @ .
.,. Pull the belt to make sure that the upper at -
tachment is properly engaged.
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WARNING
Always read and heed all WARNINGS and
other important information
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page 134 .
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Tips
With the front seats, the height adjust-
ment of the seat can also be used to adjust
the position of the safety belts.
Improperly worn safety belts
Incorrectly positioned safety belts can cause
severe injuries.
Wearing safety belts improperly can cause se-
rious injury or death. Safety belts can only
work when they are correctly positioned on
the body. Improper seating positions reduce
the effectiveness of safety belts and will even
increase the risk of injury and death by mov-
Safety
belts
13 7
ing the safety belt to critical areas of the
body. Improper seating positions also in-
crease the risk of serious injury and death
when an airbag deploys and strikes an occu-
pant who is not in the correct seating posi-
tion . A driver is responsible for the safety of
all vehicle occupants and especially for chil-
dren . Therefore:
.,. Never permit anyone to assume an incorrect
sitting position in the vehicle while traveling
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A
WARNING
Improperly worn safety belts increase the
risk of serious persona l injury and death
whenever a vehicle is being used.
- Always make sure that all vehicle occu-
pants are correctly restra ined and stay in
a correct seating position whenever the
vehicle is being used.
-Always read and heed all WARNINGS and
other important information
r:::>page 134 .
Safety
belt
preten-
sioners
How safety belt pretensioners work
In front, side and rear-end collisions above a
particular severity and in a rollover, safety
belts are tensioned automatically .
Reversible safety belt tensioners
The safety belts on the front seats are equip-
ped with power reversible tensioners . The fol-
lowing functions are avai lable when the driv-
er's/front passenger's safety belts are fas-
tened:
-Automatic
tensioners: at the start of a drive,
the safety belts automatically adjust to the
passenger after a certain time period or ve-
hicle speed . To switch the automatic ten-
sioners off, select the following in the MMI: .,..
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