Audi A3 Sedan 2015 Owner's Manual page 144

142 Airb a g sys t e m
and dia gn ostic equipmen t to properly re-
place any a irbag in your vehicle and
assure system effectiveness in a crash.
- Never permit salvaged or recycle d air-
bags to be installed in your veh icle.
Child restraints on the front seat - some
important things to know
~ Be sure to read the important informat ion
and heed the WARNINGS for important de-
ta ils about ch ild ren and Advanced Airbags
Qpage 166.
Even though your vehicle is equ ipped with an
Advanced Airbag System, make certain that
all children, especially those 12 years and
younger, a lways ride in the back seat properly
restrained for their age and size . The airbag
on the passenger side makes the front seat a
potentially 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 can be a
very dangerous place for an infant or a ch ild in
a rearward-facing seat.
The Advanced Airbag System in your veh icle
has been certified to comply with the require-
ments of United States Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 as applicable at the time
your vehicle was manufactured.
The Standard requires the front a irbag on the
passenger side to be turned off ("sup -
pressed") if a ch ild up to about one year of
age restra ined in one of the rear-facing or fo r-
ward-facing infan t restra ints listed in Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with w hich
the Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
was certified has been installed on the front
passenger seat. Fo r a listing of the child re-
straints that were used to certify compliance
with the US Safety Standard
Q
page 168.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light in the in-
strument panel te lls you when the front Ad-
vanced Airbag on the passenger side has been
turned off by the e lectronic control unit.
Each time you switch on the ignition, the
PAS-
SENGER AIR BAG OFF
light will come on for a
few seconds and :
- w ill stay on if the front passenge r seat is not
occupied,
- w ill stay on if the e lect rica l ca pa citance
meas ured by the capacitive passenger de -
tection system for the front passenger seat
equa ls the combined capacitance of an in-
fant up to about one year of age and one of
the rearward-facing or forward-fac ing ch ild
restraints listed in Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 with wh ich the Ad-
vanced Airbag System in your vehicle was
cert ified . For a listing of the chi ld restraints
tha t were used to certify you r vehi cle's com-
plia nce w it h t he U.S. Safety Standard
Q page 168.
- w ill stay on if there is a small ch ild or child
restraint on the front passenge r seat,
- w ill go off if the front passenger seat is oc-
cupied by an adult as registered by t he ca-
pacitive passenger de t ection system
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page 152, Monitoring the Advanced Air ·
bag System.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
when e lectrica l capacitance registered on the
front passenger seat is eq ua l to or less tha n
the comb ined capacitance of a typica l 1 year-
old infant and one of the rearward-facing or
forward-facing chi ld restraints listed in Feder-
al Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with
wh ich the Advanced Airbag System in your ve-
hicle was certified.
If the total electr ical capacitance registered
on the front passenger seat is more than that
of a typical 1 year -old child but less than the
weight of a small adult , the front airbag on
t he passenger side can deploy (the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on).
If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not come on, the front airbag on the passen-
ger side has not been turned off by t he e lec-
t ro nic cont ro l unit and can deploy if t he con-
t ro l uni t se nses an impact t hat mee t s the con-
dit ions stored in its memory .
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