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Child Safety
• When using the vehicle safety belt to install
a child safety seat, you must first activate
the convertible locking feature on the safety
belt to prevent the child safety seat from
moving
c::;, page 177
or install the seat using
the LATCH attachments .
• Push the child safety seat down with your
full weight to get the safety belt really tight
so that the seat cannot move forward or
sideways more than one inch (2.5 cm)
c::;, page 177.
• If the child safety seat is equipped with a
tether strap, attach it to the tether anchors
c::;, page 183.
• Secure unused safety belts on the rear seat
c::;, page 172.
A toddler or child is usually too large for an in-
fant restraint if it is more than one year old
and weighs more than 20 lbs. (9 kg).
Toddlers and children who are older than one
year up to about 4 years old and weigh more
than 20 lbs (9 kg) up to 40 lbs . (18 kg) must
always be properly restrained in a child safety
seat certified for their size and weight
c::;, fig. 134
and
c::;, fig . 135.
The airbag on the passenger side makes the
front seat a poten t ially dangerous place for a
child to ride . The front seat is not the safest
place for a child in a forward-facing child safe-
ty seat. It is a very dangerous place for an in-
fant or a larger child in a rearward-facing seat.
A
WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the
wrong child safety seat or improperly in-
stalling a child restraint increases the risk
of serious personal injury and death in a
collision or other emergency situation.
- Children on the front seat of any car,
even with Advanced Airbags, can be seri-
ously injured or even killed when an air-
bag inflates. A child in a rearward-facing
child safety seat installed on the front
passenger seat will be seriously injured
and can be killed if the front airbag in-
-
flates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System .
- The inflating airbag will hit the child
safety seat or infant carrier with great
force and will smash the child safety seat
and child against the backrest, center
arm rest, door or roof .
- Always install rear-facing child safety
seats on the rear seat .
- If you must 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 and
have the airbag system inspected by your
Audi dealer.
- The rear side of the child safety seat
should be positioned as close as possible
to the backrest on the vehicle seat.
- For adjustable head restraints: adjust or
remove the rear seat head restraint if it
is difficult to install the child seat with
the head restraint in place
c::;, page 55.
In-
stall the head restraint again immediate-
ly once the child seat is removed. Driving
without head restraints or with head re-
straints that are not properly adjusted
increases the risk of serious or fatal neck
injury dramatically.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS
whenever using a child restrained in ave-
hicle is being used
¢ page 131, Safety
belts, c::;, page 140, Airbag system
and
c::;, page 166, Important
things to know.
A
WARNING
-
If exceptional circumstances require the
use of a forward-facing child restraint on
the front passenger's seat, the child's safe-
ty and well-being require that the follow-
ing special precautions be taken:
- Make sure the forward-facing seat has
been designed and certified by its manu-
facturer for use on a front seat with a
passenger front and side airbag.
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