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- The inflating airbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the chi ld safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof .
- Always install rear-facing child safety seats
on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearward fac ing ch ild
safety seat on the front passenger seat be-
cause of exceptional circumstances and the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on and stay on, immed iate ly install
the rear-fac ing ch ild safety seat in a rear
seating pos it ion and have the airbag system
inspected by your a uthorized Audi dea le r.
- Forward-fac ing ch ild safety sea t s installed
on the front passenger's seat may interfere
with the deployment of the airbag and
cause serious personal injury to the child.
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WARNING
If, in except ional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward-facing chi ld restraint on the
front passenger 's seat:
- Always ma ke sure the forward-fac ing seat
has been designed and certified by its man-
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and s ide a irbag.
- Never put the forward-facing child restraint
up against or very near the instrument pan-
el.
- Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest position in the up and down ad -
justment range and move it back to the
rea rmost position in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment range, as fa r away from the air-
bag as possib le, before insta lling the for-
ward- facing child restra int .
- Always ma ke sure t hat the safety belt upper
anchorage is beh ind the child restrain t a nd
not next to or in front of the chi ld restraint
so that the safety belt will be properly pos i-
tioned.
- Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignition is switched on.
Airb a g sys tem
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WARNING
To reduce the risk of serious injury, make sure
that the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light will
be d isplayed whenever a child restraint is in-
stalled on the front passenger seat and the
ignition is switched on .
- If
the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does
not stay on , perform t he checks desc ribed
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page 158, Monitoring the Advanced Air-
bag System.
- Take the child restra int off t he front passen-
ge r seat and install it prope rly at one of the
rear sea t positions if the PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF light does not stay on .
- Have the a irbag system inspec t ed by your
author ized Audi dealer immed iate ly.
- Always carefully follow ins t ructions from
child restrain t manufacture rs when instal-
ling child restraints .
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward or rearward-facing child re-
stra int on the front passenger's seat:
- Imp roper installation of child restraints can
reduce their effectiveness or even prevent
them from providing any protect ion.
- An improperly installed child restra int can
interfere with the airbag as it deploys and
serious ly injure or even kill the chi ld - even
with an Advanced Airbag System.
- Always care fully follow the manufacturer 's
instr uctions provided with the child safety
seat or carr ie r.
- Never place add itiona l items on the seat
that can increase the total weight registered
by the weight -sensing mat and can cause in-
jury in a crash.
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