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Advanced front airbag system
Your veh icle is equipped with a front Advanced
Airbag System in compliance with United States
Federa l Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208, as
well as Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
(CMVSS) 208 as applicable at the time your vehi-
cle was manufactured .
The front Advanced Airbag System supp lements
the safety belts to provide additional protection
for the driver 's and front passenger's heads and
upper bodies in frontal crashes . The airbags in-
f late only in frontal impacts when the veh icle de-
cele rat ion is high enough.
The front Advanced Airbag System for the front
seat occupants is not a substitute for your safety
be lts . Rather, it is part of the overall occupant re-
st ra int system in your vehicle. Always remember
that the airbag system can on ly help to protect
you, if you are sitting upr ight, wear ing your safe-
ty belt and wear ing it prope rly. This is why you
and your passengers must always be prope rly re-
stra ined, not just beca use the law req uires you t o
be .
The Advanced Airbag System in your veh icle has
been ce rtified to meet the "low risk" requi re-
ments fo r 3 and 6 year -old children o n the pas-
senger side and very sma ll adults on the drive r
side . The low risk dep loyment criteria are intend-
ed to help reduce the risk of injury through inter-
action with the front a irbag that can occur, for
examp le, by being too close to the steering wheel
and instrument panel when the airbag inflates .
In addition , the system has been certified to
comp ly with the "suppression" requi rements of
the Safety Standard, to turn off the front a irbag
for infants 12 months old and younger who are
restrained on the front passenger seat in child re-
stra ints that are listed in the Standa rd
¢
page 170, Child restraints and Advanced Air-
bags.
"Suppress ion" requ ires the front a irbag on the
passenger side to be turned off if:
- a ch ild up to about one year of age is restra ined
on the front passenger seat in one of the rear-
facing or forward -fac ing infant restra ints listed
Airb a g sys tem
in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208
with which the Advanced Airbag System in your
veh icle was certif ied. For a Listing of the child
restraints that were used to certify your vehi -
cle's compliance with the US Safety Standard
¢ page 170,
- weight less than a threshold level stored in the
cont rol un it is detected on the front passenger
seat .
When a person is detected on the front passen-
ger seat, weighing more than the total weight of
a chi ld that is about 1 year old restra ined in one
of the rear-facing or forward -fac ing infant re-
straints (listed in Federal Motor Veh icle Safety
Standard 208 with which the Advanced Airbag
System in your veh icle was certified), the front
airbag on t he passenge r s ide may o r may not de-
ploy .
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes o n
whe n the elect ronic con t rol unit detects a tota l
weight on the fron t passenger sea t t hat req uires
the front a irbag to be turned off . If the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on, the
front airbag on the passenger side has not been
turned off by the control unit and can dep loy if
the control unit senses an impact that meets the
condit io ns stored in its memory .
If the total weight on the front passenger seat is
more than that of a typica l 1 year-old, but less
than the weight of a small adult, the front airbag
on the passenger s ide may deploy (the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on) .
For example , the ai rbag may deploy if :
- a sma ll ch ild that is heav ier t han a typ ica l 1
yea r-old child is on the front passenger seat
(regard less of whether the child is in one of the
child safety seats listed
¢
page 170),
- a child who has outgrown child restraints is on
the front passenger seat.
If the front passenge r a irbag is t urned off, the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light in the center of
the instr ument pane l will come on and stay on .
The front airbag on the passenger side may
not
deploy (the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not illuminate and stay lit) if:
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