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Airb a g sys tem
- Never put the forward-facing child re-
straint up aga inst or very near the instru-
ment panel.
- Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in the seat's fore and
aft adjustment range, as far away from
the a irbag as poss ible, before installing
the forward-facing child restraint. The
backrest must be adjusted to an upr ight
posit io n.
- Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays on all the
t ime whenever the ignition is switched
on.
Advanced Airbag System components
The front passenger seat in your vehicle has a
lot of very important parts of the Advanced
Airbag System in it. These parts include the
weight-sensing mat, sensors, wiring, brack-
ets, and more. The function of the system in
the front passenger seat is checked by the
electronic control un it when the ign it ion is on .
The control unit mo nitors the Advanced Air-
bag System and turns the airbag indicator
light on whe n a malfunction in the system
components is det ected. The function of the
a irbag ind icator light is described in greater
detai l be low. Because the front passenger
seat contains important parts of the Ad-
vanced Airbag System, you must take care to
prevent it from be ing damaged. Damage to
the seat may prevent the Advanced Airbag for
the front passenger seat from doing its job in
a crash .
The f ront Advanced Airbag System
consists of the following:
- Crash senso rs in the front of the veh icle that
measure veh icle acceleration/deceleration
to provide information to the Advanced Air-
bag System abo ut the seve rity of the crash.
- An electron ic contro l unit, with integ rated
crash sensors for fron t and side impacts.
The contro l unit "dec ides " whether to fire
the front airbags based on the information
received from the crash sensors . The contro l
unit also "decides" whether the safety be lt
pretensioners sho uld be activated.
- An Advanced Airbag with gas generato r for
the driver inside the steering wheel hub.
- An Advanced Airbag w ith gas generato r in-
side the inst rument panel for the front pas -
senger.
- A we ight -sensing mat under the upho lstery
padding of the front passenger seat cushion
that measures the total weight on the seat .
The informat ion registered is sent continu-
ously to the electronic control unit to regu-
late deployment of the front Advanced Air-
bag on the passenger side .
- An airbag monitoring system and indicator
light in the instrument cluster <=> page 122 .
- The PAS SENGER AIR BAG OFF light comes
on and stays on in the center of the instru-
ment panel
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page 122, fig . 115 and tells
you when the front Advanced Airbag on the
passe nger side has been tu rned off.
- A senso r below the safety be lt latch for the
front seat passenger to measure the tension
on t he safety be lt. The tension on the safety
be lt a nd the weight registered by the
weigh t-sensing ma t he lp the contro l unit
"decide" whether the front airbag fo r the
front passenger seat should be turned off or
not
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page 113, Child restraints on the
front seat - some important things to
know.
- A sensor in the safety be lt latch for the driv-
er and for the front seat passenger that
senses whether that safety belt is latched or
not and transmits this information to the
electronic control un it .
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WARNING
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Damage to the front passenger seat can
prevent the fro nt airbag from wor king
properly.
- Imp roper repai r or d isassembly of the
fr ont passenger and dr iver sea t will pre-
vent the Advanced Airbag System from
functioning properly.
- Repa irs to the front passenge r seat m ust
be performed by qualifie d and properly
trained workshop personnel.
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