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pa ge 193, PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light .
Always remember, a child safety seat or infant
carrier installed on the front seat may be
struck and knocked out of position by the rap-
idly inflating passenger's airbag in a frontal
collision. The airbag could greatly reduce the
effectiveness of the child restraint and even
seriously injure the child during inflat ion.
For this reason, and because the back seat is
the safest place for children - when properly
restra ined accord ing to their age and size - we
strongly recommend that children always sit
in the back seat ¢
page 203, Child Safety.
A
WARNING
A child in a rearward-facing child safety
seat insta lled on the front passenger seat
will be seriously injured and can be killed if
t he front airbag inflates - even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System .
- The inflating airbag will hit the child
safety seat or infant carrier wit h great
force and will smash the child 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 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-
med iately install the rear-facing child
safety seat in a rear seating posit ion and
have the airbag system inspected by your
authori zed Audi dealer.
- Forward-facing child safety seats instal-
led on the front passenger's seat may in-
terfere with the deployment of t he air-
bag and cause serious person al injury to
the child.
WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you mus t
install a forwa rd-facing child restra int on
the front passenger's seat:
A irbag sys tem
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- Always ma ke sure the forward-facing
seat has been designed and certified by
its manufacturer for use on a front seat
wit h a passenger front and side airbag.
- Never put the forward-facing child re-
straint up against or very near the instru-
ment panel.
- Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in t he seat's fore and
aft adjustment range, as far away from
the airbag as possible before installing
the forward-fa cing child restra int. The
backrest must be adjuste d to an upright
posit ion.
- Make sure that t he
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light comes on and stays on all the
time wheneve r the ignition is swit ched
on.
A
WARNING
To
reduce the risk of serious injury, make
sure that the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light will be displayed whenever a child re-
straint is installed on the front passenger
seat and the ignition is switched on.
- If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light
does not stay on, perform the checks de-
scribed ¢
page 193, Monitoring the Ad-
vanced Airbag System .
- Take t he child restraint off the front pas-
senger seat and install it properly at one
of the rear seat positions if the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not stay on.
- Have the airbag system inspected by
your author ized Audi dealer immed iate-
ly.
- Always carefully follow instr uctions from
child rest raint manufa cture rs when in-
st alling child restra ints.
A
WARNING
If,
in except iona l circumstan ces, you must
insta ll a forward or rearward-facing child
restra int on the front passenger's seat:
- Imp roper inst allation of child restraints
can reduce t heir effect iveness or even
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