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A irbag
system
Important
information
Importance of wearing safety belts and
sitting properly
Airbags
are only supplemental restraints. For
airbags
to
do their job, occupants must always
properly wear their safety belts and be in a prop-
er seating position.
For
your safety and the safety of your passen-
gers, before driving off, always
:
""Adjust
the driver's seat and steering wheel
properly
9
page
113,
""Adjust
the front passenger's seat properly
9page
55,
.,.
Wear safety belts properly
9
page 123,
.,.
Always properly use
the
proper child restraint
to protect children
9
page 151.
In
a collision airbags must
inflate
within the blink
of an eye and with considerable force. The sup-
plemental airbags can cause injuries if the driver
or the front seat passenger is not seated proper-
ly.
Therefore in order to help the airbag to do its
job, it is important, both as a driver and as a pas-
senger to sit properly at all times
.
By keeping room between your body and the
steering wheel and the front of the passenger
compartment,
the airbag can inflate fully and
completely and provide supplemental
pro
t
ection
in certain frontal collisions
o
page 113, Correct
passenger seating positions
.
For details on
the
operation of the seat adjustment controls
o
page 55.
It 's especially important that children are proper-
ly
restrained
9
page 151
.
There is a
lot
that the driver and the passengers
can and must do to help the individual safety fea-
tures installed in your Audi work together as a
system.
Proper seating position is important so that the
front airbag on the driver side can do
its
job. If
you have a physical impairment or condition that
prevents you from sitting properly on the driver
seat with the safety belt properly fastened and
Airbag
system
reaching the pedals, special modifications to
your vehicle may be necessary.
Contact
your authorized Audi dealer, or call Audi
Customer
Relations
at 1-800-822-2834.
When
the
airbag system deploys, a gas generator
will fill the airbags
,
break open the padded
cov-
ers, and inflate between the steering wheel and
the
driver
and between
the instrument
panel and
the front passenger.
The
airbags will deflate im-
mediately after deployment so that the front oc-
cupants can see through the windshield again
without interruption.
All of this
takes place
in the blink of an eye, so
fast that many people don't even realize that the
airbags have deployed. The airbags also inflate
with a great deal of force and nothing should be
in their way when they deploy. Front airbags
in
combination with properly worn safety belts slow
down and limit the occupant's forward move-
ment
.
Together
they help to prevent the driver
and front seat passenger from hitting parts of
the
inside
the vehicle while reducing
the
forces
acting on
the
occupant during the crash.
In
this
way they help to reduce the risk of injury to the
head and upper body
in
the crash. Airbags do not
protect the arms or the lower parts of the body.
Both
front airbags will not
inflate in
all frontal
collisions. The triggering of the airbag system de-
pends on the vehicle deceleration rate caused by
the collision and registered by the electronic con-
trol unit
.
If this
rate is
below the reference value
programmed into
t
he control unit, the airbags
will not be triggered, even
though
the car may be
badly damaged as a result of the collision
.
Vehi-
cle
damage, repair
costs
or even the lack of vehi-
cle
damage is
not
necessarily an indication of
whether an airbag should inflate or not.
It
is
not
possible
to define a
range
of vehicle
speeds that will
cover
every possible kind and an-
gle of impact
that
will always trigger
the
airbags
,
since the
circumstances
will vary considerably
be-
tween one collision and another. Important
fac-
tors include, for example, the nature (hard or
soft) of the object which the car
hits,
the angle of
impact, vehicle speed, etc
.
The front airbags will
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