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The inflating airbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the child safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof
.
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Always install rear-facing child safety seats
on the rear seat
.
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If you must install a rearward facing child
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
seat ing pos ition and have the airbag system
inspected by your authorized Audi dea ler.
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Forward-facing ch ild safety seats installed
on the front passenger's seat may interfere
with the deployment of the airbag and
cause serious personal injury to the child
.
A
WARNING
If, in except ional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward-facing chi ld restraint on the
front passenger's seat:
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Always make sure the forward-facing seat
has been designed and certified by its man-
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side a irbag
.
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Never put the forward-facing child restraint
up against or very near the instrument pan-
el.
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Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost 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. The bac krest
mus
t
be adjusted to an up right posit ion.
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Make sure that the
PASSENGER AI
R
BAG
OFF
light comes on and
st
ays on all the time
whenever
t
he ignition is switched on.
A
WARNING
To red uce the risk of serio us
inj
ury, make sure
that the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light will
be displayed whenever a child restraint is in-
stalled on the front passenger seat and the
ign ition is switched on.
132
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If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light does
not stay on, perform the checks described
¢
page 139, Monitoring the Advanced Air-
bag System
.
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Take the child restra int off the front passen-
ger seat and install it properly at one of the
rear seat positions if the
PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF
light does not stay on
.
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Have the airbag system inspected by your
author ized Audi dealer immed iately
.
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Always carefully follow instructions from
child restraint manufacturers
when instal
-
ling child restra ints.
A
WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward or rearward-fac ing child re-
stra int on the fron
t
passenger's seat:
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Improper installat ion of child restraints can
reduce the ir effectiveness or even prevent
them from provid ing any pro
t
ect ion.
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An improperly installed child
rest
ra int can
inter fere with the airbag as it deploys and
serious ly injure or even kill the child
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eve
n
with an Advanced Airbag System.
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Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instructions provided with the child safe ty
seat o
r
carrier.
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Never place add ition
al
items on the seat
that can increase the tota
l
weight registered
by the weight -sensing mat and can cause
in-
jury in a crash
.
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