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Child safety
exceptional circumstances and the
PASSEN·
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on
and stay on, immediately
install
the rear-
ward-facing child safety seat in a rear seat-
ing
position and have the airbag system
in-
spected
immediately
by your authorized
Audi dealer.
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WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward-facing child restraint on
the
front passenger's seat:
-
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 airbag.
-
Always
follow
the manufacturer's
instruc-
tions provided with the child safety seat or
carrier.
-
Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment range, as far away from the air-
bag as possible before
installing
the child
restraint. The backrest must be adjusted to
an
upright
position.
- Always make sure that the
PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF
light comes on and stays on all the
time whenever the ignition is switched on.
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Tips
Always replace child restraints that were
in-
stalled in a vehicle during a crash. Damage to
a child restraint that is not visible could cause
it to fail
in
another collision situation.
Advanced front airbag system and children
Your vehicle is equipped with a front "Advanced
Airbag System" in compliance with United States
Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
208,
as
well as Canada Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard (CMVSS)
208
as applicable at the time
your vehicle was manufactured.
The
Advanced Airbag system
in
your vehicle has
been certified
to
meet
the
"low-risk"
require-
ments for 3- and 6-year old children on
the
pas-
senger side and small adults on the driver side.
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The low risk deployment criteria are intended
to
reduce the risk of injury through interaction with
the airbag that can occur, for example, by being
too close to the steering wheel and instrument
panel when the airbag
inflates.
In addition, the
system has been certified to comply with the
"suppression" requirements
of the Safety Stand-
ard,
to
turn off the front airbag for
infants
up to
12 months who are restrained on the front pas-
senger seat
in child
restraints that are listed
in
the Standard.
Even though your vehicle is equipped with an Ad-
vanced Airbag system, all children, especially
those
12
years
and
younger, should
always
ride
in
the back seat properly restrained
for their
age
and size. The airbag on the passenger side makes
the front seat a potentially dangerous place for a
child to ride. The front seat is not the safest place
for a child in a forward-facing child safety seat. It
can be a very dangerous place for an
infant
or a
larger
child in a rearward-facing seat.
· Advanced Airbags and the weight -sensing
mat in the front seat
The Advanced Airbag System
in
your vehicle de-
tects the presence of
an
infant or child in a child
restraint on the front passenger seat
using
the
weight-sensing
mat in the seat cushion and the
sensor below the safety belt
latch
on the front
passenger seat that measures the tension on the
safety belt
.
The weight-sensing
mat measures total weight
of the child and the child safety seat and a child
blanket on the front passenger seat. The weight
on the front passenger seat is related to the de-
sign of the child restraint and its ''footprint", the
size and shape of the bottom of the child re-
straint as it sits on
the
seat.
The
weight of a child
restraint
and its "footprint" vary for different
kinds
of
child restraints
and for
the
different
models of
the
same kind of child restraint of-
fered by child restraint manufacturers.
The weight ranges for
the individual types,
makes and models of child restraints
that
the
NHTSA has specified in the Safety Standard to-
gether with the weight ranges of typical infants
.,.
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