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Child safety
Toddlers and children who are older than one
year up to about 4 years old and weigh more than
20 lbs. (9 kg) up to 40 lbs. (18 kg) must always
be properly restrained in a child safety seat certi-
fied for their size and weight¢
fig. 143
and
¢
fig. 144
.
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
pla
ce for a
child in a forward-facing child safety seat
.
It is a
very dangerous place for an infant or a larger
child in a
rearward-facing
seat
.
.8,
WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the wrong
child
safety seat or improperly installing a
child restraint increases the risk of serious
personal injury and death in a collision or oth-
er emergency situation.
- Children on the front seat of any car, even
with Advanced Airbags, can be seriously in-
jured or even killed when an airbag inflates.
A child in a rearward-facing child safety seat
installed on the front passenger seat will be
seriously
injured
and can be killed
if
the
front airbag
inflates
- even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System
.
- 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.
-
Always install rearward-facing child safety
seats on
the
rear seat
.
-
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, immediately install
the
rearward-facing
child safety seat in a
rear seating position and have the airbag
system
inspected
by your authorized Audi
dealer.
- The rear side of the child safety seat should
be positioned as close as possible to the
backrest on the vehicle seat. Adjust or
re-
move the
rear
seat head restraint if it
is
dif-
158
ficult to
install
the child seat with the head
restraint
in
place
¢
page 58.
Install the
head restraint again immediately once the
child seat is removed
.
Driving without head
restraints or with head
restraints that
are
not properly adjusted increases the risk of
serious or fatal neck injury dramatically.
-Always
read and heed all
WARNINGS
when-
ever using a child restrained in a vehicle is
being
used
¢page 121, Safety belts,
¢page 129, Airbag system
and
¢
page
151,
Important information.
.8,
WARNING
If
exceptional circumstances require the
use
of a forward-facing child restraint on the
front passenger's seat, the child's safety and
well-being require that the following special
precautions be taken:
-
Make sure the forward-facing seat has been
designed and certified by its manufacturer
for use on a front seat with a passenger
front and side airbag
.
-Always follow the manufacturer's instruc-
tions provided with the child safety seat or
infant carrier.
-
Always move the front passenger seat into
the rearmost position of the passenger
seat's fore and aft adjustment range, and as
far away from the airbag as possible before
installing the
child
restraint
.
-
Always make sure that nothing prevents
the
front passenger's seat from
being
moved to
the rearmost
position
in its fore and
aft
ad-
justment range
.
-
Always make sure the backrest is
in
an up-
right
position
.
-
Make sure that the
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light
comes on and stays on
all
the
time
whenever the ignition is switched on.
-
If the light does not stay on,
perform
the
checks
¢
page 139, Monitoring
the
Ad-
vanced Airbag System.
-
Take the
child restraint
off the front passen-
ger seat
and
install it properly at one of the
rear seat
positions
if the
PASSENGER AIR
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