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Airbag
system
Important
things
to
know
Importance of wearing safety belts and
sitting properly
Airbags are only supplemental restraints . For
airbags to do their job, occupants must al-
ways properly wear their safety belts and be
in a proper seating position.
For your safety and the safety of your passen-
gers, before driving off, always:
""Adjust the dr iver's seat and steering wheel
properly¢
page 134,
"" Adjust the front passenger's seat properly
¢ page 59,
""Wear safety be lts properly ¢
page 146,
""Always properly use the proper child re-
stra int to protect ch ildren
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page 174.
In a collision, airbags must inflate within the
blink of an eye and with considerable force.
The supplementa l airbags can cause injuries if
the dr iver or the front seat passenger is not
seated properly . Therefore in order to help the
a irbag to do its job, it is important, both as a
d river and as a passenge r to s it properly at all
times.
By keep ing room between your body and the
steer ing whee l and the front of the passenge r
compartment,
the airbag can inflate fully and
comp lete ly and provide supp lemen t al protec-
tion in ce rtain frontal collisions
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page 134,
Proper occupant seating positions .
For deta ils
on the operation of the seat adjustment con-
trols ¢
page 59.
It's espe cially important that children a re
properly restrained
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page 174.
There is a lot that the d river and the passen-
gers ca n and must do to help the individua l
safety features ins t alled in your Aud i work to-
gether as a system.
Prope r seat ing pos ition is important so that
the front airbag on t he dr iver s ide ca n do its
job. If you have a physical impa irment or con-
A irbag sys tem
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dition that prevents yo u from sitting properly
o n the driver seat with the safety belt properly
fastened and reach ing the peda ls, or if you
have concerns with regard to the function or
operation of the Advanced Airbag System,
please contact your author ized Audi dealer or
qualified wo rkshop, or call Audi Customer Re-
lations at 1-800-822-2834
fo r poss ible modi-
ficat io ns to your veh icle.
When the airbag system dep loys, a gas gener -
ator will fill t he a irbags, break open the pad-
ded cove rs, and inflate between the steer ing
whee l and the dr iver and between the instru-
ment pane l and the fron t passenger. The a ir-
bags will deflate immedia t ely after dep loy-
ment so that the front occupants can see
thro ugh the windshie ld again witho ut inter-
ruption.
All of th is t akes place in t he blink of an eye, so
fast that many people don't even realize that
the airbags have deployed. The airbags a lso
inflate with a great dea l of force and nothing
should be in their way when they deploy.
Front a irbags in combination with properly
wor n safety belts slow down and lim it the oc-
cupant's fo rward movement. Togethe r they
help to preve nt the drive r and front seat pas-
senger from hitti ng pa rts of the inside of the
vehicle while reducing t he forces act ing on t he
occupant dur ing the crash . In this way t hey
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 fronta l
collisions . The trigge ring of the airbag system
depends on the vehicle dece lerat ion rate
caused by the collision and registered by the
electron ic control unit. If t his rate is below
the reference value programmed into the con -
tro l unit, the airbags will not be trigge red,
even t hough the car may be bad ly damaged as
a res ult of the co llision . Vehicle damage, re-
pair costs or even t he lack of vehicle da mage
is not necessarily an indica t ion of whether an
airbag should inflate or not .
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