Child Safety Seats - Audi A8 2015 Owner's Manual

180 Child S a fet y
Child safety seats
Infant seats
Babies and infants up to about one year old
and 20 lbs. or 9 kg need special rearward-fac -
ing child restraints that support the back,
neck and head in a crash.
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Fig. 176 Schematic overview: rearward- fac ing infant
seat, properly instal led on the rea r seat
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When using the vehicle safety belt to install
a ch ild safety seat, you must first activate
the convertible locking retractor on the
safety belt to prevent the child safety seat
from moving ¢ page 184 or install the seat
using the LATCH attachments.
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Push the child safety seat down with your
full weight to get the safety belt rea lly tight
so that the seat cannot move forward or
sideways more than one inch (2.5 cm).
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Secure unused safety belts on the rear seat
¢ page 179.
Infants up to about one year (20 lbs. or 9 kg)
are best protected in special infant carriers
and child safety seats designed for their age
group . Many experts believe that infants and
small children should ride only in spec ial re-
straints in which the chi ld faces the back of
the vehicle . These infant seats support the ba-
by's back, neck and head in a crash ¢
fig. 176.
The airbag on the passenger side makes the
fro nt seat a potentially dangerous place for a
child t o ride . The front seat is not the safest
place for a child in a forwa rd-facing child seat.
It is a very dangerous place for an infant or a
larger child in a rearward-facing seat .
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WARNING
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Not using a child safety seat, using the
wrong child safety seat or improperly in-
stalling a ch ild restra int increases the risk
of ser ious personal inj ury and death in a
crash.
- Never install rear-facing child safety
seats or infant ca rrie rs on the front pas-
senger sea t - even with an Advanced Air-
bag Syst em. A child will be ser iously in-
jured and can be killed whe n the inflat -
ing ai rbag hits the child safety seat or in-
fant carrier with great force and smashes
the child safety seat and child against
the backrest, center armrest, door or
roof ¢ page 153, Child restraints on the
front seat - some important things to
know.
- Always install rear-facing ch ild safety
seats or infant ca rrie rs on the rear seat .
- Never install a rear-fac ing ch ild restra int
in the forward-fac ing direct ion. Such re-
straints are designed for the special
needs of infants and very small ch ild ren
a nd cannot protect them prope rly if the
seat is forward- facing.
- If you m ust insta ll a rearwa rd fa cing
child s afety seat on th e fro nt passenger
seat because of exceptiona l circumstan-
ces and the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come o n and stay on, im-
mediately insta ll the rear-fac ing child
safety seat in a rear seating position and
have the airbag system inspected by your
Audi deale r.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS
whenever us ing a child restrained in ave-
hicle is being used
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belts,
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page 151, Airbag system and
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page 174, Important things to know.