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Advanced front airbag system
Your vehicle
is equipped w
ith
a front Advanced
Airbag System
in
compliance
with
United States
Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
208
asap-
plicable at
the
time
your vehicle was manufac-
tured.
The front
Advanced Airbag
System supplements
the safety
belts
to provide additiona
l
protection
for the driver's and
front
passenger's
heads
and
upper
bodies
in frontal crashes. The airbags in-
flate only in frontal impacts when the vehicle de-
celeration is
high
enough.
The
front
Advanced Airbag System
for the front
seat occupants is
not
a substitute for your safety
be lts. Rather, it is part of the overall
occupant re-
straint system in your vehicle. Always remember
that the airbag system can only help to protect
you,
if
you are sitt ing
upright,
wearing your safe-
ty
belt
and wearing it properly
.
This is why you
and your
passengers must
always
be properly re-
strained,
not just
because
the
law requires you
to
be.
The Advanced Airbag System
in
your veh icle has
been certified to
meet
the "low
risk"
require-
ments for
3 and
6
year-old
children on the
pas-
senger
side
and very small
adults on the
driver
side
.
The
low risk deployment criteria are
intend-
ed to
help
reduce the risk of
injury
through inter
-
action with the front airbag that can occur, for
examp le, by being too close to the steering whee
l
and instrument panel when the airbag inflates.
In addition, the system has
been
certified to
comp ly with the "suppression" requirements
of
the Safety Standard, to turn off the front airbag
for
infants
12 months old and younger who are
restra ined on
the
front passenger seat in child re-
straints that are listed
in
the Standard
c::>
page 154, Child restraints and
Advanced
Air-
bags.
"Suppression" requires the front airbag on the
passenger side
to
be
turned
off if:
- a ch
ild
up to about one year of age is restrained
on the front passenger seat in one of the
rear-
facing
or forward-fac ing infant
restraints
listed
in
Federa
l
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208
Airbag
system
with which the Advanced Airbag System in your
vehicle was certified. For a listing of the child
restraints that were
used
to certify your veh
i-
cle's compliance with the
US
Safety Standard
c::>page 154,
- weight less than a thresho ld level stored in the
control unit is detected on the front passenger
seat.
When a
person
is detected on the front passen
-
ger seat, weighing more than the tota
l
weight of
a child that is about 1 year
old restrained
in one
of the rear-facing
or
forward-facing infant re-
stra ints (listed
in
Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety
Standard
208
with which
the
Advanced Airbag
System
in
your veh icle was
certified),
the front
airbag on
the
passenge
r
side may or may not de-
ploy.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
whe
n
the
electronic
cont
rol
unit detects a total
weight on
the front passenger
seat
that requires
the front airbag to be turned off.
If
the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on, the
front airbag on the passenger side has not been
turned off by the control
unit
and can deploy if
the control un it senses an impact that meets the
condit ions stored in
its
memory.
If the total weight on the front passenger seat is
more than that of a typical 1 year-old, but less
than the weight of a small adult, the front airbag
on the passenger s ide may deploy (the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not
come on).
For
example
,
the airbag may deploy if:
-
a small child that
is heav ier
than a typical
1
yea r-old chi
ld
is on the front
passenger
seat (re
-
gardless of whether the chi ld is
in
one of the
child safety seats listed
c::>
page 154),
-
a child who
has
outgrown child restraints
is on
the front
passenger
seat.
If the front passenger airbag
is
turned
off,
the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light in
the center of
the
instrument
pane
l
will
come
on and stay on.
The front airbag on
the
passenge
r
s ide
may
not
deploy (the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light
does
not illuminate
and
stay
lit)
if:
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