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a
g
syste
m
- a small adu lt or teenager is on the front
pas-
senger seat
-
a passenger who is not sitting upright with
their back against a non-reclined backrest with
their feet on the vehicle floor in front of the
seat is on the front passenger seat.
If the front passenger airbag deploys, the Federal
Standard requires the airbag to meet the " low
risk" deployment criteria to help reduce the risk
of injury through interaction with the airbag
.
"Low risk" deployment occurs in those crashes
that take place at lower decelerations as defined
in the electron ic control unit
.¢
page
142
Always
remember:
Even though your vehicle is
equipped w ith Advanced Airbags, the safest place
for children is properly restrained on the back
seat
.
Please be sure to read the important infor
-
mat ion in the sections that follow and be sure to
heed
all
of the WARNINGS.
_&
WARNING
To reduce the ris
k
of injury when an airbag in-
fla
t
es, always wear safety belts proper ly.
-
If
you are unrestrained, leaning fo rward, sit-
t ing sideways or out of position in any way,
your risk of injury is much higher
.
-
You w
ill
also receive serious inju ries and
could even be killed if you are up against the
airbag or too close to it when it inflates
-
even with an Advanced Airbag¢ page
132.
_&
WARNING
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 w ith an Advanced Airbag
System.
-
Although the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle is designed to turn off the front
airbag when a rearward -facing child re-
straint has been installed on the front pas-
senger seat, nobody can absolutely guaran-
tee that deployment is impossible in al
l
con-
ceivable situations that may happen dur ing
the useful life
of
your vehicle
.
-
The inflating airbag w
ill
hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier wi
t
h great force and
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w ill smash the child safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door,
or roof.
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Always install rearward-facing chi ld re-
straints in the back seat.
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If you must insta
ll
a rearward fac ing 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 rear-facing child safety seat in a rear
seating position and have the airbag system
inspected by your
aut
horized
Audi
dealer
.
_&
WARNING
If, in exceptiona
l
circumstances, you must in-
stall a forwa rd-facing child restra int on the
front passenger's seat:
-
Always ma ke sure the forward-facing
seat
has been designed and certif ied by its
man-
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side airbag
.
- Never put the fo rward-facing child restraint
up against or very near the instrument
pan-
el.
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Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in the seat's fore and aft
adj
ustment range, as far away from the air-
bag as possible, before insta lling the for-
ward-facing child restraint. The backrest
must be adjusted to an upr ight position
.
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Make sure that the
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ign it ion is switched on.
Advanced Airbag System components
The front passenger seat in your vehicle has a lot
of very impo rtant parts of the Advanced Airbag
System in it. These parts include the we ight
-
sensing mat, sensors, w iring,
bracket
s, and more.
The function of the system in the front
passenger
seat is checked by the electronic control unit
when the ignition is on. The control unit mon itors
the Advanced Airbag System and turns the airbag
indicator light on when a malfunct
ion
in the sys-
tem components is detected. The function of the
airbag indicator light is described in greate
r
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