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Airbag
system
restraints or occupants on the front passen-
ger seat and prevent the side airbag in the
seat backrest from deploying properly.
-
Never use cushions, pillows, blankets or
similar
items
on the front passenger
seat.
The additional padding will prevent
the
weight-sensing mat in the seat from accu-
rately registering the child restraint or per-
son on the seat and prevent the Advanced
Airbag System from functioning properly.
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If
you must use a child restraint on the front
passenger seat and the child
restraint
man-
ufacturer's
instructions
require the use of a
towel,
foam
cushion or something else to
properly position the child restraint, make
certain that
the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light
comes
on and
stays
on whenever the
child
restraint
is
installed on the front pas-
senger
seat.
-
If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not come on and
stay
on, immediately
in-
stall
child restraint in a rear seating position
and have the airbag system inspected by
your authorized Audi dealer.
How the Advanced Airbag System
components work together
The front Advanced Airbag System and
the
side
airbags supplement the protection offered by the
front three-point safety belts with pretensioners
and load
limiters and the adjustable head
re-
straints to
help reduce
the risk
of injury in a
w ide
range
of
accident and
crash
s ituations.
Be sure
to
read the important
information
about
safety
and
heed the WARNINGS
in
this chapter.
Deployment of the Advanced Airbag System and
the activation
of
the safety
belt pretensioners de-
pend on the deceleration measured by the
crash
sensors and registered by the electronic
control
unit
.
Crash severity depends on speed and decel-
eration
as well as
the
mass and stiffness of
the
vehicle or object involved
in
the
crash.
On the passenger
s
ide,
regardless of safety belt
use, the airbag will be turned off
if
the weight on
the passenger seat is less
than the
amount pro-
grammed
in
the electronic control unit
.
The front
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airbag on the passenger side will also be turned
off
if
one of the child
safety
seats
that
has been
certified under
Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard
208
has been recognized on
the seat.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light
comes
on
and stays
on
to
tell you when
the
front Advanced
Airbag on the passenger side
has
been turned off
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page 133, Child restraints on the front seat
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some important
things
to know
.
.&_
WARNING
To
reduce the risk of injury when an
airbag
in-
flates, always wear safety belts properly.
- If
you are unrestrained,
leaning
forward, sit-
ting sideways or out of position in any way,
your risk of
injury is
much higher.
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You will also receive serious
injuries 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
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page 132.
More important things to know about front
airbags
Fig.
149
Inflated
front airbags
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Safety belts are
impor
tant
to help keep front seat
occupants in the proper seated position so
that
airbags can unfold
properly and provide
supple-
mental protection in
a frontal
collision.
The front airbags are designed
to
provide addi-
tiona
l
protection
for
the chest and
face
of the
driver
and
the front seat passenger when:
- safety belts are worn properly,
- the
seats have been positioned so
that
the oc-
cupant is properly seated as far as possible
from the airbag,
.,._
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