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be properly restrained in a child safety seat certi-
fied for their size and weight
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fig. 157 and
¢
fig. 158.
The airbag on
the
passenger side makes the front
seat a potentially dangerous place
for
a child
to
ride. The front seat is not the safest place for a
child in a forward-facing child safety seat. It is a
very dangerous place for an infant or a
larger
child in a rearward-facing se at.
A
WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the wrong
child safety seat or improperly installing a
child restraint
increases
the risk of serious
personal injury and death in a
collision
or oth-
er emergency situation.
-
Children on the front seat of any car, even
with Advanced Airbags
,
can be
seriously
in-
jured or even killed when
an
airbag inflates.
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 with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System.
-
The inflating airbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the child safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof.
-
Always
install
rearward-facing child safety
seats on the rear seat.
-
If you must install a rearward facing 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 rearward-facing
child safety seat
in a
rear seating position and have the airbag
system inspected by your authorized Audi
dealer.
-
The
rear side of
the
child safety seat should
be positioned as close as possible to the
backrest on the vehicle seat.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child
restrained
in a vehicle is
being used
¢
page 124, Safety belts,
Child
safety
¢
page 132, Airbag system and
¢
page 152, Important information.
A
WARNING
-
If exceptional circumstances require the
use
of a forward-facing child restraint on the front
passenger's seat, the child's safety and well-
being require that the following special pre-
cautions be taken:
- Make sure the forward-facing seat has been
designed and certified by its manufacturer
for use on a front seat with a passenger
front
and side airbag
.
-
Always follow the manufacturer's
instruc-
tions provided with the
child
safety seat or
infant carrier.
-
Always move the front passenger seat into
the rearmost position of the passenger
seat's fore
and
aft
adjustment
range, and as
far away from the airbag as possible before
installing the child restraint.
-
Always make sure that nothing prevents
the
front passenger's seat from being moved to
the rearmost position
in its
fore and aft
ad·
justment range.
-
Always make sure the backrest is in an up-
right position.
- Make sure that
the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light
comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignition is switched on.
-
If
the light does not stay on
,
perform the
checks
¢
page 142, Monitoring the Ad-
vanced Airbag System.
-
Take the child restraint off the front passen-
ger seat and install
it
properly at one of the
rear seat positions if the
PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF
light does not stay on whenever
the ignition is switched on.
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