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Convertible
child
safety
seats
Properly used convertible child safety seats can help
protect toddlers and children over age one who weigh
between 20 and 40 lbs. (10 and 20 kg) in a crash.
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Fig. 107 Passenger
seat: smaller child in a
properly installed
forward-facing
convertible child safety
seat
When using the vehicle safety belt to install a child safety
seat, you must first activate the convertible
locking
retractor on the safety belt to prevent the child safety
seat from moving ~ page 158.
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Push the child safety seat down with your full weight to
get the safety belt really tight so that the seat cannot
move forward or sideways more than one inch (2.5 cm)
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page 158.
A toddler or child is usually too large for an infant restraint if it is
more than one year old and weighs more than 22 lbs. (10 kg).
Toddlers and children who are older than one year up to about 4
years old and weigh more than 22 lbs (10 kg) up to 40 lbs. (18 kg)
should be properly restrained in a child safety seat certified for their
size and weight=> fig . 107.
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
Safety first
dangerous place for an infant or a larger child in a rearward-facing
seat.
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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 other emergency situa-
tion.
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Children on the front seat of any car, even with Advanced
Airbags, can be seriously injured 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 Advanced Airbag System.
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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, door or roof.
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Never install a rearward facing child safety seat on the front
passenger seat unless the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light comes
on and stays on. If the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on and stay on have the airbag system inspected immedi-
ately by your authorized Audi dealer.
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Always read and heed all WARNINGS whenever using a child
restrained in a vehicle is being used => page 118, "Safety belts",
=> page 127, "Airbag system" and=> page 149, "Important
things
to know".
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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 precautions be taken:
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Make sure the forward-facing
seat has been designed and certi-
fied by its manufacturer
for use on a front seat with a passenger
front and side airbag.
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Vehicle care
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Technical data
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