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Airb a g sys t e m
Advanced front airbag system
Y our veh icle is equippe d with a fro nt Advanced
Airbag System in com pliance with United
States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
208 as applicab le at the time your vehicle was
manufactured.
The front Advanced Airbag Syst em supp le-
ments the safety belts to provide addit ional
protection for the driver's and front passeng-
er's heads and upper bodies in frontal crashes.
The airbags inflate only in fronta l impacts
when the vehicle dece lerat ion 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 over -
all occupant restraint system in your veh icle.
Always remember that the airbag system can
only help to protect you, if you are s itting up-
right, wear ing you r safety belt and wearing it
properly. This is why you and your passenge rs
must always be properly restra ined, not just
beca use the law requires you to be.
The Advanced Airbag System in your veh icle
has been cert ified to meet the "low risk" re-
qu irements for 3 and 6 year-o ld childre n on
the passenger side and very small adu lt s on
the dr iver side. The low risk deployment crit e -
ria are intended to he lp red uce the risk of in-
jury through interaction with the front airbag
that can occ ur, for example, by be ing too
close to the steer ing wheel and instrument
panel when the airbag inflates.
In addition, the system has been certif ied to
comp ly with the "suppression" requirements
of the Safety Standard, to turn off the front
a irbag for infants 12 months old and younger
who are restra ined on the front passenger
seat in child restra ints that are listed in the
Standard
~
page 138, Child restraints and
Advan ced Airbags.
"Suppression" requires the front airbag on the
passenger side to be tur ned off if:
- a ch ild up to about one year of age is re-
stra ined on the front passenger seat in one
of the rear -facing or forwa rd-facing infant
restraints listed in Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 with which the Ad-
vanced Airbag System in your veh icle was
cert ified. For a listing of the child restraints
that were used to certify your vehicle's com-
pliance with the US Safety Standard
~page 138,
- weight less than a threshold level stored in
the control unit is detected on the front pas-
senger seat .
When a person is detected on the front pas-
senger seat, weighing more than the total
we ight of a chi ld that is about 1 year old re-
stra ined in one of the rear-facing or forward-
facing infa nt restraints (listed in Fede ral Mo-
tor Vehicle Safety Standa rd 208 w it h which
t he Advan ced Airbag Syst em in your vehicle
was certif ied), the front air bag on the passen-
ger side may or may not deploy .
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
whe n t he elec t ronic cont rol unit det ects a to-
ta l we ight on t he fron t passenger seat that re-
quires the front airbag to be t urned off. If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not
come on, the front a irbag on the passenger
s ide has not been t urned off by the contro l
unit and ca n dep loy if the control unit senses
an impact that meets the cond itions 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 we ight of a small adult, the
front a irbag on the passenger side may dep loy
(the
PASSENG ER AIR BAG OFF
light does not
come on).
For example, the airbag may deploy
if:
- a small ch ild that is heav ier than a typical 1
year-old ch ild is on the front passenger seat
(regard less of whether the child is in one of
the child safe ty seats listed ~ page 138),
- 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 panel will come on and stay
on.
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