Audi TT Roadster 2011 Owner's Manual page 140

138 Child Safety
The tens ion on the safety be lt for the front
passenger seat will be different for an ad ult
who is properly using the safety belt as com-
pared to the tension on the be lt when it is
used to attach a child restraint to the seat.
The sensor below the latch for the safety belt
for the front seat passenger measu res the
Child restraints and Advanced Airbags
Regard less of the ch ild restraint t hat you use,
make sure tha t it has been ce rtified to mee t
United States Fede ral Motor Vehicle Safety
Standar d s and has been certified by it s manu -
facture r fo r use with an ai rbag . If in excep-
tional circumstances you m ust use it on the
fro nt passenge r seat, caref ully read all of the
information on child safety and Advanced Air-
bags a nd heed a ll of the applicable WARN-
INGS. Make certa in that t he child restraint is
correctly recognized by the we ight-sens ing
mat inside the front passenge r seat, t hat the
fro nt passenger air bag is t ur ned off and tha t
the airbag st atus is always correc t ly signaled
by t he PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light.
Many types and mo d els of child rest ra ints
have been availab le over the years, new mo d-
e ls are int rodu ced regularly incorporat ing new
and improved designs an d older models a re
taken out of produ ction. Child restraints a re
Subpart A - Car bed child restraints
Model
Ange l Guard Ange l Ride AA24 03 FOF
Subpart B - Rear-facing child restraints
Model
Cen t ury SmartFit 4 543
Cosco Arriva 22-013PAW and base 22-999W HO
Evenflo Discovery Adjust Right 2 12
Evenflo First Choice 204
Graco Infant 8457
Graco Snugrid e
Peg Perego Primo Viaggio SIP IMUN00 US
tens ion on the belt. The input from th is sen-
sor is then used with t he weight to "decide",
whethe r the re is a child restra int with a typical
1 year-old chi ld on the front passenger seat
and whether or not the airbag must be turned
off .
not standard ized . Child rest rain t s of the same
ty pe typ ically have diffe rent weights and sizes
and differe nt 'foo t pr ints,' t he size and shape
of the bo ttom of the ch ild restra int t hat sits
on the seat, when they are insta lled on a vehi-
cle seat. These diffe rences make it virtually
impossible to certify compliance with the re-
quirements for advanced airbags with eac h
and every child restra int that has eve r been
sold in the past or will be so ld over t he course
of the useful life of your veh icle .
For t his reason, the United States National
Highway Traffic Safety Adm inistrat ion has
published a list of spec ific type, makes and
models of chi ld restraints that must be used
to ce rtify comp lian ce of the Advanced Airbag
System in your veh icle w ith t he su ppression
requirements of Fed eral Motor Vehicle Safe ty
Stan dard 208. These chi ld res t raints are:
Manufactured on or after
September 2 5, 2 0 07
Manufactured on or after
December 1, 19 9 9
September 25, 2 0 07
December 1, 1999
Decembe r 1, 1999
December 1, 1999
September 25, 2 0 07
September 25, 2007