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Airbag
syst em
BAG OFF
light comes on and stays on to te ll
you when the front Advanced Airbag on the
passenger side has been turned off
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page 146, Child restraints on the front seat
- some important things to know.
A
WARNING
To reduce the risk of injury when a n airbag
inflates, always wear safety belts properly.
- If you are unrestrained,
lean ing forward,
sitting sideways or out of position in any
way, your risk of injury is much higher.
- You will also receive serious injuries and
cou ld even be killed if you are up against
the a irbag or too close to it when it in-
flates - even with an Advanced Airbag
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More important things to know about
front airbags
Fig. 155 Inflated front airbags
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Safety belts are important to help keep front
seat occupants in the proper seated pos ition
so that airbags can unfo ld properly and pro-
vide supp lemental protection in a frontal col-
lision.
The front a irbags are designed to provide ad-
d itiona l protect ion for the chest and face of
the driver and the front seat passenger when :
- safety belts are worn properly,
- the seats have been posit ioned so that the
occupant is proper ly seated as far as possi-
ble from the a irbag,
- and the head restraints have been properly
adjusted .
Because airbags inflate in the blink of an eye
with great force, things you have on your lap
or have placed on the seat cou ld become dan -
gerous projecti les, and be pushed into you if
the a irbag inf lates.
When an airbag deploys, fine dust is released.
This is norma l and is not caused by a fire in
the vehicle . This dust is made up mostly of a
powder used to lubricate the airbags as they
deploy. It could irritate skin .
It is important to remembe r that while the
supplementa l airbag system is designed to re-
duce the likelihood of serious injur ies, other
injur ies, for example swelling, bruising and
minor abrasions, can also happen when air-
bags inflate . Airbags do not protect the arms
or the lower parts of the body. Front a irbags
only supp lement the three point safety belts
in some fronta l collisions in wh ich the vehicle
deceleration is high enough to deploy the air-
bags .
Front airbags will not deploy:
- if the ignition is sw itched off whe n a crash
occurs,
- in side collisions,
- in rear-end collisions,
- in rollovers,
- when the crash deceleration measured by
the airbag system is less than the minimum
threshold needed for a irbag deployment as
reg istered by the electronic control unit .
The front passenger airbag will also not
deploy:
- when the front passenger seat is not occu-
pied,
- when the weight on the front passenger
seat as sensed by the Advanced Airbag Sys-
tem indicates that the front a irbag on the
passenger side has to be turned off by the
electronic control un it (the
PASSENGER AI R
BAG OFF
light comes on and stays on).
A
WARNING
Sitting in the wrong pos ition can increase
the risk of se rious injury in crashes.
- To reduce the risk of injury whe n the air-
bags inflate, the drive r and passengers
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