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WARNING
A
child
in
a rearward-facing child seat
instal-
led on the front passenger seat will be seri-
ously injured and can be killed if the front air-
bag inflates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System.
-Although
the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle
is
designed to turn off the front
airbag
when a
rearward-facing
child re-
straint has
been
installed on the front pas-
senger seat, nobody can absolutely guaran-
tee that deployment is impossible in all con-
ceivable situations that may
happen
during
the useful life of your vehicle.
-
The inflating airbag will hit the child seat or
infant carrier with great force and will
smash the child seat and child against the
backrest, center armrest, door, or roof.
-Always install rearward-facing child re-
straints on the rear seat.
-
If you must install a rearward facing child
seat on the front passenger seat because of
exceptional circumstances and the
PASSEN-
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on
and stay on, immediately
install the rear-
facing child seat in a rear seating position
and have
the
airbag system inspected by
your Audi dealer.
A
WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must in-
stall
a forward-facing
child restraint on
the
front passenger's seat:
-
Always make sure
the forward-facing
seat
has been designed and certified by its man-
ufacturer for
use
on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side airbag.
- Never put the forward-facing
child restraint
up against or very near the instrument pan-
el.
-
Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment range, as far away from the air-
bag as possible, before
installing
the for-
ward-facing child restraint. The backrest
must be adjusted to an upright position.
Airbag
system
-
Always make sure that there is nothing on
the front passenger seat that will cause the
capacitive passenger detection system in
the seat to signal to the Airbag System that
the seat is occupied by a person when it is
not, or to signal that it is occupied by some-
one who is
heavier
than the person actually
sitting on the seat.
The
presence
of
addi-
tional objects
could cause
the passenger
front airbag
to
be
turned
on when
it
should
be off, or could cause the airbag to work in a
way that is different from the way it would
have worked without the object on the seat.
-
Make sure that the
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF
light
comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignition is switched on.
Advanced Airbag System components
The front passenger seat in your vehicle has a
lot
of very
important
parts of the Advanced Airbag
System in it
.
These parts include the capacitive
passenger detection system, wiring, brackets,
and more. The control
unit monitors
the system
on
the
front passenger seat when the
ignition is
switched on and turns the airbag indicator light
on when a malfunction in the one of the system
components is detected
¢
page 196.
Because
the front passenger seat contains important
parts of the Advanced Airbag System, you must
take care to prevent it from being damaged.
Damage to the seat may prevent the Advanced
Airbag System for
the
front passenger seat from
doing
its
job
in
a crash.
The front Advanced Airbag System consists
of the following:
-
Crash sensors
in
the front of the vehicle
that
measure vehicle acceleration/deceleration
to
provide
information
to the Advanced Airbag
System about
the
severity of the crash.
-
An electronic control
unit,
with
integrated
crash sensors for front and side impacts.
The
control unit "decides" whether
to fire
the front
airbags based on the information received from
the crash sensors. The control unit also "de-
cides" whether the safety belt pretensioners
should be activated.
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