Audi Q5 2011 Owner's Manual page 186

184 Child S af et y
&
WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the
wrong ch ild safety seat or improperly in-
stall ing a child restraint increases the risk
of serious personal injury and death in a
crash .
- Never install rear-facing ch ild safety
seats or infant carriers on the front pas-
senger seat - even with an Advanced Air-
bag System. A child will be seriously in-
jured and can be killed when the inflat-
ing airbag hits the child safety seat or in-
fant carrier with great force and smashes
the ch ild safety seat and chi ld against
the backrest, center armrest, door or
roof
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page 157, Child restraints on the
front seat - some important things to
know.
- Always install rear-facing child safety
seats or infant carriers on the rear seat.
- Never install a rear-facing child restraint
in the forward-facing direction. Such re-
st raints are des igned for the special
needs of infants and very small children
and cannot protect them proper ly if the
seat is forward-fac ing.
- If you must install a rea rward facing
child safety seat on the front passenge r
seat because of exceptional circumstan-
ces and the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on and stay on, im-
mediately install the rear-facing child
safety seat in a rear seating position and
have t he a irbag system inspected by your
Audi dealer.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS
whenever using a child restrained in ave-
hicle is being used
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page 148, Safety
belts,
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page 156, Airbag system
and
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page 178, Important things to know.
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. (9
and 18 kg) in a crash.
Fig. 187 Schemat ic overview: installat ion of the at -
tac hments appl icable to a LATCH seat
Fig. 188 Schema tic overview: installat ion of th e seat
using the vehicle's safety belt system
.,. When us ing the vehicle safety belt to ins t all
a child safety seat, you must first activate
the convertib le locking feature on the safety
be lt to prevent the chi ld safety seat from
moving
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page 187
or install the seat using
the LATCH attachments.
.,. Push the ch ild safety seat down with your
full weight to get the safety belt really tight
so that the seat cannot move forward or
sideways mo re than one inch (2.5 cm)
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page 187 .
.,. If the child safety seat is equipped wit h a
tether strap, attach it to the tethe r anchors
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A toddler or chi ld is usua lly too large for an in-
fant restraint if it is more than one year old
and weighs more than 20 lbs. (9 kg) .
Toddlers and childre n who a re older than one
year up to abou t 4 years old and weigh more ..,.