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and diagnostic equipment to properly re-
place any airbag in your vehicle and
assure system effectiveness in a crash.
- Never permit salvaged or recycled air-
bags to be installed in your vehicle.
Child restraints on the front seat - some
important things to know
.. Be sure to read the important informat ion
and heed the WARNINGS for important de-
ta ils about ch ildren and Advanced Airbags
¢page 171.
Even though your vehicle is equ ipped with an
Advanced Airbag System, make certain t hat
all chi ldren, especially those 12 years and
younger, a lways ride in the back seat properly
restrained for their age and size. The airbag
on the passenger side makes the front seat a
potentially dangerous place for a chi ld to ride.
The front seat is not the safest place for a
child in a forward-facing child seat. It can be a
very dange rous place for an infant or a ch ild in
a rearward-facing seat.
The Advanced Airbag System in your veh icle
has been certified to comply with the require-
ments of United States Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 as applicable at the time
your ve hicle was manufactured .
The Standard requires the front a irbag on the
passenger side to be turned off ("sup -
pressed") if a child up to about one yea r of
age restra ined in one of the rear-facing or fo r-
ward-facing infan t restra ints listed in Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with w hich
the Advanced Airbag System in you r vehicle
was certified has been installed on the front
passenger seat. For a listing of the child re-
straints that were used to certify compliance
with the US Safety Standard
¢
page 173.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light in the in-
strument panel te lls you when the front Ad-
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vanced Airbag on the passenger side has been
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turned off by the electronic control unit.
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A irbag sys tem
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Each time you switch on the ignition , the
PAS·
SENGER AIR BAG OFF
light will come on for a
few seconds and :
- will stay on if the front passenger seat is not
occ upied,
- will stay on if t he e lect rica l capacitan ce
meas ured by the capacitive passenger de-
tection system for the front passenger seat
equa ls the combined capacitance of an in-
fant up to about one year of age and one of
the rearward-facing or forward-facing ch ild
restrai nts listed in Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 with which the Ad-
vanced Airbag System in your vehicle was
cert ified . For a listing of the chi ld restraints
t ha t were used to certify you r veh icle' s com-
pliance w ith t he U.S. Safety Standard
¢ page 173 .
- will stay on if the re is a small ch ild or child
restraint on the front passenger seat,
- will go off if t he front passenger sea t is oc-
cupied by an adult as registered by the ca-
pacitive passenger detection system
c:> page
157,
Monitoring the Advanced Air ,
bag System.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
when e lect rical capacitance registered on the
front passenger seat is equa l to or less than
the comb ined capacitance of a typical 1 year-
o ld infant and one of the rearward-facing or
forward-facing chi ld restraints listed in Feder-
al Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 with
wh ich the Advanced Airbag System in your ve-
hicle was certified .
If the total e lectr ical capacitance registered
o n the front passenger seat is more than that
of a typical 1 year -old child but less than the
weight of a small adu lt, the front airbag on
t he passenger side can deploy (the
PASSEN -
GER AIR BAG OFF
ligh t does not come on).
If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not come on, the front airbag on the passen-
ger side has not been turned off by the e lec-
tron ic cont rol uni t and ca n deploy if t he con-
trol unit senses an impact t ha t mee t s the con-
ditions st ored in its memory .
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