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exceptional circumstances and the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on and stay on, immed iately install
the rear-fac ing ch ild safety seat in a rear
seating pos it ion and have the airbag system
inspected immediately by your Audi dealer .
A
WARNING
If, in except io nal circumstances, you must in-
stall a forward-facing chi ld restraint on the
front passenger's seat:
- Always make sure the forward-fac ing seat
has been designed and ce rtified by its man-
ufact urer fo r use on a front seat with a pas-
senger front and side airbag .
- Always follow the manufact urer's instruc-
tions prov ided with the ch ild safety seat or
carrier.
- 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 possib le before installing the child
restraint. The backrest must be adjusted to
an upr ight position.
- Always make sure that the PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF light comes on and stays on all the
t ime whenever the ignition is switched on.
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Tips
Always replace chi ld restraints that were in-
stalled in a vehicle dur ing a crash . Damage to
a child restraint that is not visible could cause
it to fail in another collision situation.
Advanced front airbag system and children
Your veh icle is equipped with a front "Advanced
Airbag System " in compliance w ith United States
Federa l Moto r Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
208, as well as Canada Motor Vehicle Safe ty
Stand a rd (CMVSS) 208 as appli cable at the t ime
your vehicle was manufactured .
The Advanced Airbag system in your vehicle has
been ce rtified to meet the "low-risk " requ ire-
ments for 3- and 6-year old children on t he pas-
senger side and small adults on the driver side .
The low risk deployment criteria are intended to
Ch ild safety
reduce the risk of injury through interaction with
the airbag that can occur, for example, by being
too close to the steering wheel and instr ument
panel when the airbag inflates. In addition, the
system has been cert ified to comply with the
"suppression" requirements of the Safety Stand -
ard, to turn off the front airbag for infants up to
12 months who are restrained on the front pas-
senger seat in child rest raints that are list ed in
the St anda rd .
Even thoug h your veh icle is equipped with an Ad-
vanced Airbag system, all ch ildren, especially
those 12 yea rs and younger, sho uld a lways ride
in the back seat properly restra ined for their age
and size . The airbag on the passenger side makes
the front seat a potentia lly dangerous place for a
child to ride. The front seat is not the safest place
for a ch ild in a forward-fac ing ch ild safety seat. It
can be a very dangerous place for an infant or a
larger ch ild in a rearward-facing seat .
Advanced Airbags and the weight -sensing
mat in the front seat
The Advanced Airbag System in you r vehicle de-
tects the presence of a n infan t or child in a ch ild
restra int on the front passenger seat using the
weight-sensing
mat in the seat cushion and the
sensor below the safety belt latch on the front
passenger seat that measures the tension on the
safety belt.
The weight-sensing
mat measures total weight
of the child and the chi ld safety seat and a child
blanket on the front passenger seat. The weight
on the front passenger seat is related to the de-
s ign of the child restra int and its "footprint" , the
size and shape of the bottom of the child re-
straint as it s its on the seat. The weight of a chi ld
restra int and its "footprint " vary for different
kinds of child restra ints and for the different
models of the same kind of child rest raint of -
fered by child restraint manufacturers.
The weight ranges for the individ ual types,
makes and mode ls of chi ld restrain t s that the
NHTSA has spec ified in the Safety Standard to-
gether with the weight ranges of typical infants
and typical 1 year-old chi ld have been stored in
.,.
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