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Toddlers and children who are older than one
year up to about 4 years o ld and weigh mor e than
20 lbs (9 kg) up to 40 lbs. (18 kg) must always be
properly restrained in a child safety seat certified
for their size and weight¢
fig. 175
and
¢ fig. 176 .
The airbag on the passenger side makes the front
seat a potentially dangerous place for a child to
ride . The front sea t is not the safest place for a
child in a forward-facing child safety seat .
It
is a
very dangerous place for an infa nt or a larger
child in a rearward-facing seat .
A
WARNING
Not using a child safety seat , using the wrong
child safety seat or improperly installing a
child restraint increases the risk of serious
personal injury and death in a collision or oth -
er emergency situation.
- Children on the front seat of any car, even
with Advanced Airbags, can be seriously in-
jured or even killed when an airbag inf lates.
A ch ild in a rearward-facing child safety seat
installed on the front passenger seat will be
seriously injured and can be killed if the
front airbag inflates - even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System .
- The inflating a irbag w ill hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the ch ild safety seat and chi ld
against the bac krest, center arm rest , door
or roof.
- Always install rear-facing child safety seats
on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearward fac ing ch ild
safety seat on the front passenger seat be-
cause of exceptiona l circumstances and the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on and stay on, immed iate ly install
the rear-facing child safety seat in a rear
seating position and have the airbag system
inspected by your Audi dealer.
- The rear side of the child safety seat should
be pos it ioned as close as poss ible to the
backrest on the vehicle seat. Adjust the rear
seat head restraint if it is diff icult to install
the ch ild seat with the head restraint in
Ch ild safety
place
¢
page 132.
Driving with head re-
stra ints that are not properly adjusted in-
creases the risk of serious or fatal neck in-
jury dramat ically .
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever us ing a child restrained in a vehicle is
be ing used
c>
page 138, Safety belts,
¢
page 146, Airbag system
and
¢
page 168, Important information.
A
WARNING
If exceptional circumstances req uire the use
of a forward-facing ch ild restraint on the
front passenger's seat, the child 's safety and
well -being req uire that the following special
precautions be taken:
- Make sure the forward-fac ing seat has been
designed and certified by its manufacturer
for use on a front seat with a passenger
front and side airbag.
- Always follow the manufacturer's
instr uc-
tions provided with the child safety seat or
infant carrier.
- Always move the front passenger seat into
the rearmost pos ition of the passenger
seat's fore and aft adjustment
range, and as
far away from the airbag as possib le before
installing the ch ild restraint .
- Always make sure that nothing prevents the
front passenger's seat from being moved to
the rearmost pos ition in its fore and aft ad-
justment range .
- Always make sure the backrest is in an up -
right position .
- Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignit ion is switched on.
- If the light does not stay on, perform the
checks ¢
page 156, Monitoring the Ad-
vanced Airbag System .
-Take the child restra int off the front passen -
ger seat and install it prope rly at one of the
rear seat positions if the PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF light does not stay on whenever
the ignition is switched on.
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