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- Page 1 SEAT BELTS AND AIRBAGS...
- Page 2 Competence in Safety. A pioneer in automotive safety. Mercedes-Benz has been passionate about making cars – each one even better than the last – from day one. Since the first models invented by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, cars have become not only faster but also more comfortable and considerably safer. And...
- Page 3 Consequently, the air bag and related seat belt emergency tensioning device systems in Mercedes-Benz vehicles are called a Supplemental Restraint System (“SRS”). While the seat belts and air bags in...
- Page 4 Seat belt height adjustment ETD in installation position If the seat belt is also equipped with a seat belt force limiter, the limiter, when activated, helps to reduce the peak force exerted by the seat belt on the occupant. The seat belt force limiter is also designed to work with a deploying front air bag by providing more even distribution of occupant restraining forces between the seat belt and air bag.
- Page 5 Supplemental Restraint Systems. What happens when an air bag is deployed? During deployment, an air bag inflates within a small fraction of a second during the actual collision in order to provide the occupant with additional protection beyond that afforded by the seat belt. As inflation must be very rapid to afford protection in the very short accident sequence, deployment results with a relatively loud noise.
- Page 6 Since air bags inflate with considerable speed and force, you can be injured by an air bag, especially if you are unbelted, out of position or too close to a deploying air bag. With respect to front air bags, the proper seating position is as far away as possible from the air bag (consistent with proper operation of vehicle controls for the driver) and with the occupant’s back against the seat backrest, which should be in a nearly upright position.
- Page 7 Front Supplemental Restraint System deployment logic. If the seat belt is worn by a front seat occupant, only the emergency tensioning device for that seat belt is deployed in an impact generating a frontal longitudinal deceleration rate meeting the system’s first deployment threshold. The respective front air bag is only deployed in addition to the ETD if a second, higher deployment threshold is met.
- Page 8 A front air bag will not be deployed in a lateral rollover unless the rollover also generates a longitudinal deceleration rate meeting the system’s deployment threshold sensed early in the collision. Special features of dual-stage front air bags. If the vehicle is equipped with dual-stage front air bags, the front air bag is initially inflated with a single inflator when a first activation threshold is reached.
- Page 9 the occupant’s size category, which could cause the system to activate the passenger front air bag even though it should have been deactivated, or vice versa. Use the PASS AIR BAG OFF indicator lamp to determine whether the passenger front air bag is deactivated.
- Page 10 Window curtain air bags. Your Mercedes-Benz vehicle may be equipped with window curtain air bags (as optional or standard equipment, typically in sedans or coupes but not in convertibles) that are designed to help increase head protection for the occupant sitting on the impacted side of the vehicle where the system’s deployment threshold has been met.
- Page 11 This brochure describes features generally found in new Mercedes-Benz vehicles at the time this brochure was produced. Not all of the systems described are available for all Mercedes-Benz models. In addition, some of the safety systems described are not part of the standard equipment for certain Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Detailed information showing which of the systems described are standard equipment, optional equipment, or are available for your particular Mercedes-Benz passenger car model can be obtained from current model series brochures.
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