Kia Sorento Owner's Manual page 88

Safety features of your vehicle
Driver's front air bag (3)
A fully inflated air bag, in combina-
tion with a properly worn seat belt,
slows the driver's or the passenger's
forward motion, reducing the risk of
head and chest injury.
After complete inflation, the air bag
immediately starts
enabling the driver to maintain for-
ward visibility and the ability to steer
or operate other controls.
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Passenger's front air bag (if equipped)
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WARNING
• Do not install or place any
accessories (drink holder,
cassette holder, sticker, etc.)
on the front passenger's
panel above the glove box in a
vehicle with a passenger's air
deflating,
bag. Such
become dangerous projec-
tiles and cause injury if the
passenger's air bag inflates.
• When installing a container of
liquid air freshener inside the
vehicle, do not place it near
the instrument cluster nor on
the instrument panel surface.
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It may become a dangerous
projectile and cause injury if
the
inflates.
WARNING
• If an air bag deploys, there
may be a loud noise followed
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by a fine dust released in the
vehicle. These conditions are
normal and are not hazardous
- the air bags are packed in this
fine powder. The dust generat-
ed during air bag deployment
may cause skin or eye irrita-
tion as well as aggravate asth-
ma for some persons. Always
objects may
wash all exposed skin areas
thoroughly
water and mild soap after an
accident in which the air bags
were deployed.
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passenger's air bag
with lukewarm
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