Kia Sorento Owner's Manual page 98

Safety features of your vehicle
WARNING
• Do not hit or allow any objects
to impact the locations where
air bag or sensors are installed.
This may cause unexpected
air bag deployment, which
could result in serious per-
sonal injury or death.
• If the installation location or
angle of the sensors is altered
in any way, the air bags may
deploy when they should not
or they may not deploy when
they should, causing severe
injury or death.
Therefore, do not try to per-
form maintenance
around the air bag sensors.
We recommend that the sys-
tem be serviced by an autho-
rised Kia dealer.
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• Problems may arise if the sen-
sor installation angles are
changed due to the deforma-
tion of the front bumper, body,
B pillar or front door and C pil-
lars where side collision sen-
sors are installed. We recom-
mend that the system be serv-
iced by an authorised Kia
dealer.
• Your vehicle
designed to absorb impact
and deploy the air bag(s) in
certain collisions.
bumper guards or replacing a
bumper with
on or
parts may adversely affect
your vehicles collision and air
bag deployment performance.
WARNING
If your vehicle is equipped with
side and curtain air bag, set the
ignition switch to OFF or ACC
position when the vehicle is
being towed.
The side and curtain air bag
may deploy when the ignitions
is ON, and the rollover sensor
detects the situation as a
has been
rollover.
Installing
non-genuine
- For Europe &
Australia