Front Airbags - Volvo S40 Owner's Manual

2007 Volvo S40
The passenger's side front airbag is folded behind a panel located above the glove compartment.
WARNING
The airbags in the vehicle are designed to be a SUPPLEMENT to-not a replacement for-the three-
point seat belts. For maximum protection, wear seat belts at all times. Be aware that no system can
prevent all possible injuries that may occur in an accident.
Never drive a vehicle with a steering wheel-mounted airbag with your hands on the steering wheel
pad/airbag housing.
The front airbags are designed to help prevent serious injury. Deployment occurs very quickly and
with considerable force. During normal deployment and depending on variables such as seating
position, one may experience abrasions, bruises, swellings, or other injuries as a result from deployment
of one or both of the airbags.
When installing any accessory equipment, make sure that the front airbag system is not damaged.
Any interference in the system could cause malfunction.
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01 Safety

Front airbags

Front airbag deployment
The front airbags are designed to deploy during certain frontal or front-angular collisions, impacts, or
decelerations, depending on the crash severity, angle, speed and object impacted. The airbags may also
deploy in certain non-frontal collisions where rapid deceleration occurs.
The SRS sensors, which trigger the front airbags, are designed to react to both the impact of the
collision and the inertial forces generated by it, and to determine if the intensity of the collision is
sufficient for the seat belt tensioners and/or airbags to be deployed.
However, not all frontal collisions activate the front airbags.
If the collision involves a nonrigid object (e.g., a snow drift or bush), or a rigid, fixed object at a low
speed, the front airbags will not necessarily deploy.
Front airbags do not normally deploy in a side impact collision, in a collision from the rear or in a
rollover situation.
The amount of damage to the bodywork does not reliably indicate if the airbags should have deployed
or not.
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