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01 Safety
Airbags
01
Airbag system
SRS system, left-hand drive.
The system consists of airbags and sensors. A
sufficiently violent collision trips the sensors
and the airbag(s) are inflated with hot gas. To
cushion the impact, the airbag deflates when
compressed. When this occurs, smoke
escapes into the car. This is completely nor-
mal. The entire process, including inflation and
deflation of the airbag, takes place within
tenths of a second.
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SRS system, right-hand drive
WARNING
Volvo recommends that you contact an
authorised Volvo workshop for repair.
Defective work in the airbag system could
cause malfunction and result in serious per-
sonal injury.
NOTE
The sensors react differently depending on
the course of the collision and whether the
seatbelts on the driver's side and passenger
side are in use.
It is therefore possible that only one (or
none) of the airbags may inflate in a colli-
sion. The SRS system senses the force of
the collision on the car and adapts accord-
ingly so that one or more airbags is
deployed.
The airbags have a function whereby their
capacities are adapted to the collision force
to which the car is subjected.
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