Airbag System; Airbag System Airbag System - Chevrolet Captiva Owner's Manual

2-22 Seats and Restraints

AIRBAG SYSTEM

AIRBAG SYSTEM
The vehicle has the following airbags:
Ÿ A frontal airbag for the driver.
Ÿ A frontal airbag for the outboard
front passenger.
The vehicle may have the following
airbags:
Ÿ A seat-mounted side impact airbag
for the driver.
Ÿ A seat-mounted side impact airbag
for the outboard front passenger.
A roof-rail airbag for the driver and
Ÿ
the passenger seated directly behind
the driver.
Ÿ A roof-rail airbag for the outboard
front passenger and the passenger
seated directly behind the outboard
front passenger.
All of the airbags in the vehicle will
have the word AIRBAG embossed in
the trim or on an attached label near the
deployment opening.
For frontal airbags, the word AIRBAG
will appear on the middle part of the
steering wheel for the driver and on the
instrument panel for the outboard front
passenger.
With seat-mounted side impact airbags,
the word AIRBAG will appear on the
side of the seatback closest to the door.
With roof-rail airbags, the word AIRBAG
will appear along the trim.
Warning
Be sure that cargo is not near an
airbag. In a crash, an inflating airbag
might force that object toward a
person. This could cause severe
injury or even death. Secure objects
away from the area in which an
airbag would inflate. For more
information, see Where Are the
Airbags? on page 2-24 and Vehicle
Load Limits on page 8-9.
Airbags are designed to supplement the
protection provided by safety belts.
Even though today's airbags are also
designed to help reduce the risk of
injury from the force of an inflating
bag, all airbags must inflate very
quickly to do their job.
Here are the most important things to
know about the airbag system:
Warning
You can be severely injured or killed
in a crash if you are not wearing your
safety belt, even with airbags.
Airbags are designed to work with
safety belts, not replace them. Also,
airbags are not designed to inflate in
every crash. In some crashes safety
belts are the only restraint. See When
Should an Airbag Inflate? on page
2-25.
Wearing your safety belt during a
crash helps reduce the chance of
hitting things inside the vehicle or
being ejected from it. Airbags are
"supplemental restraints" to the
safety belts. Everyone in the vehicle
should wear a safety belt properly,
whether or not there is an airbag for
that person.