Front Airbags - Fiat Ducato Owner's Manual

FRONT AIRBAGS

The vehicle is provided with front airbags for the driver
and the passenger.
The front driver/passenger air bags have been designed to
protect the occupants in the event of head-on crashes of
medium-high severity, by placing the cushion between the
occupant and the steering wheel or dashboard.
Front air bags are designed to protect car's occupants in
head-on crashes and therefore non-activation in other
types of collisions (side collisions, rear shunts, roll-overs,
etc.) is not a system malfunction.
An electronic control unit causes the bag to inflate in the
event of a head-on crash. The bag will inflate instantaneous-
ly placing itself between the front occupant's body and the
structures which could cause injury. It will deflate immedi-
ately afterwards.
Driver and passenger front airbags are not a replacement
of but complementary to the belts, which you are recom-
mended to always wear, as specified by law in Europe and
most non-European countries.
The volume of front air bags at max. inflation fills most of
the space between the steering wheel and the driver and
between the dashboard and the passenger.
In the event of an impact, someone not wearing a seat belt
will move forward and come into contact with the bag
which is still in the opening stage. The protection offered
by the bag is reduced in such a case.
The front air bags may not be activated in the following sit-
uations:
❒ during collisions against highly deformable objects that
do not affect the vehicle front surface (e.g. bumper col-
lision against guard rail, heaps of gravel, etc.);
❒ jamming of the vehicle underneath other vehicles or
protective barriers (e.g. underneath a truck or a guard
rail); in this case, the bags would offer no additional pro-
tection with respect to the seat belt and their deploy-
ment is unnecessary. No deployment in such cases is
consequently not the sign of a fault.
WARNING
Do not apply stickers or other objects on
the steering wheel, passenger side airbag
cover or side upholstery on roof. Do not place ob-
jects on the passenger side dashboard because
these could interfere with the correct opening of
the airbag (e.g. mobile phones) and cause severe
injury to occupants.
The airbags are not deployed in the event of collisions of
low severity (for which the withholding action of the seat
belts is sufficient). For this reason, the seat belt must be
worn at all times. In the case of side collisions, the seat
belts hold occupants in the correct position and prevent
being thrown out of the car by a very violent collision.
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