Side Air Bags (Side Bag - Window Bag) - Fiat Bravo Owner's Handbook Manual

MANUAL DEACTIVATION
OF PASSENGER'S FRONT
AIR BAG AND SIDE BAG
Should it be absolutely necessary to car-
ry a child on the front seat, the passenger's
front air bag and the side bag (where pro-
vided) can be deactivated.
The instrument panel warning light
stay on glowing steadily until reactivating
passenger's air bag.
WARNING
To deactivate the passen-
ger's front air bag and the
side bag (for versions/markets, where
provided), refer to paragraphs "Mul-
tifunction display" and "Reconfig-
urable multifunction display" in sec-
tion "Dashboard and controls".
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SIDE AIR BAGS
(Side bag -
Window bag)
The car is fitted with front side bags for
driver and passenger (where provided) for
protecting the chest and window bags
"
(where provided) for protecting front and
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rear passengers' head.
Side bags protect car occupants from side
crashes of medium-high severity, by plac-
ing the cushion between the occupant and
the internal parts of the side structure of
the car.
Non-activation of side bags in other types
of collisions (front collisions, rear shunts,
roll-overs, etc...) is not a system malfunc-
tion.
In case of side crash, an electronic control
unit, when required triggers the inflation
of the cushion. The cushion immediately
inflates, placing itself as a protection, be-
tween the occupant's body and the struc-
ture that could cause injuries. Immediate-
ly after, the cushion deflates.
Side bags are not a replacement of but
complementary to the belts, which you
are recommended to always wear, as
specified by law in Europe and most non-
European countries.
fig. 18
SIDE BAGS
(for versions/markets, where provided)
They consist of two types of instant infla-
tion cushions and are housed in the back
rests of the front seats fig. 18. The task
of the side air bags is to increase protec-
tion of the occupants' chest in the event
of a side crash of medium-high severity.
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