1995 CHEVROLET CAMARO Owners Manual

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A: The belt is buckled in the wrong place.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine What’s wrong with this?
A: The shoulder belt is worn under the arm. It should
be
worn over the shoulder at all times.
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A: The belt is twisted across the body.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine To unlatch the belt, just push the button on the buckle.
The belt should
go back out of the way.
Before you close the door, be sure the belt is
out of the
way.
If you slam the door on it, you can damage both the
belt and your vehicle.
Supplemental Inflatable Restraint
System
(SIR)
This part explains the Supplemental Inflatable Restraint
(SIR), or air bag, system.
Your Chevrolet has
two air bags -- one air bag for the
driver and another air bag for the right front passenger.
Here are the most important things to know about the air
bag system:
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine AIR
BAG
There is an air bag readiness light on the instrument
panel, which shows “AIR
BAG’ on it. The system
checks the air bag’s electrical
system for malfunctions.
The light tells
you if there is an electrical problem. See
“Air Bag Readiness Light” in
the Index for more
information.
How the Air Bag System Works
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine Where is the air bag?
The driver’s air bag is in the middle of the steering
wheel. The right front passenger’s air bag is in the
instrument panel on the passenger’s side.
When should an air bag inflate?
The air bag is designed to inflate in moderate to severe
frontal or near-frontal crashes. The air bag will inflate
only
if the impact speed is above the system’s designed
“threshold level.”
If your vehicle goes straight into a
wall that doesn’t move
or deform, the threshold level is
about 9 to 15 mph ( 14 to 24 km/h). The threshold level
can vary, however, with specific vehicle design,
so that
it can be somewhat above or below this range. If your
vehicle strikes something that will move or deform, such
as a parked car, the threshold level will be higher. The
air bag
is not designed to inflate in rollovers, side
impacts, or rear impacts, because inflation would not
help the occupant.
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Downloaded from www.Manualslib.com manuals search engine It is possible that in a crash only one of the two air bags
in your vehicle will deploy. This is rare, but can happen
in
a crash just severe enough to make an air bag inflate.
In any particular crash, no one can say whether an air
bag should
have inflated simply because of the damage
to
a vehicle or because of what the repair costs were.
Inflation
is determined by the angle of the impact and
the vehicle’s deceleration. Vehicle damage is only one
indication of this.
What makes an air bag inflate?
In a frontal or near-frontal impact of sufficient severity,
the air bag sensing system detects that the vehicle is
suddenly stopping as a result of
a crash. The sensing
system triggers
a chemical reaction of the sodium azide
sealed in the inflator. The reaction produces nitrogen
gas, which inflates the air bag. The inflator, air bag, and
related hardware are
all part of the air bag modules
packed inside the steering wheel and in the instrument
panel in front
of the right front passenger.
How does an air bag restrain?
In moderate to severe frontal or near-frontal collisions,
even belted occupants can contact the steering wheel
or
the instrument panel. The air bag supplements the
protection provided by
safety belts. Air bags distribute
the force
of the impact more evenly over the occupant’s
upper body, stopping the occupant more gradually. But
air bags would not help you in many types of collisions,
including rollovers and rear and side impacts, primarily
because an occupant’s motion is not toward the air bag.
Air bags should never be regarded as anything more
than a supplement to safety belts, and then only in
moderate to severe frontal or near-frontal collisions.
What will you see after an air bag inflates?
After the air bag inflates, it quickly deflates. This occurs
so quickly that some people may not even realize the air
bag inflated. Some components of the air bag module in
the steering wheel hub for the driver’s air bag, or the
instrument panel for the right front passenger’s bag, will
be hot for a short time, but the
part of the bag that comes
into contact with you will not be hot to the touch. There
will be some smoke and dust coming from vents in the
deflated air bags. Air bag inflation will not prevent the
driver from seeing or from being able to steer the
vehicle, nor
will it stop people from leaving the vehicle.
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