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I GENERAL ILLUSTRATION
General illustration 0 0 0. • • • 8
Warning and indicator lights 10
I SAFETY
FIRST
W elcome ... 0 0 0 •• •• 13
Safety first 0 0
• 0 • 0 0 0 0 • 0 •
13
Safety belts
• . . 0 0 0 • 0 0
14
Airbag system 0 ••••••• 0 0 • • • • • • • 25
Child safety ........ 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44
I CONTROLS AND EQUIPMENT
Keys 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 •••• ••••• 0 0 • • 0
56
Power locks 0 0 0 0
Power windows
Mirrors 0 •• 0 0 0 •••
Head restraints
Front seats 0 0 0 •
0.- . 0 0 0 • • 59
69
• •• - •••• 0 ••• 0 72
75
•• 0 •• 0 76
Memory for front seats , .... 0 •• 0 81
Center armrest 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 •••••• 0 85 Rear
seats 0 0 •• 0 •• 0 • • • • • •
86
Luggage compartment , 0 0 88
Rear facing child seat bench 0 0 0 0 0 92
Ski sack 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.
96
Adjustable steering column
(tilt and telescopic) 0 0 0 0 • 0 0
98
Pedals 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 , 1 02
Parking brake lever 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 •• 0 1 03
5-speed automatic transmission
(Trptronic ®) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0. 0 • 104
Acoustic park assist
112
Ignition switch 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 13
Starting procedures . 0 • • 114
Stopping engine 0 0 0 0 0 0 • • • 115
Instrument cluster 0 0 0 0 0 0 116
Service Interval Display
121
Warning I Indic ator lights 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 122
On Board Diagnostic system 0 0 0 128
Driver information system 0 • 0 • • • 130
Menu display 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 131
Rear lid I door open indicator 0 0 0 137
Outside air temp erature 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 137 Radio
frequency display 13
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Auto-Check system 0 0 0 o 0 138
Speed warning . 0 0 0 • 0 0 • • • • 0 • 0 0 144
Tr ip computer 0 0 0 0 0 0 •• 0
146
Switches 0 • 0 •• 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 148
Ride height adjustment
(4 Level Air Suspension) 0
153
Turn signals,
headlight dimmer switch lever 0 0 156
Cruise control 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • • 158
Wiper and washer system 0 ••• 0 0 150
Climate controls 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 152
Power roof 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 • • • • • • 168
Int erior lights, reading lights 171
Luggage compartment light 0 0 0 0 172
Audi Homelink ®
Uni versal Transmitter . 0 0 • • • •
173
Sun visors 00 00 00 00 ... • .. •
177
Sun shade 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 •• , • • • ••• 0 0 177
Glo ve compartment
Coat hooks
Ashtray 178
179
180
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Welcome Dear Audi Owner,
This chapter contains important informa
tion, tips and suggestions on occupant safe
ty.
We've prepared this chapter in order to
summarize what you need to know about
such topics as safety belts, airbags, child
safety, seats for children and infants.
Please make certain that you follow
the suggestions and warnings given
- it's in your own interest and in the
interest of all your passengers.
However, please note, that impor
tant safety information regarding
your vehicle and its operation will
also be found in all other chapters of
this Owner's Manual.
Remember -safety first! Safety
first
Yo ur safety and the safety of your passen
gers shouldn't be left to chance. Advances
in technology have made a variety of fea
tures available to help reduce the risk of in
jur y in an accident. The following is a listing
of just a few of the safety features in your
Audi:
sophisticated safety belts with tension
ers
optimized safety belt geometry through
safety belt ancho rages on front seats,
safety belt height adjustors front seats,
lateral belt adjustment on outer rear
seats,
safety belt guide for the center rear seat
- front airbags
side airbags in the front and rear* seats
- head airbags left and right above the
doors
special seat pan structure
- adjustable steering column
padded kneebar integrated into the dash
board. These
individual safety features, can work
together as a system to help protect you
and your passengers in a wide range of acci
dents. These features can't work as a sys
tem if they are not always properly adjusted
and properly used!
The following sections provide important in
formation about why these features are im
portant, how they work to help protect you
and your passengers and how they must be
adjusted and used to get the greatest bene
fit and reduce the likelihood of injury.
The sections also contain important
WA RNINGS which you and your passen
gers must always heed in order to reduce
the risk of personal injury.
Safety is everybody's responsibil
ity!
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SA
FETY FIRST
Don't rely on airbags alone for protection.
Even when they deploy, airbags provide
only supplemental protection. Airbags are
not supposed to deploy in all kinds of acci
dents. Although your Audi is equipped with
airbags for the driver and front seat passen
ger, all vehicle occupants, including the
driver, still have to wear safety belts- re
gardless of whether their seating position
has an airbag.
Remember too, that airbags will deploy only
once and that your safety belts are always
there to offer protection in those accidents
in which airbags are not supposed to deploy
or when they have already deployed.
Unbelted occupants can also be thrown out
of the car where even more severe or fatal
injuries can occur.
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passengers in the rear seats en
danger not only themselves but also other
passengers. In a frontal collision they will be
thrown forward violently, where they can hit
and injure the driver or front seat passenger.
Safety belts protect
Safety belts used properly can make a big
difference. Safety belts help to keep pas
sengers in their seats, gradually reduce en
ergy levels applied to the body in an acci
dent, and help prevent the uncontrolled
movement that can cause serious injuries.
In addition, safety belts reduce the danger
of being thrown out of the car. Safety
belts attach passengers to the car
and give them the benefit of being slowed
down more gently or "softly" through the
"give" in the safety belts, crumple zones
and other safety features engineered into
today's cars. By "absorbing" the kinetic en
ergy over a longer period of time, the forces
on the body become more "tolerable" and
less likely to cause injury.
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WARNING continued
• Keep the belts clean.
Dirty belts may not work properly
- see also .. Cleaning and protec
tion .. page 218.
• Safety belts that have been
worn and loaded in an accident
must be replaced with the correct
replacement safety belt by an au
thorized Audi Dealer. Replace
ment may be necessary even if
damage cannot be clearly seen.
• Safety belt anchorages that
have been loaded in an accident
must be inspected by a qualified
workshop or an authorized Audi
Dealer.
• Never modify. disassemble, or
try to repair your safety belts. Seating capacity
Your Audi has 5 seating positions, 2 in the
front and 3 in the rear. Each seating position
has a safety belt.
�W ARNING
Never let more people ride in the
vehicle than there are seat belts
available. Be sure everyone riding
in the vehicle is correctly re
strained with a separate seat belt. SA
FETY FIRST
Lap- shoulder belt
The front and rear seats are equipped with
three-point safety belts.
The three-point belts in the front passenger
and rear positions each have a convertible
locking feature in addition to the emergency
locking feature. The convertible locking fea
ture is used when a child seat is installed,
see page 51.
The retractors in the combination lap-shoul
der belts allow the system to adjust to your
size and movements as long as the pull on
the belt is slow.
Hard braking or a collision locks the belt. The
belt will a I so lock when you drive up or down
a steep hill or in a sharp curve.
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FETY RRST-----------------------------------------------------
Fastening the safety belt
• Adjust your seat before fastening
the safety belt. See page 76.
� WARN ING
Safety belts offer optimum protec
tion only when the seat back is up
right and belts are properly posi
tioned on the body. Improperly
positioned safety belts can cause
serious personal injury in an acci
dent.
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To fasten, grasp belt tongue and pull the
belt in a continuous slow motion across
your chest and lap.
• Insert the belt tongue into the buckle on
the inboard side of the seat. Push down un
til it is securely locked with an audible click.
Pull belt to check!
� WARNING
• Always make sure the safety
belt tongue is inserted into the
buckle for the same seating posi
tion.
• Att aching the safety belt to the
buckle for another seat could re
duce safety belt effectiveness and
cause injury. Adjusting
shoulder seat belt
Belt height adjustment front seats
Safety belt height adjustors for the
front seats can be used to adjust the
height of the shoulder portion of the safety
belt. This feature will help you properly posi
tion the shoulder portion of the safety belt
across your shoulder.
• Press the handle slowly up or down so
that the shoulder portion of the safety belt
is positioned nearly midway over the shoul
der.
• Pull on the shoulder belt to check
whether the belt anchor is securely locked
in place.
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FETY RRST---------------------------------------------------
Lateral belt adjustment outer rear
seats
Passengers sitting in the rear must position
safety belts over their body as outlined for
the front occupants.
The shoulder belt must be positioned over
the shoulder.
It must never rest against the neck
and must fit against your body. The
lap belt must be worn low and tight
across the pelvis.
See illustration above. Pull belt tight.
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outer rear seats are equipped with a
lateral shoulder belt adjustment.
• To adjust the shoulder belts of the outer
seats. move the belt guide towards the
center of the vehicle for taller occupants, or
towards the outside for shorter occupants.
See symbols on the belt guide. l
Safety belt guide for the center
rear seat
The three-point belt adjusts itself to suit the
height of the occupant.
The above illustration shows the belt fitted
on a person of average height.
For
occupants who may be smaller, the
position of the belt should be adjusted by
placing the belt in the guide, if otherwise the
belt would run across the wearer's neck
instead of over the center of the shoulder
(see illustration).
If the occupant moves a long way to one
side and the belt slides out of the gu id e . it
must be placed back in the guide by hand. Convert
ible Locking Retractor
(CLR)
The convertible locking retractor is neces
sary to secure child restraint systems.
The retractors for the front passenger's seat
and the rear seat three point safety belts are
equipped with an automatic locking feature
in addition to the emergency locking fea
ture.
If you need to install a child restraint system
on the front passenger's seat or on one of
the rear seats, it must be secured by use of
the belt after activating the locking feature
-see pages 32 and 51 for important safety
information related to the use of child re
straints on the front seat.
Activating the locking retractor
• Slowly pull the belt all the way out.
• Insert the belt tongue into the buckle for
tha t seating position (pull on it to check!)
a n d guide the rest of the belt with your hand
back in place; while doing this you should
hear a clicking sound. This sound signals
that the locking retractor has been acti
vated. SA
FETY FIRST
Deactivating the locking retractor
The locking retractor is deactivated by un
fas te n ing the safety belt and allowing the
safety belt to retract completely to its
stowed position. The safety belt can now be
used as an ordinary three-point safety belt
without the additional locking feature.
If a person sitting In the passenger
seat or rear wearing the safety belt
should activate the locking retrac
tor. then the safety belt must be un
fastened in order to deactivate the
locking retractor.
� WARN ING
Never unfasten the safety belt to
deactivate the locking retractor
while the vehicle is in motion. You
would not be protected at all and
could suffer serious injury in an ac
cident.
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Airbag system
Your vehicle has two front and four
side airbags, one front and one side air
bag for each front seat occupant, one side
airbag" for each rear seat occupant sitting
on the left and right rear seat.
In addition, your vehicle is equipped with
head airbags* on the left and right sides to
protect occupants seated next to the front
and rear doors. System
components
The airbag system consists of the following:
• electronic control module,
• an inflatable airbag with gas generator in
side the steering wheel,
• an inflatable airbag with gas generator in
side the instrument panel tor the front pas
senger,
• supplemental side airbags in the back
rest padding of the front and rear seats*,
• an inflatable curtain head airbag above
the doors on each side,
• an AIRB AG indicator light in the
instrument cluster ( see "Warning I Indica
tor lights" page 125).
The indicator light in the instrument cluster
(readiness light) will light up for a few sec
onds each time the ignition is switched on.
The light monitors the electronic control
module, sensor circuits, and system wiring. The
system must be inspected
if the indicator light:
• does not come on when the ignition is
switched on,
• does not go out after a few seconds after
the ignition is switched on, or
• comes on while driving.
In the event of a system malfunction, the in
dicator light will stay on continuously to
serve as a constant reminder to have the
system repaired.
�W ARNING
If any of these conditions occur,
have the alrbag system inspected
immediately by your Audi Dealer.
Otherwise, the airbags in your ve
hicle may not work properly in
case of a frontal collision or a side
impact.
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