2010 CHEVROLET HHR Owners Manual

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CHEVROLET HHR 2010 1.G Owners Manual When Should an Airbag Inflate?
Frontal airbags are designed to inflate in moderate to
severe frontal or near-frontal crashes to help reduce the
potential for severe injuries mainly to the drivers or

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CHEVROLET HHR 2010 1.G Owners Manual In addition, your vehicle has dual-stage frontal airbags.
Dual-stage airbags adjust the restraint according to
crash severity. Your vehicle has an electronic frontal
sensor, which helps the sensing sy

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CHEVROLET HHR 2010 1.G Owners Manual What Makes an Airbag Inflate?
In a deployment event, the sensing system sends an
electrical signal triggering a release of gas from the
inflator. Gas from the inflator fills the airbag causing the
bag

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CHEVROLET HHR 2010 1.G Owners Manual What Will You See After an Airbag
Inflates?
After the frontal airbags inflate, they quickly deflate, so
quickly that some people may not even realize an
airbag inflated. Roof-rail airbags may still be

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CHEVROLET HHR 2010 1.G Owners Manual {WARNING:
A crash severe enough to inflate the airbags
may have also damaged important functions in
the vehicle, such as the fuel system, brake and
steering systems, etc. Even if the vehicle appears
t

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CHEVROLET HHR 2010 1.G Owners Manual Passenger Sensing System
If the vehicle has one of the passenger airbag status
indicators pictured in the following illustrations, then the
vehicle has a passenger sensing system for the right
front p

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CHEVROLET HHR 2010 1.G Owners Manual {WARNING:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger airbag inflates. This is because the
back of the rear-facing child restraint would be

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CHEVROLET HHR 2010 1.G Owners Manual The passenger sensing system is designed turn on
(may inflate) the right front passenger frontal airbag
anytime the system senses that a person of adult size is
sitting properly in the right front pas