2015 AUDI RS5 CABRIOLET steering wheel adjustment

60 Seats and stor age
Seats and storage
General recommen­
dations
Why is your seat adjustment so
important?
The safety belts and the airbag system can
only provide maximum protection if the front
seats are correctly adjusted.
There are various ways of adjusting the front
seats to provide safe and comfortable support
for the driver and the front passenger. Adjust
you r seat prope rly so that :
- you can easily and quickly reach all the
switches and controls in the instrument
panel
-your body is properly supported thus reduc­
ing physical stress and fatigue
- the safety be lts and airbag system can offer
maximum protection
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In the following sections, you will see exactly
how you can best adjust your seats .
There are special regulations and instructions
for installing a child safety seat on the front
passenger's seat. Always follow the informa­
tion regarding child safety provided in
¢ page 152, Child Safety.
WARNING
Refer to¢ page 112, Driving Safely for
important information, tips, suggestions
and warnings that you should read and fol­
low for your own safety and the safety of
your passengers.
A WARNING
, -
Incorrect seating position of the driver and
all other passengers can result in serious
personal injury .
- Always keep your feet on the floor when
the vehicle is in motion -never put your
feet on top of the instrument panel, out of the w indow or on top of the seat cush­
ion. This applies especially to the passen- gers
. If your seating position is incorrect,
you increase the risk of injury in the case
of sudden braking or an accident. If the
airbag inflates and the seating position is incorrect, this could result in personal
injury or even death.
- It is important for both the driver and front passenger to keep a distance of at
least 10 inches (25 cm) between them­
selves and the steering wheel and/or in­
strument panel.
If you're sitting any
closer than this, the airbag system can­
not protect you properly. In addition, the
front seats and head restraints must be
adjusted to your body height so that they
can give you maximum protection.
- Always try to keep as much distance as
possible between yourself and the steer­
ing wheel or instrument panel.
- Do not adjust the driver's or front pas­
senger 's seat while the vehicle is moving.
Your seat may move unexpectedly, caus­
ing sudden loss of veh icle control and
personal injury. If you adjust your seat
while the veh icle is moving, you are out
of posit ion.
Driver's seat
The correct seat position is important for safe
and relaxed driving .
We recommend that you adjust the driver's
seat in the following manner :
.. Adjust the seat in fore and aft direction so
that you can easily push the pedals to the
floor wh ile keeping your knees slightly bent
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portant? on page
60 .
.,. Adjust the seatback so that when you sit
w ith your back against the seatback , you can
still grasp the top of the steering wheel.
.. Applies to vehicles with adjustable head re­
straints: Adjust the head restraint so the up­
per edge is as even as possible with the top
of your head. If that is not possible, try to
adjust the head restraint so that it is as .,.

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Airbag system Important things to know
Importance of wearing safety belts and
sitting properly
Airbags are only supplemental restrain ts . For
airbags to do their job , occupants m ust al­
ways properly wear their safety belts and be
in a proper seating position.
F or your safety and the safety of your passen­
gers, before driving off, always:
"" Adjust the dr iver's sea t and steeri ng wheel
p roperly
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"" Adjust the front passenger's seat properly
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""Wear safety be lts properly ¢ page 126,
"" Always properly use the proper child re-
stra int to protect ch ildren
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In a collision airbags must inflat e within th e
blink of an eye and with considerable force .
The supplementa l airbags can cause injuries if
the dr iver or the front seat passenger is not
seated properly . T herefore in order to help the
a irbag to do its job, it is important, both as a
driver and as a passenge r to s it properly at all
times.
By keep ing room between your body and the
steer ing whee l and the front of the passenge r
compartment, the airbag can inflate fully and
comp lete ly and provide supp lemen tal protec­
tion in ce rtain frontal collisions
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Proper occupant seating positions .
For deta ils
on the operation of the seat adjustment con­
trols
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It's espe cially important that children a re
p roperly restrained
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There is a lot that the d river and the passen­
gers ca n and must do to help the individua l
safety features ins talled in your A ud i work to­
gether as a system.
P rope r seat ing pos ition is important so that
the front airbag on the dr iver s ide ca n do its
job. If yo u have a physical impa irment or con-
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dition that prevents yo u from sitting properly
o n the driver seat with the safety belt properly
fastened and reach ing the peda ls, spec ial
modifications to yo ur vehicle may be necessa­
ry.
Contact your a uthorized Audi dea ler, or call
Audi C ustome r Re lations at 1-800 -822-2834 .
When the airbag system dep loys, a gas gene r­
ator will fi ll the ai rbags, break open the pad ­
ded covers, and inf late between t he steering
whee l and the dr iver and between the instru ­
ment panel and the front passenger. The air­
bags will deflate immediately after deploy­
ment so that the front occupa nts can see
t hr ough the w indshield aga in witho ut inter­
ruption .
All of th is takes place in the blink of an eye, so
fast that many people don't even realize that
the a irbags have deployed . The airbags also
inflate wi th a g reat dea l of force and noth ing
shou ld be in their way when they deploy.
Fron t airbags in combin ation wi th properly
worn safety belts slow down and lim it the oc ­
cupan t's forward movement. Together they
help to prevent the driver and front seat pas­
senger from hitting parts of the inside the ve­ hicle while reducing the forces acting on the
occupant dur ing the crash. In this way they
help to reduce t he risk of injury to the head
and upper body i n the c rash . A irbags do not
protect the a rms o r the lower parts of the
body .
Both front a irbags w ill not inflate in all fronta l
collisions . The t riggering of the a irbag system
depends on the vehicle dece le rat ion rate
ca used by the co llision and registered by the
ele ctron ic co ntro l unit. If thi s rate is below
t he reference value programmed into the con­
trol unit, the airbags will not be trigge red,
even though the car may be bad ly damaged as
a resu lt of the co llision . Veh icle damage, re­
pair costs or even the lack of ve hicle damage
is no t necessarily an indication of whether an
airbag s hou ld inflate o r not .
It is not possib le to define a range of vehicle
speeds that w ill cover every possib le kind and ..,.
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-If you must install a rearward facing
child safety seat on the front passenger
seat in exceptional circumstances and
the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does
not come on and stay on, immediately
install the rearward-facing child safety
seat in a rear seating position and have
the airbag system inspected immediately by your authorized Audi dealer.
,& WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must
install a forward-facing child restraint on
the front passenger's seat:
- Always make sure the forward-facing
seat has been designed and certified by
its manufacturer for use on a front seat
with a passenger front and side airbag.
- Always follow the manufacturer's in­
structions provided with the child safety
seat or carrier.
- Always move the passenger seat into its
rearmost position in the seat's fore and
aft adjustment range, as far away from
the airbag as possible before installing
the child restraint. The backrest must be adjusted to an upright position .
- Always make sure that the
PASSENGER
AIR BAG OFF
light comes on and stays
on all the time whenever the ignition is
switched on.
@ Tips
Always replace child restraints that were
installed in a vehicle during a crash. Dam­
age to a child restraint that is not visible
could cause it to fail in another collision
situation.
Advanced front airbag system and children
Your vehicle is equipped with a front "Ad­
vanced Airbag System" in compliance with
M N United States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety er
~ Standard (FMVSS) 208 as applicable at the ,....,
~ time your vehicle was manufactured .
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Child Safety 153
The Advanced Airbag system in your vehicle
has been certified to meet the "low-risk" re­
quirements for 3- and 6-year old children on
the passenger side and small adults on the driver side. The low risk deployment criteria
are intended to reduce the risk of injury
through interaction with the airbag that can
occur, for example, by being too close to the
steering wheel and instrument panel when
the airbag inflates. In addition, the system
has been certified to comply with the "sup­
pression" requirements of the Safety Stand­
ard, to turn off the front airbag for infants up
to 12 months who are restrained on the front passenger seat in child restraints that are list­
ed in the Standard.
Even though your vehicle is equipped with an
Advanced Airbag system, all children, espe­
cially those 12 years and younger, should al­
ways ride in the back seat properly restrained
for their age and size . The airbag on the pas ­
senger side makes the front seat a potentially
dangerous place for a child to ride . The front
seat is not the safest place for a child in a for­
ward-facing child safety seat. It can be a very
dangerous place for an infant or a larger child
in a rearward-facing seat.
Advanced Airbags and the weight­
sensing mat in the front seat
The Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
detects the presence of an infant or child in a
child restraint on the front passenger seat us­
ing the weight-sensing mat in the seat cush­
ion and the sensor below the safety belt latch
on the front passenger seat that measures the
tension on the safety belt.
The weight-sensing mat measures total
weight of the child and the child safety seat
and a child blanket on the front passenger
seat. The weight on the front passenger seat
is related to the design of the child restraint
and its "footprint", the size and shape of the
bottom of the child restraint as it sits on the
seat. The weight of a child restraint and its "footprint" vary for different kinds of child re -
straints and for the different models of the ..,. •
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278 Index
for using safety belts ........ .. .... . 126
Mon itoring th e Advanced Airbag Sys -
tem ... .. .. ... .... ......... ..... . 143
Seat adjustment
H ead restraints .......... .. .. .... . 115
Seat belts
refer to Safety belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Seat covers Cleaning . .. ............. .. .. .. ... 187
Seat heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Upper cabin heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Seating capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Seating position Driver ... .. ............... .. .... . 113
Front passenger ........... ... .. .. . 114
H ow to adjust the front seats ... .. .. . 114
I ncorrect seat position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Occupants .... ........... .... .... . 113
Rear passengers ........ .. .. .. .. .. . 115
Seat memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Seats Adjusting . ................. ..... .. 61
Adjusting in the MMI ...... .. .. .... .. 62
Conven ience side view ..... .. .. .. .. . . 62
D . , rivers seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Folding .. .. ..... ........... ... .. .. 66
Front passenger's seat ......... .. .. .. 61
H ead restraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Number of seats ......... .. .. .. .. . 123
Power easy entry func tion . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Safety guidelines ................... 60
Seat symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Seat ventilat ion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Seat (upper cabin heating) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Selective unlock feature ............... 35
Selector lever
Emergency release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
S tron ic transmission ........ .. .. .. . . 83
Selector lever display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Selector lever emergency release . . . . . . . 89
Service and disposal Safety belt pretens ioner ... .. .. .. .. . 130
Service interval display ...... .. .. .. .. . . 26
Service position
refer to Replacing wiper blades ... .... 57
SET button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Shutting down vehicle ........ .. .. .. . 181 Side airbags
Description . ..... ................ .
How they work ... .............. .. .
s ide ass ist
Adjusting the brightness ........... .
Sensor range
S ide assist
148
150
101
99
Activati ng and deactivating ...... .. .. 101
Cleaning the sensors ........... .... 185
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
S ide marker lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Ski sack ... ..... .. .. .............. .. 67
Snow cha ins .. .. . .. .......... .... .. 237
Sound system display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Sources of information about child re-
straints and their use ................ 169
Speedometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Speed rating letter code .......... .... 232
Speed warning system ............ ... . 80
Sport d ifferential .. ....... ...... .. .. 102
Indicator lamp . .. ................ .. 22
START ENGINE STOP button (convenience
key) ... .... .... .. ............. .... . 77
START ENGINE STOP button (Convenience
key) ............................... 76
Starting from rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73, 76
Steering Locking the steering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
olso refer to Electro-mechanica l power
assist ........................... 175
Stee ring wheel
Adjusting steering column .... .... .. . 73
Indicator light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 175
Steps for determin ing correct load limit . 226
Stopping the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 77
Storage ...... .. .. .. ... .... .... .... . 65
S tronic ........ .. .. ........ ...... .. 83
S tronic transmission Automatic Shift Lock (ASL) . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Driving information . ........... .. .. . 85
Emergency mode . ............. .... . 88
Emergency release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Kick-down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Launch Control Program ........... .. 88