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exceptional circumstances and the PASSEN
GER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on
and stay on, immediately install the rear
ward-facing child safety seat in a rear seat
ing position and have the airbag system in
spected immediately by your authorized
Audi dealer.
A WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must in
stall 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 man
ufacturer for use on a front seat with a pas
senger front and side airbag.
- Always follow the manufacturer's instruc
tions 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 air
bag 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.
Always replace child restraints that were in
stalled in a vehicle during a crash. Damage 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 "Advanced
Airbag System" in compliance with United States
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
208 as applicable at the time your vehicle was
manufactured.
The Advanced Airbag system in your vehicle has
been certified to meet the "low-risk" require
ments for 3- and 6-year old children on the pas
senger side and small adults on the driver side.
The low risk deployment criteria are intended to
Child safety
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 ai rbag inflates. In addition, the
system has been certified to comply with the "suppression" requirements of the Safety Stand
ard, to turn off the front airbag for infants up to
12 months who are restrained on the front pas
senger seat in child restraints that are listed in
the Standard.
Even though your vehicle is equipped with an Ad
vanced Airbag system, all children, especially
those 12 years and younger, should always ride in
the back seat properly restrained for their age
and size. The airbag on the passenger 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 forward-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 de
tects the presence of an infant or child in a child
restraint on the front passenger seat using the
weight-sensing mat in the seat cushion 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 de
sign of the child restraint and its "footprint", the
size and shape of the bottom of the child re
straint as it sits on the seat. The weight of a child
restraint and its "footprint" vary for different
kinds of child restraints and for the different
models of the same kind of child restraint offered
by child restraint manufacturers.
The weight ranges for the individual types, makes
and models of child restraints that the NHTSA
has specified in the Safety Standard together
with the weight ranges of typical infants and typ-
ical 1 year-old child have been stored in the ...,
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Index
s
SAFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Safe driving habits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Safe lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Safety Airbag system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
B elts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Correct seat ing posit ion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 12
Peda larea .. .. ............... .. .. .. . 116
Safety belt posi tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Safety belts worn by pregnant women . . . 125
Safety belt prete nsioner
Service and disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Safety belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120, 123
Da nger to passengers who do not wear a
safety belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Fasten ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
I mp rope rly wor n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
No t wo rn .......................... 121
Safety belt posi tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Safety ins truc tions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2
Securing chi ld safety seats . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Specia l considerations for pregna nt wom-
en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Unfasten ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Warn ing/ indicator light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Warn ing l ight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Wo rn properly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Safety belt warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Safety compli ance s ticker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Safety equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Safety features for occupant restrai nt and
protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
S afety guide lin es
Sea ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Safety inst ructions
E ng ine compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
for side curta in a irbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 9
for usi ng ch ild safety seats . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
for usi ng safety bel ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
M on itoring the Advanced Airbag System 1 40
Seat adjustment Head restraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Seat belts refer to Safety belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
248
Seat heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Seating capac ity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Seating position Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Front passenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
How to ad just the front seats . . . . . . . . . . 113
Incor rect seat position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Occ upants... .. .. .. .... ......... .. .. 112
Rea r passengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Seats Adjus ting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Adjusting in the MMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Convenie nce side view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
C orrec t seating posi tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Drive r's sea t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Fo ld ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Front passenger's seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Number of seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Power easy entry f unction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Safety gu idelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Seat symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Seat ventilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Se lective unlock feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Selector lever
Emergency release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
S t ronic transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Se lector lever disp lay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Se lector lever emergency release . . . . . . . . . 87
Serv ice and disposal
Safety belt pretensioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Se rvice interval display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Se rv ice position
refer to Replacing w iper blades . . . . . . . . . SO
SET button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sh utting down vehi cle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Side a irbags
Desc ription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4
How they wor k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6
s ide ass ist
Adjusting the brig htness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Sensor range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Side assist
Activating and deactivating . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Descrip tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97