2015 VOLKSWAGEN CC Owner´s Manual

Several layers of heavy clothing (such as a coat worn over
top of a sports jacket) may interfere with proper positioning of
the safety belt and reduce the overall effectiveness of the sys-
tem.
Never use comfort clips or devices that create slack in the
shoulder belt. However, special clips may be required for the
correct use of some child restraint systems.
Safety belts offer optimum protection only when the seat
backrest is upright and belts are correctly positioned on the
body.

WARNING
Damage to safety belts reduces their overall effectiveness and
increases the risk of serious personal injury and death when-
ever the vehicle is being used.
Never let safety belts become damaged by being caught in
the door or seat hardware.
Torn or frayed safety belts can tear, and damaged safety belt
hardware can break in an accident.
Inspect belts regularly for damage. If webbing, bindings,
buckles, or retractors are damaged, have the belts replaced
immediately with the correct replacement belts approved by
Volkswagen for your vehicle, model, and model year.
Safety belts that were subject to stress in an accident and
stretched must be replaced with a correct, new safety belt,
preferably by an authorized Volkswagen dealer or authorized
Volkswagen Service Facility.
Replacement after a crash may be necessary even if a safety
belt shows no visible damage. Anchorages that have been
loaded must also be inspected.
Damaged safety belts must be replaced; they cannot be re-
paired.
Never try to repair a damaged safety belt yourself. Never re-
move or modify the safety belts in any way.
Have safety belts, bindings, retractors and buckles replaced
by an authorized Volkswagen dealer or authorized Volkswagen
Service Facility.
Always keep the belts clean. Dirty belts may not work cor-
rectly and can impair the function of the inertia reel.

Warning light

Fig. 59 Warning light in the instrument cluster.

moving at a speed of more than about 15 mph (25 km/h), the chime
will again sound for about 6 seconds, then go off for about
24 seconds, then sound again for about another 6 seconds. The
same thing happens if one of the safety belts is fastened and then
unfastened while the vehicle is moving. The safety belt warning
light i also flashes. The warning chime continues to sound at
24 second intervals for up to 2 minutes. No chime sounds at speeds
of less than about 5 mph (8 km/h).
If the ignition is switched on, the safety belt warning light i stays on
until the driver and front passenger have both buckled their safety
belts.
WARNING
Not wearing a safety belt or wearing an improperly positioned
safety belt increases the risk of severe personal injury or death.
Safety belts offer optimum protection only when used correctly.
Frontal collisions and laws of physics

Fig. 60 A vehicle with passengers not wearing safety belts approach-
es a wall.

Fig. 61 A vehicle with passengers not wearing safety belts hits a wall.

What happens to passengers not wearing a safety belt

Fig. 62 The unbelted driver is thrown forward.

Fig. 63 Unbelted passengers in the rear seats are thrown forward on
top of the belted driver.

with airbags, all vehicle occupants, including the driver, must wear
safety belts correctly in order to minimize the risk of severe injury or
death in a crash, regardless of whether a seating position has an air-
bag or not.
An airbag will deploy only once. 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 vehicle, causing even more severe injuries
or death.
It is also important for occupants in the rear seats to wear their safety
belts properly since they can be thrown violently forward through the
vehicle in the event of an accident. Unbelted passengers in the rear
seats endanger not only themselves but also the driver and other
passengers in the vehicle ⇒ fig. 63.
Safety belts protect

Fig. 64 Belted driver secured by the correctly worn safety belt in the
event of a sudden braking maneuver.

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 (such as air-
bags) engineered into today's vehicles. The front crumple zones and
other passive safety features (such as the airbag system) are also
designed to absorb kinetic energy. By “absorbing” the kinetic energy
over a longer period of time, the forces on the body become more
“tolerable” and less likely to cause injury.
Although these examples are based on a frontal collision, safety belts
can also substantially reduce the risk of injury in other kinds of crash-
es. So, whether you're on a long trip or “just going to the corner
store,” always buckle up and make sure that others do, too.
Accident statistics show that vehicle occupants properly wearing safe-
ty belts have a lower risk of being injured and a much better chance
of surviving a collision. Properly using safety belts also greatly in-
creases the ability of the supplemental airbags to do their job in a
collision. For this reason, wearing a safety belt is required by law in
most countries including the United States and Canada.
Although your Volkswagen is equipped with airbags, you still have to
wear the safety belts provided. Front airbags, for example, are acti-
vated only in some frontal collisions. The front airbags are not acti-
vated in all frontal collisions, in side and rear collisions, in rollovers, or
in cases when the conditions for deployment stored in the electronic
control unit are not met. The same goes for the other airbag systems
on your Volkswagen.
So always wear your safety belt and make sure that everybody in
your vehicle is properly restrained!
Using safety belts