2017 KIA OPTIMA PLUG-IN HYBRID airbag off

WARNING
•The driver is responsible for theproper position of the passenger’sfront air bag ON/OFF switch.
•Deactivate the passenger's frontair bag only when the EngineStart/Stop button is in the OFF po‐sition, or the malfunction may oc‐cur in the SRS Control Module. Andthere may be a danger that thedriver's and/or front passenger’sand/or side and curtain air bagmay fail to trigger, or not triggercorrectly during a collision.
•Never install a rearward facingchild seat on the front passenger'sseat unless the passenger's frontair bag has been deactivated. Theinfant or child could be severely in‐jured or killed by an air bag deploy‐ment in case of an accident.
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•Even though your vehicle is equip‐ped with the passenger's front airbag ON/OFF switch, do not install achild restraint system in the frontpassenger's seat. A child restraintsystem must never be placed inthe front seat. Children who aretoo large for child restraint sys‐tems should always occupy therear seat and use the available lap/shoulder belts. Children are affor‐ded the most safety in the eventof an accident when they are re‐strained by a proper restraint sys‐tem in the rear seat.
•As soon as the child seat is no lon‐ger needed on the front passeng‐er's seat, reactivate the front pas‐senger's air bag.
Side air bag
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❈The actual air bags in the vehicle
may differ from the illustration.
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Your vehicle is equipped with a side air
bag in each front seat.
The purpose of the air bag is to provide the vehicle's driver and/or the front
passenger with additional protection to
that offered by the seat belt alone.
The side air bags are designed to de‐ ploy only during certain side impact col‐
lisions, depending on the crash severity,
angle, speed and point of impact. How‐ ever, when the side deployment
threshold is satisfied at front-impact,
the side air bags may deploy. The side air bags are not designed to deploy in
all side impact or rollover situations.
The side air bags may deploy on the
side of the impact or on both sides.
WARNING
Do not allow the passengers to leantheir heads or bodies onto doors, puttheir arms on the doors, stretchtheir arms out of the window, orplace objects between the doors andpassengers when they are seated onseats equipped with side and/or cur‐tain air bags.
NOTICE
nif equipped with rollover sen‐
sor
•Both sides of the side air bags de‐
ploy in certain rollover situations.
•The side air bag may deploy when
the rollover sensor detects the sit‐
uation as a rollover.
WARNING
•The side air bag is supplemental tothe driver's and the passenger'sseat belt systems and is not asubstitute for them. Therefore,your seat belts must be worn at alltimes while the vehicle is in mo‐tion. The air bags deploy only in
certain side impact or rollover*
conditions severe enough to causesignificant injury to the vehicle oc‐cupants.
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*: Only vehicles equipped with rolloversensor.
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•For best protection from the sideair bag system and to avoid beinginjured by the deploying side airbag, both front seat occupantsshould sit in an upright positionwith the seat belt properly fas‐tened. The driver's hands shouldbe placed on the steering wheel atthe 9:00 and 3:00 positions.The passenger's arms and handsshould be placed on their laps.
•Do not use any accessory seatcovers.
•Use of seat covers could reduce orprevent the effectiveness of thesystem.
•Do not install any accessories onthe side or near the side air bag.
•Do not place any objects over theair bag or between the air bag andyourself.
•Do not place any objects (an um‐brella, bag, etc.) between the frontdoor and the front seat. Such ob‐jects may become dangerous pro‐jectiles and cause injury if the sup‐plemental side air bag inflates.
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WARNING
•Do not hit or allow any objects toimpact the locations where airbags or sensors are installed.This may cause unexpected airbag deployment, which could re‐sult in serious personal injury ordeath.
•If the installation location or angleof the sensors is altered in anyway, the air bags may deploywhen they should not or they maynot deploy when they should,causing severe injury or death.Therefore, do not try to performmaintenance on or around the airbag sensors. We recommend thatthe system be serviced by an au‐thorized Kia dealer.
•Problems may arise if the sensorinstallation angles are changed dueto the deformation of the frontbumper, body or front door and Cpillars where side collision sensorsare installed. We recommend thatthe system be serviced by an au‐thorized Kia dealer.
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•Your vehicle has been designed toabsorb impact and deploy the airbag(s) in certain collisions. Instal‐ling bumper guards or replacing abumper with non-genuine partsmay adversely affect your vehi‐cle's collision and air bag deploy‐ment performance.
WARNING
nif equipped with rollover sen‐sor
If your vehicle is equipped with sideand curtain air bags, set the EngineStart/Stop button in the OFF posi‐tion when the vehicle is being towed.The side and curtain air bags maydeploy when the engine start/stopbutton is in the ON position, and therollover sensor detects the situationas a rollover.
Air bag inflation conditions
Front air bags
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Front air bags are designed to inflate in
a frontal collision depending on the in‐ tensity, speed or angles of impact of
the front collision.

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