-For safety reasons in severe accidents, the
alternator and starter are separated from
the vehicle battery with a pyrotechn ic circuit
interrupter.
-Work on the pyrotechnic circ uit interrupt
er must only be performed by
a qualified
technicians who have the experience, in
formation and special tools necessary to
perform the work safely.
-I f the vehicle or the circuit interrupter is
scrapped, all app licab le safety precautions
must be followed .
@) For the sake of the environment
Undeployed airbag modu les a nd pretension
ers might be classified as Perch lorate Materi
al
-special handling may apply, see
www.dtsc .ca.gov/hazardouswaste/perchlo
rate. When the vehicle or parts of the re
straint system including airbag modules and
safety belts with pretensioners are scrapped,
all applicable laws and regulations must be
observed. Your authorized Audi dealer is fa
m iliar with these requi rements a nd we recom
mend t hat you have you r dealer perform this
service for you.
Other things that can affect Advanced
Airbag performance
Changing the vehicle's suspension system can
change the way that the Advanced Airbag System performs in a crash . For example, using tire-r im
comb inat ions not approved by Audi, lowering the
ve hicl e, chang ing the stiffness of the suspens io n,
in clud ing the spr ings, suspens ion str uts, shock
absorbers et c. can change the forces that are
measured by the airbag sensors and sent to the
e lectronic contro l unit. Some suspension changes
can, for example, increase the force levels meas
ured by the sensors and make the airbag system
deploy in crashes in wh ich it would not deploy if
the changes had not been made. Other ki nds of
changes may reduce the fo rce levels meas ured by
the sensors and prevent the airbag from deploy
in g when i t should .
Airbag sys tem
A WARNING
-Changing the vehicle's suspension including
use of unapproved tire-rim combinations can
change Advanced Airbag performance and in
crease the risk of serious persona l injury in a
crash.
- Never install suspension components that
do not have the same pe rformance charac
teristics as the components o rigina lly ins tal
led on your vehicle.
- Never use tire-rim combinations t hat have
not been approved by Audi.
Knee airbags
Description of knee airbags
The knee airbag system can provide supplemen
tal protection to prop erly restrained front sea t
occupants.
F ig. 2 42 D river 's knee a irbag
The driver knee airbag is in the instrument panel
u nderneath the steering whee l
~fig. 242, the
airbag fo r the p asse nger is at about the same
height in the instr ument pane l underneath the
glove compa rtment.
T he knee airbag offers add itiona l protection to
the driver's and passenge r's knees and uppe r and
lower thigh areas and supp lements the protec
tion provided by the safety be lts .
If the front airbags deploy, the knee airbags a lso
deploy in fron tal coll is ions when the deploymen t
threshold stored in the cont rol un it is me t
~ page 281, More important things to know
about front airbags.
287
Index
Speedometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Speed warning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Speller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Sport differentia l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Indicator light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Sport view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Stabilization program
refer to ESC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146, 147
Start/Stop system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Switching off/on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
S T ART ENGINE STOP button . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Starting to drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Starting (engine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83, 86
Steering Electromechanical steering . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
L ocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
also refer to Electromechanical steering 150
Steering wheel Adjusting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Shift paddles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Steering wheel heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
also refer to Multifunction
steering wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 15, 16
Steps for determining correct load limit . . . 348
Stopover (navigation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Stopping (engine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Storage compartments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Stored stations
refer to Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Streaming
refer to Online media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Street View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
S tronic (automatic transmission) . . . . . . . . . 91
Subtitles (DVD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Subwoofer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Sunshade Rear window/rear doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Sun visors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Suspension control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Swap call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Switching tabs
refer to Multifunction
steering wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, lS, 16
Switching the ignition on/off. . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
398
Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16S
Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
also refer to Indicator lights . . . . . . . . . . . . 2S
SYNC (button) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
System settings (MMI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
System update (MMI) ... ............... 251
System volume 252
T
Tachometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 12
Tail lights
Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
TOI clean diese l
refer to Ad Blue... .. .. ............... 319
Technical data ...... ... ............... 379
Technical modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Connecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Dialing a number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Options during a phone call . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Playing music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Set tings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Temperature display Coolant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Outside temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Tether anchors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Tether strap .. .. .. .. .. ............. .. 312
Text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Tie-downs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73, 261
Tightening specification Wheel bolts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Tightening specification (wheel bolts) . . . . 366
Time ......... ... ... ............. ... 248
Tire Mobility System (tire repair set) . . . . . . 361
Tires....... .. .. .. .. .. ... .......... .. 334
Low-profile tires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
quattro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Repair set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
R eplacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Tire pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Tire pressure monitoring system ... 351,352
Tire pressure table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Tire pressure (trailer towing mode) . . . . . . 99
Unidirectional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336, 366
Uniform tire quality grading . . . . . . . . . . . 351