2018 Seat Toledo Owner's manual

Seat belts
Seat belts
The whys and wher ef
or
es of
seat belts
Number of seats Your vehicle has five
seats, tw
o in the front
and three in the rear. Each seat is equipped
with a three-point seat belt.
In some versions, your vehicle is approved
only for four seats. Two front seats and two
rear seats. WARNING

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belts before every trip, even when "just driving
ar ound the corner
".
Ensur
e that your passengers wear their seat
belts as well. Accident statistics have shown
that wearing seat belts is an effective means
of substantially reducing the risk of injury and
improving the chances of survival when in-
volved in a serious accident. Furthermore,
properly worn seat belts improve the protec-
tion provided by airbags in the event of an
accident. For this reason, wearing a seat belt
is required by law in most countries.
Although your vehicle is equipped with air-
bags, the seat belts must be fastened and
worn. The front airbags, for example, are only
triggered in some cases of head-on collision.
The front airbags will not be triggered during
minor frontal or side collisions, rear-end colli-
sions, rollovers or accidents in which the air-
bag trigger threshold value in the control unit
is not exceeded.
Therefore, you should always wear your seat
belt and ensure that all vehicle occupants
have fastened their seat belts properly before
you drive off!
Important safety instructions for
the use of seat belts

Seat belts
Head-on collisions and the laws of
physics Fig. 77
A driver not wearing a seat belt is
thr own f
orward violently. Fig. 78
The unbelted passenger in the rear
seat is thr own f

orward violently, hitting the driv-
er wearing a seat belt The effects of the laws of physics in the case
of a head-on collision ar
e easy t
o e

xplain: the
moment a vehicle starts moving, a type of en- ergy called “kinetic energy” starts acting on
both the vehicle and its passengers.
The amount of “kinetic ener

gy” depends on
the speed of the vehicle and on the weight of
the vehicle and of its passengers. The higher
the speed and the greater the weight, the
more energy there is to be “absorbed” in an
accident.
The most significant factor, however, is the
speed of the vehicle. If the speed doubles
from 25 km/h (15 mph) to 50 km/h (30 mph),
for example, the corresponding kinetic ener-
gy is multiplied by four.
Because the vehicle occupants in our exam-
ple are not restrained by seat belts, in the
event of crashing against a wall, all of the oc-
cupants

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How to properly adjust your
seat belt Fast
ening and unf
astening the seat
belt Fig. 79
Positioning and removing the seat belt
buckl e
. Fig. 80
Placing the seat belt in the shoulder
and pel vis area f

or pregnant women. Fasten your seat belt
The seat belt cannot off
er its full pr
ot

ection if
the seat belt is not positioned correctly.

Seat belts

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Maintenance and disposal of belt
t ensioners The belt tensioners are components of the
seat belts that are inst
all
ed in the seats of
your vehicle. If you work on the belt tension-
ers or remove and install parts of the system
when performing other repair work, the seat
belt may be damaged. The consequence
may be that, in the event of an accident, the
belt tensioners function incorrectly or may
not function at all.
So that the effectiveness of the seat belt ten-
sioner is not reduced and that removed parts
do not cause any injuries or environmental
pollution, regulations, which are known to the
specialised workshops, must be observed. WARNING

Airbag system
thrown forward into the area of the deploying
airbag. In this case , the infl
ating airbag may
inflict critical or f
atal injuries on the occupant.
This also applies to children.
Always maintain the greatest possible dis-
tance between yourself and the front airbag.
This way, the front airbags can completely
deploy when triggered, providing their maxi-
mum protection.
The most important factors for triggering the
airbag are the type of accident, the angle of
impact and the vehicle speed.
Whether or not the airbags are triggered de-
pends primarily on the vehicle deceleration
rate resulting from the collision and detected
by the control unit. If the vehicle deceleration
occurring during the collision and measured
by the control unit remains below the speci-
fied reference values, the front, side and/or
curtain airbags will not be triggered. Take into
account that the visible damage in a vehicle
involved in an accident, no matter how seri-
ous, is not a determining factor for the air-
bags to have been triggered. WARNING

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