2019 Seat Tarraco Owner's manual

Safe driving
WARNING
Incorrect use of the steering wheel adjust-
ment function and an incorrect adjustment
of the steering wheel can result in sever e or
f
atal injury.

Safety
Seat belts
The whys and wher ef
or es of
seat belts
Contr ol lamps i
It lights up red
Driver or passenger has not fastened seat belt. The control lamp i lights up t
o r
emind the
driv er t
o fast
en their seat belt.
Bef
ore starting the vehicle:

Seat belts
the front part of your vehicle and other pas-
siv e saf
ety f
eat ur
es (such as the airbag sys-
t
em) are designed to absorb the kinetic ener-
gy released in a collision. Taken together, all
these features reduce the releasing kinetic
energy and consequently, the risk of injury.
This is why it is so important to fasten seat
belts before every trip, even when "just driving
around the corner".
Ensure 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, overturns or accidents in which the air-
bag trigger threshold value in the control unit
is not exceeded. Important safety instructions for
the use of seat belts

Safety
Head-on collisions and the laws of
physics Fig. 8
A driver not wearing a seat belt is thrown
f orw ar
d viol ently. Fig. 9
The unbelted passenger in the rear seat
is thr own f
orwar
d viol ently, hitting the driv
er
who is wearing a seat belt. The effects of the laws of physics in the case
of a head-on collision ar
e easy t
o expl
ain: the
moment a v ehicl
e st

arts moving, a type of en- ergy called “kinetic energy” starts acting on
both the vehicle and its passengers.
The amount of “kinetic energy” depends onthe speed of the vehicle and on the weight of
the v

ehicle and of its passengers. The higher
they are, the more energy there is to be “ab-
sorbed” in the event of 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.
Given that the passengers of the vehicle in
our example do not have their seat belts fas-
tened, in the event of a collision the entire
amount of the passengers

Seat belts
How to properly adjust your
seat belt Fast
ening and unf ast
ening the seat
belt Fig. 10
Insert the latch plate of the seat belt
int o the buckl
e. Fig. 11
Release the seat belt

Safety
Correct seat belt position Fig. 12
Correct seat belt and headrest posi-
tions, vie wed fr
om fr ont and the side
.Fig. 13
Position of seat belt during pregnancy. Seat belts offer their maximum protection in
the e
v
ent of an accident and r educe the risk
of sust aining se v
er
e or fatal injuries only when
they are properly positioned. Furthermore, if
the webbing is correctly positioned, the seat belt will hold the vehicle occupants in the op-
timum position to ensure the airbag provides
the maximum protection. The seat belt must
ther

efore always be worn and the webbing
correctly positioned.
Incorrectly worn seat belts can cause severe
or even fatal injuries

Seat belts
belt webbing, contact a specialised work-
shop for help with any special devices to
ensure the optimum prot ection of the seat
belt and airbag. SEAT r
ecommends taking
your car in for technical service. Seat belt height adjustment
Fig. 14
Next to the front seats: belt height ad-
just er
. Using the height adjusters for the front seats
and the out
er seats of the second r o
w , the
position of the seat belts can be adjust ed in
the shoul der ar

ea according to the height of
the occupant:

Safety
may be that, in the event of an accident, the
belt t ensioners function incorr
ectly or may
not function at all.
So that the eff ectiv
eness of the seat belt t en-
sioner is not r educed and that r
emoved parts
do not cause any injuries or environmental
pollution, regulations, which are known to the
specialised workshops, must be observed. WARNING