2020 Seat Alhambra Owner's Manual

Seat belts
The lamp i goes out when the driv er and
passenger seat belts ar e fast
ened with the
ignition s
witched on.
Rear seat belts fastened display* Fig. 6
Example of seat belt status display for
the r ear seats (her
e, a 7-seat v
ehicl

e) on the in-
strument panel:: upper part, second row; lower
part, third row. Depending on the model version, when the
ignition is s
witched on, the seat belt st
atus
displ

ay

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airbag trigger threshold value in the control
unit is not e x
ceeded.
Impor t
ant saf
ety instructions for
the use of seat belts

Seat belts
moment a vehicle starts moving, a type of en-
er gy call
ed “kinetic ener gy” st
arts acting on
both the v
ehicle and its passengers.
The amount of “kinetic energy” depends on
the speed of the vehicle and on the weight of
the vehicle 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

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Properly worn seat belts hold the vehicle oc-
cupants in the position that most pr ot
ects
them in the e v
ent of an accident or sudden
br
aking

Seat belts

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Airbag system
rear-end collisions. This retracts and tightens
the seat belts, r educing the f
orwar
d motion of
the occupants.
The belt pr
e-tensioners work in combination
with the airbag system. In case of overturn,
the pre-tensioners do not activate unless the
head airbags are deployed. Note

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thrown forward into the area of the deploying
airbag. In this case , the infl
ating airbag may
inflict critical or f at
al injuries on the occupant.
This al
so 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
head-protection airbags will not be triggered.
Take into account that the visible damage in
a vehicle involved in an accident, no matter
how serious, is not a determining factor for
the airbags to have been triggered. WARNING