Audi A6 Typ 4G: Advanced front airbag system
Your vehicle is equipped with a front Advanced
Airbag System in compliance with United States
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208, as
well as Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (CMVSS) 208 as applicable at the
time your vehicle
was manufactured.
The front Advanced Airbag System supplements
the safety belts to provide additional protection
for the driver's and front passenger's heads and
upper bodies in frontal crashes. The airbags inflate
only in frontal impacts when the vehicle deceleration
is high enough.
The front Advanced Airbag System for the front
seat occupants is not a substitute for your safety
belts. Rather, it is part of the overall occupant restraint
system in your vehicle. Always remember
that the airbag system can only help to protect
you, if you are sitting upright, wearing your safety
belt and wearing it properly. This is why you
and your passengers must always be properly restrained,
not just because the law requires you to
be.
The Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle has
been certified to meet the "low risk" requirements
for 3 and 6 year-old children on the passenger
side and very small adults on the driver
side. The low risk deployment criteria are intended
to help reduce the risk of injury through interaction
with the front airbag that can occur, for
example, by being too close to the steering wheel
and instrument panel when the airbag inflates.
In addition, the system has been certified to
comply with the "suppression" requirements of
the Safety Standard, to turn off the front airbag
for infants 12 months old and younger who are
restrained on the front passenger seat in child restraints
that are listed in the Standard.
"Suppression" requires the front airbag on the
passenger side to be turned off if:
- a child up to about one year of age is restrained
on the front passenger seat in one of the rear-facing
or forward-facing infant restraints listed
in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208
with which the Advanced Airbag System in your
vehicle was certified. For a listing of the child
restraints that were used to certify your vehicle's
compliance with the US Safety Standard,
- When a person is detected on the front passenger
seat that has an electrical capacitance that
is more than the total electrical capacitance of
a child that is about 1 year old restrained in one
of the rear-facing or forward-facing infant restraints
(listed in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard 208 with which the Advanced Airbag
System in your vehicle was certified), the front
airbag on the passenger side may or may not
deploy.
The PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light comes on
when the electronic control unit detects a total
electrical capacitance on the front passenger seat
that requires the front airbag to be turned off. If
the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not
come on, the front airbag on the passenger side
has not been turned off by the control unit and
can deploy if the control unit senses an impact
that meets the conditions stored in its memory.
If the total electrical capacitance registered on
the front passenger seat is more than that of a
typical 1 year-old, but less than the weight of a
small adult, the front airbag on the passenger
side may deploy (the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not come on).
For example, the airbag may deploy if:
- a small child that is heavier than a typical 1
year-old child is on the front passenger seat
(regardless of whether the child is in one of the
child seats listed),
- a child who has outgrown child restraints is on
the front passenger seat.
If the front passenger airbag is turned off, the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light in the center of
the instrument panel will come on and stay on.
If the front passenger airbag deploys, the Federal
Standard requires the airbag to meet the "low
risk" deployment criteria to help reduce the risk
of injury through interaction with the airbag.
"Low risk" deployment occurs in those crashes
that take place at lower decelerations as defined
in the electronic control unit.
Always remember: Even though your vehicle is
equipped with Advanced Airbags, the safest place
for children is properly restrained on the back seat. Please be sure to read the
important information
in the sections that follow and be sure to
heed all of the WARNINGS.
WARNING
To reduce the risk of injury when an airbag inflates,
always wear safety belts properly.
- If you are unrestrained, leaning forward, sitting
sideways or out of position in any way,
your risk of injury is much higher.
- You will also receive serious injuries and
could even be killed if you are up against the
airbag or too close to it when it inflates -
even with an Advanced Airbag.
WARNING
A child in a rearward-facing child seat installed
on the front passenger seat will be seriously
injured and can be killed if the front airbag
inflates - even with an Advanced Airbag
System.
- Although the Advanced Airbag System in
your vehicle is designed to turn off the front
airbag when a rearward-facing child restraint
has been installed on the front passenger
seat, nobody can absolutely guarantee
that deployment is impossible in all conceivable
situations that may happen during
the useful life of your vehicle.
- The inflating airbag will hit the child seat or
infant carrier with great force and will
smash the child seat and child against the
backrest, center armrest, door, or roof.
- Always install rearward-facing child restraints
on the rear seat.
- If you must install a rearward facing child
seat on the front passenger seat because of
exceptional circumstances and the PASSENGER
AIR BAG OFF light does not come on
and stay on, immediately install the rear-facing
child seat in a rear seating position
and have the airbag system inspected by
your Audi dealer.
WARNING
If, in exceptional circumstances, you must install
a forward-facing child restraint on the
front passenger's seat:
- Always make sure the forward-facing seat
has been designed and certified by its manufacturer
for use on a front seat with a passenger
front and side airbag.
- Never put the forward-facing child restraint
up against or very near the instrument panel.
- Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest position in the up and down adjustment
range and move it back to the
rearmost position in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment range, as far away from the airbag
as possible, before installing the forward-
facing child restraint.
- Always make sure that the safety belt upper
anchorage is behind the child restraint and
not next to or in front of the child restraint
so that the safety belt will be properly positioned.
- Always make sure that there is nothing on
the front passenger seat that will cause the
capacitive passenger detection system in
the seat to signal to the Airbag System that
the seat is occupied by a person when it is
not, or to signal that it is occupied by someone
who is heavier than the person actually
sitting on the seat. The presence of additional
objects could cause the passenger
front airbag to be turned on when it should
be off, or could cause the airbag to work in a
way that is different from the way it would
have worked without the object on the seat.
- Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignition is switched on.
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The front passenger seat in your vehicle has a lot
of very important parts of the Advanced Airbag
System in it. These parts include the capacitive
passenger detection system, wiring, brackets,
and mor
The front Advanced Airbag System and the side
airbags supplement the protection offered by the
front three-point safety belts with pretensioners
and load limiters and the adjustable head restraints
to
Fig. 155 Inflated front airbags
Safety belts are important to help keep front
seat occupants in the proper seated position so
that airbags can unfold properly and provide supplemental
protection in a
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