sition in any way, you and your passengers are
at greater risk of injury or death in an acci-
dent.
Working with the seat belt retractor and anchor, it
helps tighten the seat belt the instant the vehicle
becomes involved in certain types of collisions, help-
ing to restrain front seat occupants. See “Pre-ten-
sioner seat belt system” earlier in this section.
WARNING
Never install a child restraint system in the
frontseat.Aninflatingsupplementalfront-im-
pact air bag could seriously injure or kill your
child (see “Air bag warning labels” later in this
section).
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Do not allow anyone to place their hands, legs,
or face near the front seat-mounted side-im-
pact supplemental air bags and roof-
mounted curtain side-impact supplemental
air bags on the sides of the seatback of the
front seats or near the side roof rails. Do not
allow anyone sitting in the front seats or rear
outer seats to extend their hands out of the
windows or lean against the doors.
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Air bag warning labels
Children may be severely injured or killed
when the air bags inflate if they are not prop-
erly restrained see “Child restraints” earlier in
this section.
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Never let children ride unrestrained or extend
their hands or face out of the window. Do not
attempt to hold them in your lap or arms.
When sitting in the rear seats, do not hold onto
the seatback of the front seats. If the front
seat-mounted side impact supplemental air
bags and roof-mounted curtain side-impact
supplemental air bags inflate, you may be se-
riously injured. Be especially careful with chil-
dren, who should always be properly
restrained.
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Side and curtain air bags (where fitted):
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WARNING
The front seat-mounted side-impact supple-
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SRS air bag warning label: The warning label
is located on the surface of the front pas-
senger sun visor.
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mental air bags and roof-mounted curtain
side-impact supplemental air bags ordinarily
will not inflate in the event of a front impact,
rear impact, rollover, or lower severity side col-
lision. Always wear the seat belts to help re-
duce the risk or severity of injury in accidents.
Do not use seat covers on the front seatbacks.
They may interfere with the front seat-
mounted side-impact supplemental air bag
inflations.
SRS front passenger air bag warning label:
SRS front passenger air bag warning label: The
warning label is located on the outer side of
the instrument panel (passenger side).
The seat belts, the front seat-mounted side-
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NOTE
SRS side air bag warning label: The warning
label is located on the side of the passenger
side centre pillar, and on the base of the front
seats.
impact supplemental air bags and roof-
mounted curtain side-impact supplemental
air bags are most effective when you are sit-
tingwellbackanduprightintheseat.Thefront
seat-mounted side-impact supplemental air
bags and roof-mounted curtain side-impact
supplemental air bags inflate with great force.
If you and your passengers are unrestrained,
leaning forward, sitting sideways, or out of po-
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For an overview see “Seat belts and supplemen-
tal restraint system” in the “0. Illustrated table of
contents” section.
Pre-tensioner seat belt system
The pre-tensioner seat belt system may activate
with the supplemental air bag system in certain
types of collisions.
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