Audi Q5: Important safety instructions on monitoring the Advanced Airbag System
Audi Q5 Type 8R (2008 - 2017) Owner's Manual / Safety / Airbag system / Important safety instructions on monitoring the Advanced Airbag System
WARNING
An airbag system that is not functioning properly cannot provide supplemental protection in a frontal crash.
- If the airbag indicator light comes when the vehicle is being used, have the system inspected immediately by your authorized Audi dealer. It is possible that the airbag will inflate when it is not supposed to, or will not inflate when it should.
WARNING
If the front airbag inflates, a child without a child restraint, in a rearward-facing child safety seat or in a forward-facing child restraint that has not been properly installed will be seriously injured and can be killed.
- Even though your vehicle is equipped with an Advanced Airbag System, make certain that all children, especially 12 years and younger, always ride on the back seat properly restrained for their age and size.
- Always install forward or rear-facing child safety seats on the rear seat - even with an Advanced Airbag System.
- If you must install a rearward-facing child safety seat on the front passenger seat because of exceptional circumstances and the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not appear and stay on, immediately install the rear-facing child safety seat in a rear seating position and have the airbag system inspected by your authorized Audi dealer.
- A tight tether or other strap on a rearward-facing child restraint attached to the front passenger seat can put too much pressure on the weight-sensing mat in the seat and register more weight than is actually on the seat. The heavier weight registered can make the system work as though an adult were on the seat and deploy the Advanced Airbag when it must be suppressed causing serious or even fatal injury to the child.
- If, in exceptional circumstances, you must install a
forward-facing child restraint on the front passenger seat, always move the
seat into its rearmost position in the seat's fore and aft adjustment range,
as far away from the airbag as possible. The backrest must be adjusted to an
upright position.
Make sure that the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light comes on and stays on all the time whenever the ignition is switched on.
WARNING
- If the PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF light does not go out when an adult is sitting on the front passenger seat after taking the steps described above, make sure the adult is properly seated and restrained at one of the rear seating positions.
- Have the airbag system inspected by your authorized Audi dealer before transporting anyone on the front passenger seat.
Tips
If the weight-sensing mat in the front passenger seat detects an empty seat, the front airbag on the passenger side will be turned off, and PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF will stay on.
