Chevrolet 2004 Malibu, Owner'S Manual

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Air Bag Systems
This part explains the air bag systems.
Your vehicle has air bags – one air bag for the driver and
another air bag for the right front passenger. Your vehicle
may also have roof-mounted side impact air bags; one for
the driver and the passenger directly behind the driver
and one for the right front passenger and the person
seated directly behind that passenger.
Air bags are designed to help reduce the risk of injury
from the force of an inflating air bag. But these air bags
must inflate very quickly to do their job and comply
with federal regulations.
Here are the most important things to know about the
air bag system:
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CAUTION:
You can be severely injured or killed in a crash
if you are not wearing your safety belt – even if
you have air bags. Wearing your safety belt
during a crash helps reduce your chance of
hitting things inside the vehicle or being
ejected from it.
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CAUTION: (Continued)
Air bags are “supplemental restraints” to the
safety belts. All air bags are designed to work
with safety belts but do not replace them.
Frontal air bags for the driver and right front
passenger are designed to work only in
moderate to severe crashes where the front of
your vehicle hits something. They are not
designed to inflate in rollover, rear or
low-speed frontal crashes, or in many side
crashes. And, for some unrestrained
occupants, frontal air bags may provide less
protection in frontal crashes than more
forceful air bags have provided in the past.
The roof-mounted side impact air bags are
designed to inflate only in moderate to severe
crashes where something hits the side of your
vehicle. They are not designed to inflate in
frontal, in rollover or in rear crashes. Everyone
in your vehicle should wear a safety belt
properly — whether or not there is an air bag
for that person.
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