Chevrolet 2007 Monte Carlo, Owner'S Manual

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Passenger Airbag Status Indicator
Your vehicle has the passenger sensing system.
Your overhead console has a passenger airbag
status indicator.
When the ignition key is turned to RUN or START,
the passenger airbag status indicator will light
ON and OFF, or the symbol for on and off,
for several seconds as a system check. If you use
remote start to start your vehicle from a distance
(if equipped), you may not see the system
check. Then, after several more seconds, the
status indicator will light either ON or OFF,
or either the on or off symbol to let you know the
status of the right front passenger’s frontal
airbag and side impact airbag (if equipped).
Your vehicle has a rear seat that will accommodate
a rear-facing child restraint. A label on your sun
visor says, “Never put a rear-facing child seat
in the front.” This is because the risk to the
rear-facing child is so great, if the airbags deploy.
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CAUTION:
Even though the passenger sensing
system is designed to turn off the right
front passenger’s frontal airbag and side
impact airbag (if equipped) if the system
detects a rear-facing child restraint, no
system is fail-safe, and no one can
guarantee that an airbag will not deploy
under some unusual circumstance, even
though it is turned off. We recommend
that rear-facing child restraints be
transported in vehicles with a rear seat
that will accommodate a rear-facing child
restraint, whenever possible.
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