Daewoo Kalos, User Manual

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1–24 SEATS AND OCCUPANT PROTECTION SYSTEMS
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WARNING
Children who are seated in close
proximity to a side air bag may be
at risk of serious or fatal injury if
the air bag deploys, especially if the
child’s head, neck, or chest is close
to the air bag at the time of deploy-
ment.
• Never let your child lean on the
door or close to the side air bag
module.
• Make sure that the safest place in
the vehicle for your properly
seated and restrained child is the
back seat.
How the side air bags work
Side air bags are designed to keep your
head, neck, arm, and shoulder from
slamming into the front door and win-
dow in a lateral crash.
The side air bags inflate when a sensor
detects a lateral crash of a severity suf-
ficient for the side air bag deployment.
Your side air bags are designed to
deploy in lateral collisions that
are equivalent to, or exceed the force
of a vehicle traveling at a speed of
15.5 mph (25 km/h) crashing into a
solid immovable wall.
The fact that your vehicle was involved
in a crash and the side air bags did not
inflate does not necessarily mean that
there is something wrong with your side
air bags. Side air bags are designed to
inflate in a side collision, not in front-
end, rear-end, or rollover crashes if they
don’t produce sufficient lateral impact
for the deployment of the side air bags.
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WARNING
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• Do not place objects on or near
the side air bag modules in the
outboard side of each front seats.
They can become projectiles dur-
ing inflation, causing severe in-
jury.
• Do not install accessory seat cov-
ers on the front seats. The deploy-
ment of the side air bags can be
obstructed in a collision leading to
serious injury.
• Do not lean your body part or
head on the door. The side air bag
can hit the occupants with a con-
siderable force when it deploys in
a collision leading to serious in-
jury.
• Do not install any child restraint
in the front passenger’s seat if
your vehicle is equipped with the
side air bag.
Failure to follow these precautions
can result in serious injury or even
death.