Fiat 2013 Ducato 250, Owner'S Handbook Manual

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FRONT AIR BAGS
The vehicle is provided with front air bags for the
driver and the passenger.
The front driver / passenger air bags have been
designed to protect the occupants in the event of
head-on crashes of medium-high severity, by placing
the cushion between the occupant and the steering
wheel or dashboard.
Therefore non-deployment in other types of impacts
(side impacts, rear shunts, roll-overs, etc.) does not
indicate a system malfunction.
An electronic control unit causes the bag to inflate in
the event of a head-on crash.
The bag will inflate instantaneously placing itself
between the front occupants body and the
structures which could cause injury. It will deflate
immediately afterwards.
Driver and passenger front air bags are not a
replacement of but complementary to the belts,
which you are recommended to always wear, as
specified by law in Europe and most non-European
countries.
The volume of the front air bags at maximum
inflation fills most of the space between the steering
wheel and the driver and between the dashboard
and the passenger.
In the event of an impact, those not wearing a seat
belt will move forward and come into contact with
the bag which is still inflating. The protection offered
by the cushion is reduced in such a case.
Front air bags may not activate in the following
situations:
❒
frontal impacts against highly deformable objects
not involving the front surface of the vehicle (e.g.
wing collision against guard rail, etc.);
❒
jamming of the vehicle underneath other vehicles
or protective barriers (e.g. underneath a truck or
a guard rail); in this case, the bags would offer
no additional protection with respect to the seat
belt and their deployment is unnecessary. Lack
of deployment in such cases is consequently not
the sign of a fault.
WARNING
Do not apply stickers or other objects to
the steering wheel, the dashboard in
the passenger side air bag area and the seats.
Never put objects (e.g. mobile phones) on the
passenger side of the dashboard since they
could interfere with correct inflation of the
passenger air bag and also cause serious injury
to the passengers.
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