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Knowing your vehicle
What your air bag system
does
Driver’s air bag and front passen-
ger’s air bag are designed to supple-
ment the protection offered by the
seat belt in certain frontal collisions.
Likewise, side air bag and curtain air
bags are designed to supplement
the protection offered by the seat belt
in side collisions. seat belts are
designed to reduce the injury of the
driver or passengers in case of light
impact or collision. However, to help
reduce impact on driver or passen-
gers in a serious collision, seat belts
must also be correctly worn.
What your air bag system
does not do
The air bag system is designed to
supplement the protection offered by
the seat belt system. IT IS NOT A
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SEAT
BELT.
The importance of using
seat belts
There are four very important rea-
sons to use seat belts even with an
air bag supplemental restraint sys-
tem. They:
• help keep you in the proper posi-
tion (away from the air bag) when it
inflates.
• reduce the risk of harm in rollover,
or rear impact collisions, because
an air bag is not designed to inflate
in such situations and even a side
curtain air bag is designed to
inflate only in certain side impact
collisions.
• reduce the risk of harm in frontal or
side collisions which are not
severe enough to actuate the air
bag supplemental restraint system.
• reduce the risk of being thrown
from your vehicle.
Summary of Contents for Ceed 2006
Page 4: ...1 How to use this manual 1 2 Vehicle run in process 1 3 Introduction ...
Page 243: ...pressure OED056006R ...
Page 341: ...8 Specifications 8 2 Specifications ...
Page 346: ...9 Index ...