Kia Cerato 2022, Owner'S Manual, Page: 74 / 622

Safety features of your vehicle
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Air bag - supplemental restraint system
* The actual air bags in the vehicle may
differ from the illustration.
Your vehicle is equipped with a side air
bag in each front seat.
The purpose of the air bag is to provide
the vehicle's driver and/or the front pas
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senger with additional protection than
that offered by the seat belt alone.
The side air bags are designed to deploy
only during certain side-impact colli
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sions, depending on the crash severity,
angle, speed and point of impact. How
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ever, when side deployment threshold is
satisfied at front-impact, side air bags
may deploy. The side air bags are not
designed to deploy in all side impact or
rollover situations.
The side air bags may deploy on the side
of the impact or on both side.
CAUTION
if equipped with rollover sensor
僅 Also, both side of the side air bags
deploy in certain rollover situations.
僅 The side air bag may deploy when the
rollover sensor detects the situation
as a rollover.
WARNING
Do not allow the passengers to lean their
heads or bodies onto doors, put their
arms on the doors, stretch their arms out
of the window, or place objects between
the doors and passengers when they are
seated on seats equipped with side and/
or curtain air bags.
WARNING
僅 The side air bag is supplemental to
the driver's and the passenger's seat
belt systems and is not a substitute
for them. Therefore your seat belts
must be worn at all times whilst the
vehicle is in motion. The air bags
deploy only in certain side impact or
rollover* conditions severe enough to
cause significant injury to the vehicle
occupants.
僅 For best protection from the side air
bag system and to avoid being injured
by the deploying side air bag, both
front seat occupants should sit in an
upright position with the seat belt
properly fastened. The driver's hands
should be placed on the steering
wheel at the 9:00 and 3:00 positions.
The passenger's arms and hands
should be placed on their laps.
僅 Do not use any accessory seat covers.
僅 Use of seat covers could reduce or
prevent the effectiveness of the sys
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tem.
僅 To prevent unexpected deployment
of the side air bag that may result in
personal injury, avoid impact to the
side impact sensor when the ignition
switch or the ENGINE START/STOP
button is in the ON position.
OBD031201