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Safety features of your vehicle
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Air bag - advanced supplemental restraint system
僅 The curtain air bags may deploy on
the side of the impact or on both
sides.
僅 Also, the curtain air bags on both
sides of the vehicle will deploy in cer
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tain rollover situations.
僅 The curtain air bags are not designed
to deploy in all side impact or rollover
situations.
Do not allow the passengers to lean their
heads or bodies against the 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 impact and/or curtain air bags.
NOTICE
Never try to open or repair any compo -
nents of the side and curtain air bag sys
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tem. This should only be done by an
authorized Kia dealer.
WARNING
No attaching objects
僅 Do not place any objects over the air
bag. Also, do not attach any objects
around the area the air bag inflates
such as the door, side door glass,
front and rear pillar, roof side rail.
僅 Do not hang hard or breakable
objects on the coat hook.
Why didn’t my air bag deploy in a col
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lision? (Inflation and non-inflation
conditions of the air bag)
There are many types of accidents in
which the air bag would not be expected
to provide additional protection.
These include rear impacts, second or
third collisions in multiple impact acci
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dents, as well as low speed impacts.