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Safety features of your vehicle Air bag - advanced supplemental restraint system
* The actual air bags in the vehicle may
differ from the illustration.
Side and/or curtain air bags are
designed to inflate when an impact is
detected by side collision sensors
depending on the strength, speed or
angles of impact resulting from a side
impact collision.
Also, the side and curtain air bags are
designed to inflate when a rollover is
detected by a rollover sensor.
Although the front air bags (driver’s and
front passenger’s air bags) are designed
to inflate in frontal collisions, they also
may inflate in other types of collisions if
the front impact sensors detect a suffi
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cient frontal force in another type of
impact. Side and curtain air bags are
designed to inflate in certain side impact
collisions. They may inflate in other
types of collisions where a side force is
detected by the sensors. Side air bag
and/or curtain air bags may also inflate
where rollover sensors indicate the pos
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sibility of a rollover occurring (even if
none actually occurs) or in other situa
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tions, including when the vehicle is tilted
while being towed.
Even where side and/or curtain air bags
would not provide impact protection in a
rollover, however, they will deploy to
prevent ejection of occupants, especially
those who are restrained with seat belts.
If the vehicle chassis is impacted by
bumps or objects on unpaved roads, the
air bags may deploy. Drive carefully on
unpaved roads or on surfaces not
designed for vehicle traffic to prevent
unintended air bag deployment.
Air bag non-inflation conditions
僅 In certain low-speed collisions the air
bags may not deploy. The air bags are
designed not to deploy in such cases
because they may not provide bene
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fits beyond the protection of the seat
belts in such collisions.
僅 Air bags are not designed to inflate in
rear collisions, because occupants are
moved backward by the force of the
impact. In this case, inflated air bags
would not be able to provide any
additional benefit.
OBD031202
OBD031042