Kia niro 2023, Owner'S Manual, Page: 108 / 440

Safety features of your vehicle
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Air bag - supplemental restraint system
WARNING
僅 Do not hit or allow any objects to
impact the locations where air bag or
sensors are installed.
This may cause unexpected air bag
deployment, which could result in
serious personal injury or death.
僅 If the installation location or angle of
the sensors is altered in any way, the
air bags may deploy when they
should not or they may not deploy
when they should, causing severe
injury or death.
Therefore, do not try to perform main
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tenance on or around the air bag sen -
sors. Have the system serviced by a
professional workshop. Kia recom
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mends to visit an authorized Kia
dealer/service partner.
僅 Problems may arise if the sensor
installation angles are changed due to
the deformation of the front bumper,
body or B pillar where side collision
sensors are installed. In this case,
have the system serviced by a profes
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sional workshop. Kia recommends to
visit an authorized Kia dealer/ service
partner.
僅 Your vehicle has been designed to
absorb impact and deploy the air
bag(s) in certain collisions.
Use only Kia Genuine Parts or those
of an equivalent standard to install
bumper guards or replace a bumper.
If not, it may adversely affect your
vehicle's collision and air bag deploy
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ment performance.
僅 If equipped with rollover sensor
If your vehicle is equipped with side
and curtain air bag, set the vehicle to
OFF or ACC position and wait for
approximately 3 minutes when the
vehicle is being towed.
The side and curtain air bag may
deploy when the vehicle is in ON posi
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tion or the vehicle is in OFF position
within approximately 3 minutes, and
the rollover sensor detects the situa
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tion as a rollover.
Air bag inflation conditions
INFORMATION
Side and curtain air bags (if equipped)
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 only in frontal collisions, they
also may inflate in other types of colli
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sions if the front impact sensors detect a
sufficient impact. Side air bags (side
and/or curtain air bags) are designed to
inflate only in side impact collisions, but
they may inflate in other collisions if the
side impact sensors detect a sufficient
impact.
For instance, side airbag and curtain air
bags may inflate if rollover sensors indi
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cate the possibility of a rollover occur
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Air bag inflation conditions
Front air bags are designed to
inflate in a frontal collision
depending on the intensity,
speed or angles of impact of
the front collision.
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.
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