Saab 9-3 M2008, Owner'S Manual

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33 Safety
The driver and passenger front airbags are
triggered by violent front-end crashes. They
are not activated by minor front-end
impacts, if the car overturns or by rear- and
side-impacts.
The car is equipped as standard with
a passenger airbag.
Note
Impact sensors react differently depending
on whether or not the front safety belts on
the driver’s and passenger sides are used.
Situations can therefore arise where only
one of the airbags inflates. It is also possible
for only the safety belt pretensioners to be
activated and for the airbags to remain unin-
flated.
If only Stage I is activated at the moment of
impact, Stage II will automatically be acti-
vated later to neutralize the gas generator in
the airbag.
When the airbag system is activated all of
the doors are unlocked while the inte-
rior/exterior lighting and the hazard warning
lights are illuminated at the same time.
Both front airbags inflated Inflated airbag (driver’s side).
Inflation and deflation of airbag takes
approx. 0.1 s
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