Subaru 2010 Impreza, Owner'S Manual

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Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags
!
Operation
A) Driver
’
s side
B) Passenger
’
s side
1) SRS AIRBAGs deploy as soon as a collision occurs.
2) After deployment, SRS AIRBAGs start to deflate immediately so that the driver
’
s vision is not
obstructed.
The SRS airbag can function only when
the ignition switch is in the
“
ON
”
position.
The SUBARU advanced frontal airbag
system is designed to determine the
activation or deactivation condition of the
front passenger
’
s SRS frontal airbag
depending on the total load on the front
passenger
’
s seat monitored by the front
passenger
’
s occupant detection system
weight sensor. For this reason, only the
driver
’
s SRS frontal airbag may deploy in
the event of a collision, but this does not
mean failure of the system.
If the front sub sensors and the impact
sensors in the airbag control module
detect a predetermined amount of force
during a frontal collision, the control
module sends signals to the airbag
module(s) (only driver
’
s module or both
driver
’
s and front passenger
’
s modules)
instructing the module(s) to inflate the
SRS frontal airbag(s). The driver
’
s and
front passenger
’
s SRS frontal airbags use
dual stage inflators.