Toyota Tacoma 2001, Operating Manual

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’01 Tacoma U (L/O 0009)
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2001 TACOMA (OM35766U)
In response to a severe frontal impact,
the SRS airbags work together with the
seat belts to help prevent or reduce injury
by inflating. The SRS airbags help to re-
duce injuries mainly to the driver’s or front
passenger’s head or chest directly hitting
the steering wheel or dashboard. When
the passenger airbag manual on–off switch
is in the “ON” position, the front passen-
ger airbag is activated even with no pas-
senger in the front seat.
Be sure to wear your seat belt properly.
Your vehicle is equipped with a crash
sensing and diagnostic module, which will
record the use of the seat belt restraint
system by the driver when the SRS airbag
is inflated.
CAUTION
A driver or front passenger too close
to the steering wheel or dashboard
during airbag deployment can be
killed or seriously injured. Toyota
strongly recommends that:
The driver sit as far back as pos-
sible from the steering wheel while
still maintaining control of the ve-
hicle.
The front passenger sit as far back
as possible from the dashboard.
All vehicle occupants be properly
restrained using the available seat
belts.
The passenger airbag system is
equipped with a manual on–off switch
and indicator light. Turning the passen-
ger airbag manual on–off switch clock-
wise to the “ON” position makes the
front passenger airbag system opera-
tional. Turning the passenger airbag
manual on–off switch counterclockwise
to the “OFF” position disables the front
passenger airbag system. The indicator
light on the passenger airbag manual
on–off switch will come on when the
front passenger airbag system has been
disabled.
See “Passenger airbag manual on–off
switch” in this section for detail.