DANGER
Not using a child restraint, using the wrong
child restraint or improperly installing a child
restraint increases the risk of serious personal
injury and death in a collision or other emer-
gency situation.
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Children on the front seat of any car, even
with Advanced Airbags, can be seriously in-
jured or even killed when an airbag inflates.
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A child in a rearward-facing child restraint
installed on the front passenger seat will be
seriously injured and can be killed if the front
airbag inflates – even with an Advanced Air-
bag System.
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The inflating airbag will hit the child restraint
or infant carrier with great force and will
smash the child restraint and child against
the backrest, center armrest, door or roof.
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Always install rearward-facing child re-
straints on the rear seat.
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If you must install a rearward facing child re-
straint on the front passenger seat because
of exceptional circumstances, but the PAS-
SENGER AIR BAG
light does not come
on and stay on, immediately install the rear-
ward-facing child restraint at a seating posi-
tion on the rear seat and have the airbag sys-
tem inspected right away by your authorized
Volkswagen dealer or authorized Volkswagen
Service Facility.
●
Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child restraint in a vehicle. See
→
chapter
Safety belts
,
→
chapter
Airbag sys-
tem
, and
WARNING
An improperly installed child restraint can in-
terfere with the airbag as it deploys and seri-
ously injure or even kill the child – even with an
Advanced Airbag System.
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If exceptional circumstances require the use
of a forward-facing child restraint on the
front passenger's seat, the child's safety and
well-being require the following special pre-
cautions to be taken:
–
Forward-facing child restraints installed
on the front passenger seat may interfere
with the deployment of the airbag and
cause serious personal injury to the child.
–
Always make sure that the forward-facing
seat has been designed and certified by its
manufacturer for use on a front passenger
seat with a front and side airbag.
–
Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instructions provided with the child re-
straint or carrier.
–
Never install a child restraint without a
properly attached top tether strap if the
child restraint manufacturer's instructions
require the top tether strap for proper in-
stallation, or if required by law. For exam-
ple, the use of a top tether strap for for-
ward-facing child restraints is required by
law in Canada.
–
Never put the forward-facing child re-
straint up against or very near the instru-
ment panel.
–
Always set the safety belt upper anchor-
age to the adjustment position that per-
mits proper installation in accordance with
the child restraint manufacturer's instruc-
tions.
–
Always move the front passenger seat to
the highest position in the up and down
adjustment range and move it back to the
rearmost position in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment range, as far away from the
airbag as possible before installing the for-
ward-facing child restraint.
–
Always make sure that the safety belt up-
per anchorage is behind the child restraint
and not next to or in front of the child re-
straint so that the safety belt will be prop-
erly positioned.
–
Always make sure that nothing is in the
way that prevents the front passenger's
seat from being moved to the rearmost
position in its fore and aft adjustment
range.
–
Always make sure that the backrest is in
the upright position.
–
Never place objects on the seat (such as a
laptop, CD player, or electronic games de-
vice). These may influence the electrical
capacitance measured by the capacitive
passenger detection system and can also
fly around in an accident and cause serious
personal injury.
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