Volkswagen Golf GTI 2016, Owner'S Manual

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Standard (CMVSS) 208 applicable at the time your vehicle was
manufactured. The airbag for the driver is in the steering wheel hub
→ Fig. 68 and the airbag for the front passenger is in the
instrument panel → Fig. 69 . The general location of the airbags is
marked AIRBAG.
The safety belts for the front seating positions have safety belt
pretensioners which help take up slack in the belts. The airbag
control unit also activates the belt pretensioners → Airbags and how
they work .
The safety belts for the front and rear outboard seating positions
also have belt load limiters to reduce the forces acting on a body
during an accident.
The areas marked in red (dotted lines) → Fig. 68 and → Fig. 69
indicate the airbag deployment zone. Never place or attach
accessories or other objects (such as cup holders, telephone
brackets, note pads, navigation systems, large, heavy or bulky
objects) on the doors, on the windshield, over or near the area
marked in red (dotted lines).
Front airbags will not deploy:
if the ignition is switched off when a crash occurs,