Subaru Forester Manuals 2012 Forester Owner's Manual | Page 78

1-52 Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags the SRS curtain airbag on the impacted side to inflate. If the rollover sensor detects rollover of the vehicle, the control module inflates the curtain airbags. After the deployment, the SRS side airbag immediately starts to deflate. The time required from detection of an impact to deflation of an SRS side airbag after deployment is shorter than the blink of an eye. The SRS curtain airbags remain inflated for a while following deployment then slowly deflates. The SRS side airbag and SRS curtain airbags deploy even when no one occupies the seat on the side on which an impact is applied. When the SRS side airbag and SRS curtain airbags deploy, a sudden, fairly loud inflation noise will be heard and some smoke will be released. These occurrences are a normal result of the deployment. This smoke does not indicate a fire in the v V