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Children who have outgrown a child restraint system should always wear the seatbelt irrespective of whether the airbag is deactivated or activated.
! Conditions in which front passenger’ s SRS frontal airbag is activated s01ah0205
The front passenger’ s SRS frontal airbag will be activated for deployment upon impact when any of the following conditions are met regarding the front passenger’ s seat.
. When the seat is occupied by an adult.
. When certain items( e. g. jug of water) are placed on the seat.
When the front passenger’ s seat is occupied by an adult, observe the following precautions. Failure to do so may lessen the load on the front passenger’ s seat, deactivating the front passenger’ s SRS frontal airbag despite the fact that the seat is occupied by an adult. This may result in personal injury.
. Do not allow the rear seat occupant to lift the front passenger’ s seat cushion using his / her feet.
. Do not place any article under the front passenger’ s seat, or squeeze any article from behind and under the seat. This may lift the seat cushion.
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. Do not squeeze any article between the front passenger’ s seat and side trim / pillar, door or center console box. This may lift the seat cushion.
! If the passenger’ s frontal airbag OFF indicator light illuminates and the ON indicator light turns off even when the front passenger’ s seat is occupied by an adult s01ah020501
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: Front passenger’ s frontal airbag OFF indicator light
This can be caused by the adult incorrectly sitting in the front passenger’ s seat.
1. Turn the ignition switch to the“ LOCK”/“ OFF” position.
2. Ask the front passenger to set the seatback to the upright position, sit up straight in the center of the seat
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cushion, correctly fasten the seatbelt, position his / her legs out forward, and adjust the seat to the rearmost position.
3. Turn the ignition switch to the“ ON” position.
If the OFF indicator remains illuminated while the ON indicator remains off, take the following actions.
1. Turn the ignition switch to the“ LOCK”/“ OFF” position.
2. Make sure that the front passenger does not use a blanket, extra seat cushion, seat cover, seat heater or massager, etc.
3. If wearing excessive layers of clothing, the front passenger should remove any unnecessary items before sitting in the front passenger’ s seat, or should sit in a rear seat.
4. Turn the ignition switch to the“ ON” position and wait 6 seconds to allow the system to complete self-checking. Following the system check, both indicator lights turn off for 2 seconds. Now, the ON indicator light should illuminate while the OFF indicator light remains off.
If the OFF indicator light still remains illuminated while the ON indicator light remains off, ask the occupant to move to
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Seat, Seatbelt and SRS Airbags
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