Saab 2007 owner manual Airbag, Inflated airbag driver side

Airbag

WARNING

To reduce risk of injury:

•Always wear your safety belt.

•Always adjust your seat so that you are as far back as possible but still able to operate the pedals and reach the steering wheel and controls com- fortably.

•Children 12 and under or shorter than 59 inches (150 cm) should always travel in the rear seat as the car is fitted with a passenger airbag.

•Never fit a child seat in front of the pas- senger airbag.

The AIRBAG system comprises an airbag in the steering wheel, a front passenger airbag and side airbags in the front seats.

The system supplements the protection provided by the safety belts to further enhance the safety of the occupants.

If a fault is detected in the AIRBAG, the AIR BAG warning light on the main instru- ment panel will come on (see pages 61 and 37).

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Inflated airbag (driver side)

Inflation and deflation together take less than 0.1 second.

When the system is triggered by impact of a frontal crash, the airbags in the steering wheel and passenger side of the dash board are inflated, after which they deflate through vents in the back of the bags.

The entire process takes less than

0.1second – literally, faster than the blink- ing of an eye.

The driver and passenger airbags are referred to as ‘smart’ airbags. This means that the system compensates for factors such as the force of the collision.

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Note:

The sensor reacts differently depending on whether or not the front seatbelts on the driver’s and passenger sides are used. Sit- uations can therefore arise where only one of the airbags inflates.

It is also possible for only the seatbelt pre- tensioners to be activated and for the air- bags to remain uninflated.

These airbags are triggered only by moder- ate to severe frontal or near-frontal crashes. They will not be activated by minor front-end impacts, rear-end or side impacts, or by the car rolling over.