Volvo XC90 owner manual Front airbag deployment, Canada

01 Safety

Front airbags

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Front airbag deployment

•The front airbags are designed to deploy during certain frontal or front-angular col- lisions, impacts, or decelerations, depend- ing on the crash severity, angle, speed and object impacted. The airbags may also deploy in certain non-frontal collisions where rapid deceleration occurs.

•The SRS sensors, which trigger the front airbags, are designed to react to both the impact of the collision and the inertial forces generated by it, and to determine if the intensity of the collision is sufficient for the seat belt pretensioners and/or airbags to be deployed.

However, not all frontal collisions activate the front airbags.

•If the collision involves a nonrigid object (e.g., a snow drift or bush), or a rigid, fixed object at a low speed, the front airbags will not necessarily deploy.

•Front airbags do not normally deploy in a side impact collision, in a collision from the rear or in a rollover situation.

NOTE

•Deployment of front airbags occurs only one time during an accident. In a colli- sion where deployment occurs, the air- bags and seat belt pretensioners acti- vate. Some noise occurs and a small amount of powder is released. The release of the powder may appear as smoke-like matter. This is a normal characteristic and does not indicate fire.

•Volvo's front airbags use special sen- sors that are integrated with the front seat buckles. The point at which the air- bag deploys is determined by whether or not the seat belt is being used, as well as the severity of the collision.

•Collisions can occur where only one of the airbags deploys. If the impact is less severe, but severe enough to present a clear injury risk, the airbags are trig- gered at partial capacity. If the impact is more severe, the airbags are triggered at full capacity.

Customer Care Center 1 Volvo Drive

P.O. Box 914

Rockleigh, New Jersey 07647 1-800-458-1552 www.volvocars.us

In Canada

Volvo Cars of Canada Corp. National Customer Service 175 Gordon Baker Road North York, Ontario M2H 2N7 1-800-663-8255 www.volvocanada.com

•The amount of damage to the bodywork does not reliably indicate if the airbags should have deployed or not.

Should you have questions about any compo- nent in the SRS system, please contact a trained and qualified Volvo service technician or Volvo customer support:

In the USA

Volvo Cars of North America, LLC

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