Owner's Manual Cadillac BLS - IFS Europe BV

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34 Safety
Airbag
WARNING
To reduce risk of injury:
• Always wear your seat 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 comfortably.
• Children shorter than 140 cm must
always travel in the rear seat as the
car has a passenger airbag.
• Never place a child seat in the front
passenger seat.
Airbag system components
• Airbag in steering wheel.
• Airbag in front of front passenger seat.
• Side airbag in side of front seat backrests.
• Inflatable curtain along long sides of
headlining (between front and rear roof
pillars).
• Seat belt pretensioner for the two front
seats.
The airbag system supplements the protection
provided by the seat belts to further
enhance the safety of occupants taller than
140 cm.
When the system is activated at the moment
of a frontal impact, the airbag inflates and
then deflates through holes in the back. The
whole operation takes roughly 0.1 second,
quicker than the blink of an eye.
The driver and passenger airbags are socalled
smart airbags. This means that the
system compensates for factors such as the
force of the collision.
When the airbag system is activated all of
the doors are unlocked while the interior/
exterior lighting and the hazard warning
lights are illuminated at the same time.
Note:
The sensor reacts differently depending
on whether or not the front seat belts on the
driver’s and passenger sides are used.
Situations can therefore arise where only
one of the airbags inflates. It is also possible
for only the seat belt pretensioners to be
activated and for the airbags to remain uninflated.
If only Stage I is activated at the moment
of impact, Stage II will automatically be activated
later to neutralise the gas generator in
the airbag.