Seat Ibiza 2020 Owner's Guide

Seat belts
How to properly adjust your
seat belt Fast
ening and unfastening the seat
belt Fig. 10
Insert the latch plate of the seat belt
int o the buckl

e. Fig. 11
Release the seat belt

Safety
Correct seat belt position Fig. 12
Correct seat belt and headrest posi-
tions, vie w
ed from front and the side. Fig. 13
Position of seat belt during pregnancy. Seat belts offer their maximum protection in
the e
v

ent of an accident and reduce the risk
of sustaining severe or fatal injuries only when
they are properly positioned. Furthermore, if
the webbing is correctly positioned, the seat belt will hold the vehicle occupants in the op-
timum position to ensur

e the airbag provides
the maximum protection. The seat belt must
therefore always be worn and the webbing
correctly positioned.
Incorrectly worn seat belts can cause severe
or even fatal injuries ››› page 13, Correct sit-
ting position of vehicle occupants.

Seat belts
belt webbing, contact a specialised work-
shop f
or help with any special de
vices to
ensure the optimum protection of the seat
belt and airbag. SEAT recommends taking
your car in for technical service. Seat belt tensioners
Ho w the seat belt t

ensioner worksThe seat belts for the front seats and the side
r
ear seats 1)
ar

e equipped with belt tensioners.
The belt tensioners are activated by sensors,
although only in severe head-on, lateral and
rear-end collisions. This retracts and tightens
the seat belts, reducing the forward motion of
the occupants.
The belt pre-tensioners work in combination
with the airbag system. In case of overturn,
the pre-tensioners do not activate unless the
head airbags are deployed. Note

Safety
Airbag system
Brief intr oduction
Why is it so impor
tant to wear a
seat belt and to sit correctly? For the inflating airbags to achieve the best
pr
ot

ection, the seat belt must always be worn
properly and the correct sitting position must
be assumed.
The airbag system is not a substitute for seat
belts, but it is an integral part of the vehicle's
overall passive safety system. Please bear in
mind that the airbag system can only work
effectively when the vehicle occupants are
wearing their seat belts correctly and have
adjusted the headrests properly. Therefore, it
is most important to properly wear the seat
belts at all times, not only because this is re-
quired by law in most countries, but also for
your safety ››› page 16, The whys and
wherefores of seat belts.
The airbag inflates in a matter of seconds, so
if you are not properly seated when the air-
bag is triggered, you may sustain fatal inju-
ries. Therefore, it is essential that all vehicle
occupants assume a correct sitting position
while travelling.
Sharp braking before an accident may cause
a passenger not wearing a seat belt to be thrown forward into the area of the deploying
airbag. In this case
, the infl

ating airbag may
inflict critical or fatal injuries on the occupant.
This also applies to children.
Always maintain the greatest possible dis-
tance between yourself and the front airbag.
This way, the front airbags can completely
deploy when triggered, providing their maxi-
mum protection.
The most important factors for triggering the
airbag are the type of accident, the angle of
impact and the vehicle speed.
Whether or not the airbags are triggered de-
pends primarily on the vehicle deceleration
rate resulting from the collision and detected
by the control unit. If the vehicle deceleration
occurring during the collision and measured
by the control unit remains below the speci-
fied reference values, the front, side and/or
head-protection airbags will not be triggered.
Take into account that the visible damage in
a vehicle involved in an accident, no matter
how serious, is not a determining factor for
the airbags to have been triggered. WARNING

Airbag system
The airbag system operation is monitored
el ectr
onically. The airbag control lamp will il-
luminate for a few seconds every time the
ignition is switched on (self-diagnosis).
There is a fault in the system if the control
lamp T:

Safety
Operation of the airbags Airbag syst em contr
ol lampsT
It lights up on the combi-instru-
ment
Fault in the airbag system and seat belt tensioners .
Have the syst
em checked immediately by a special-
ised workshop.  
It lights up on the dash panel
Fault in the airbag system.
Hav e the syst

em checked immediately by a special-
ised workshop.
Front passenger front airbag deactivated.
Check if the airbag shoul d be k

ept deactivated x
It lights up on the dash panel
Front passenger front airbag activated.
The control l
amp turns off automatically 60 seconds
after the ignition is switched on Several warning and control lamps light up
f
or a f

ew seconds when the ignition is switch-
ed on, signalling that the function is being
verified. They will switch off after a few sec-
onds.
If the airbag and seat belt tensioner system
control lamp T remains on or flashes, it indi-
cates a malfunction in the airbag and seat
belt tensioner system ››› . Have the systemchecked immediately by a specialised work-
shop
.
If the fr

ont passenger airbag is deactivated,
the warning lamp      re-
mains lit on the dash panel to remind you that
the airbag is deactivated. If, with the front
passenger airbag deactivated, this lamp
does not remain lit or if it is lit along with the
control lamp T on the instrument panel,
there is a fault in the airbag system ››› . If
the contr ol l

amp is flashing, there is a fault in
the disabling of the airbag system ››› . Have
the syst em check

ed immediately by a speci-
alised workshop. WARNING
In the event of a fault in the airbag and seat
belt t ensioner syst

em, the airbags and seat
belts may not trigger correctly, may fail to
trigger or may even trigger unexpectedly.

Airbag system
Front airbags Fig. 14
Driver airbag located in steering
wheel . Fig. 15
Front passenger airbag located in dash
panel . The front airbag for the driver is located in the
st
eering wheel
›
›› Fig. 14
and the airbag for
the front passenger is located in the dash
panel ››› Fig. 15
. Airbags are identified by the
word “AIRBAG”.
When the driver and front passenger airbags
are deployed, the covers remain attached to
the steering wheel and dashboard, respec-
tively ››› Fig. 14

››› Fig. 15
.
In conjunction with the seat belts, the front
airbag system gives the front occupants ad- ditional protection for the head and chest in
the ev

ent of a severe frontal collision ››› .
Their special design all o
ws the controlled es-
cape of the propellant gas when an occu-
pant puts pressure on the bag. Thus, the
head and chest are protected by the airbag.
After the collision, the airbag deflates suffi-
ciently to allow visibility. WARNING

Safety
Activate and deactivate front pas-
senger fr ont airbag*Fig. 16
Switch for activating and deactivating
the fr ont passenger airbag. Fig. 17
Central part of the dashboard: control
l amp f
or the deactivation of the front passen-
ger front airbag. Deactivate the front passenger front airbag
only if you hav
e t

o use a rear-facing child
seat in the front passenger seat. SEAT recommends fitting the child seat in the
rear seat t

o avoid having to deactivate the
front passenger airbag.
When the front passenger airbag is deacti-
vated, this means that only the front passen-
ger front airbag is deactivated. All the other
airbags in the vehicle remain activated.
Deactivate and activate the front passen-
ger front airbag

Airbag system
Side airbags* Fig. 18
Side airbag in driver

Safety
units must be repaired immediately by a
specialised w
orkshop
.