Seat Tarraco 2019 User Guide

General views of the vehicle
Overview (right hand drive) Open bonnet lever

General views of the vehicle
Interior view Folding the third row of seats

Safe driving
Safety
Saf e driving
Advice about driving Saf ety first
! WARNING

Safety
risk of injury. The following points cover part
of the saf et
y equipment in your SEAT 1)
:

Safe driving
as close as possible to the same level as the
t op of your head and under no cir
cumstances
bel ow eye l
e
vel. Keep the back of your neck
as close as possible to the headrest

Safety
WARNING
Risk of suffering severe head injuries If peo-
ple taller than 1.60 m trav el in the thir
d row,
they may receive severe head injuries in
the event of an accident.

Safe driving
WARNING
Incorrect use of the steering wheel adjust-
ment function and an incorrect adjustment
of the steering wheel can result in sever e or
f
atal injury.

Safety
Seat belts
The whys and wher ef
or es of
seat belts
Contr ol lamps i
It lights up red
Driver or passenger has not fastened seat belt. The control lamp i lights up t
o r
emind the
driv er t
o fast
en their seat belt.
Bef
ore starting the vehicle:

Seat belts
the front part of your vehicle and other pas-
siv e saf
ety f
eat ur
es (such as the airbag sys-
t
em) are designed to absorb the kinetic ener-
gy released in a collision. Taken together, all
these features reduce the releasing kinetic
energy and consequently, the risk of injury.
This is why it is so important to fasten seat
belts before every trip, even when "just driving
around the corner".
Ensure that your passengers wear their seat
belts as well. Accident statistics have shown
that wearing seat belts is an effective means
of substantially reducing the risk of injury and
improving the chances of survival when in-
volved in a serious accident. Furthermore,
properly worn seat belts improve the protec-
tion provided by airbags in the event of an
accident. For this reason, wearing a seat belt
is required by law in most countries.
Although your vehicle is equipped with air-
bags, the seat belts must be fastened and
worn. The front airbags, for example, are only
triggered in some cases of head-on collision.
The front airbags will not be triggered during
minor frontal or side collisions, rear-end colli-
sions, overturns or accidents in which the air-
bag trigger threshold value in the control unit
is not exceeded. Important safety instructions for
the use of seat belts

Safety
Head-on collisions and the laws of
physics Fig. 8
A driver not wearing a seat belt is thrown
f orw ar
d viol ently. Fig. 9
The unbelted passenger in the rear seat
is thr own f
orwar
d viol ently, hitting the driv
er
who is wearing a seat belt. The effects of the laws of physics in the case
of a head-on collision ar
e easy t
o expl
ain: the
moment a v ehicl
e st

arts moving, a type of en- ergy called “kinetic energy” starts acting on
both the vehicle and its passengers.
The amount of “kinetic energy” depends onthe speed of the vehicle and on the weight of
the v

ehicle and of its passengers. The higher
they are, the more energy there is to be “ab-
sorbed” in the event of an accident.
The most significant factor, however, is the
speed of the vehicle. If the speed doubles
from 25 km/h (15 mph) to 50 km/h (30 mph),
for example, the corresponding kinetic ener-
gy is multiplied by four.
Given that the passengers of the vehicle in
our example do not have their seat belts fas-
tened, in the event of a collision the entire
amount of the passengers