driver seat adjustment AUDI RS7 SPORTBACK 2016 User Guide

Airbag system
Important information
Importance of wearing safety belts and
sitting properly
Airbags are only supplemental restraints. For
airbags to do their job, occupants must always
properly wear their safety belts and be in a prop­ er seating position.
For your safety and the safety of your passen­
gers , before driving off, always :
.,. Adjust the driver's seat and steering wheel
properly
9 page 119,
.,. Adjust the front passenger's seat properly
9 page 53,
.,. Wear safety belts properly 9 page 129 ,
.,. Always properly use the proper child restraint
to protect children
9 page 159.
In a collision, airbags must inflate within the
blink of an eye and with considerable force. The
supplemental airbags can cause injuries if the
driv er or th e front s eat passenger is not seat ed
properly. Therefore in order to help the airbag to
do its job, it is important, both as a driver and as
a passenger to si t properly at all times.
By keeping room between your body and the
steering wheel and the front of the passenger
compartment, the airbag can inflate fully and
completely and provide supplemental pro tection
in certain frontal collisions
o page 119, Correct
passenger seating positions .
For details on the
operation of the seat adjustment controls
o page 53.
It's especially important that children are proper­
ly restrained
9page 159.
There is a lot that the driver and the passengers
can and must do to help the individual safety fea­
tures installed in your Audi work together as a
system.
Proper seating position is important so that the
front airbag on the driver side can do its job. If
you have a physical impairment or condition that prevents you from sitting properly on the driver
seat with the safety belt properly fastened and
Airbag system
reaching the pedals, or if you have concerns with
regard to the function or operation of th e Ad­
vanced Airbag System, please contact your au­
thori zed Audi dealer or qualified workshop, or
call Audi Customer Relations at 1-800-822-2834
for possible modifications to your vehicle.
When the airbag system deploys, a gas generator
will fill the airbags, break open the padded cov­ ers, and inflate between the steering wheel and
the driver and between the instrument panel and
the front passenger. The airbags will deflate im­
mediately after deployment so that the front oc­
cupants can see through the windshield again
without interruption.
All of this takes place in the blink of an eye, so
fast that many people don't even realize that the
airbags have deployed. The airbags also inflate
with a great deal of force and nothing should be
in their way when they deploy. Front airbags in
combination with properly worn safety belts slow
down and limit the occupant's forward mov e­
ment . Togethe r they help to prevent the drive r
and front seat passenger from hitting parts of
the inside of the vehicle while reducing the forces
acting on the occupant during the crash . In this
way they help to reduce the risk of injury to the
head and upper body in the crash. Airbags do not
protect the arms or the lower parts of the body.
Both front airbags will not inflate in all frontal
collisions . The triggering of the airbag system de­
pends on the vehicle deceleration rate caused by
the collision and registered by the electronic con­
trol unit . If this rate is below the reference value
programmed into the control unit, the airbags
will not be triggered, even though the car may be badly damaged as a result of the collision. Vehi­
cle damage, repair costs or even the lack of vehi­
cle damage is not necessarily an indication of
whether an airbag should inflate or not.
Since the circumstances will vary considerably between one collision and another, it is not possi­
ble to define a range of vehicle speeds that will
cover every possible kind and angle of impact
that will always trigger the airbags . Important
factors include, for example, the nature (hard or
soft) of the object which the car hits, the angle of
impact, vehicle speed , etc. The front airbags will
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Fuses
Driver side cockpit fuse
assignment
Fig . 209 Driver side cockp it: fuse panel with plastic bracket
Fuse panel @ (black)
No . Equipment
Electromechanical power steering, trailer
1 hitch, ionizer, switch strip, seat heating
(rear), electromechanical parking brake
Horn, climate control system, Gateway,
2 automatic dimming interior rearv iew mir·
ror
4 Park ing aid, headlight range adjustment
5 Dynamic steering, Electron
ic Stabilization
Control (ESC)
6 Headlights
7 Adaptive cruise control
8 Front passenger's seat sensors, airbag
9 Gateway
10 Engine sound, night vision
assist, garage
door opener (Home Link), parking aid
11 Video camera
image processing
12 Headlights
13 Steering column switch module
14 Terminal 15 (luggage compartment)
250
Fuse panel
@ (black)
15 Terminal 15 (engine compartment)
16 Starter
Fuse panel @ (brown)
No. Equipment
1 Infotainment
2 Infotainment
3 F
ron t passenger's seat
5 Airbag, Elect
ronic Stabilization Control
(ESC)
6 Anti·theft alarm system
7 Electromechanical parking brake
8 Inter ior lights
9
Windshield video camera heating, light/
rain sensor
10 Lumbar support (driver's seat)
11 Driver's seat
12 Electronic stabilization control
13 Horn
14 Headlights
15 Front
seat heating
16 Dynamic steering
Fuse panel © (red)
No . Equipment
1 Clutch pedal
2 Fuel pump
3 Brake light sensor
4 AdBlue (diesel
engine)/engine acoustics
5 Rear door
6 Front
door
7 Electronic stab ilizat ion control
8 Windshield wiper motor
9 Headlight washer system
10 Interior
lighting, climate control system
11 Headlights
12 Sunroof

Safety features for occupant restraint and
protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Safety guidelines
Seat adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S2
Safety instructions Eng ine compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
for side curtain airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
for using chi ld safety seats . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
for using safety belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Monitoring the Advanced Airbag System . 149
Safety systems Warning/indicator lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Saving fuel Cylinder on demand system . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Efficiency program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Recuperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Screwdriver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Seat adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Driver's seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Fr ont passenger's seat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S3
Head restraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Safety guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Seat heating (4-zone deluxe automat ic cli-
mate control) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Seating position Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Front passenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
How to adjust the front seats . . . . . . . . . . 120
I ncorrect seat position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Occupants .. .. .. ........... .. .. .. ... 119
Rear passengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Seats Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Convenience s ide view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Correct seating position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Seat symmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Seats (number) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Seat ventilation (4-zone deluxe automatic cli­ mate control) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Selecto r lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Selector lever emergency release . . . . . . . . 106
Service and disposal
Safety belt pretensioner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Service interval display.......... .. .. .. . 216
Shifting indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Shift paddles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
~ Ship (transporting your vehicle) . . . . . . . . . 256
......
Index
Side airbags
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
How they work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
s ide ass ist
Sensor range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Side assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Adjusting the brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Cleaning the sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
switching on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
also refer to Side assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Side curtain airbags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
How they work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Ski sack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
also refer to Trunk pass -through . . . . . . . . 66
Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Socket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Sources of information about child restraints
and their use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Speed warning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Spoi ler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Sport differential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Indicator light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Star button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
START ENGINE STOP button . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Starting from a stop Hill start assist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Starting (engine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Steering Electrically adjustable steering wheel . . . . 71
Electromechanical steering .......... 184 , 0
Indicator light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 184
Manua lly adjustable steering wheel . . . . . . 71
also refer to Electromechanical steering . 184
Steering wheel Buttons. .. .... .. .. ............... .. . 23
Easy seat entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Steering wheel heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Steering wheel column Adjusting electrically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Adjusting manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Steering wheel with tiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Steps for determining correct load limit.. . 231
Stopping the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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