VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 2003 Owners Manual

SAFETY FIRST
Fastening the safety
tender
To use the safety extender. in sert the tongue of the extender (2 )
grasp tongue of the safety (4 ) and in a continuous tion across your chest and
tongue (4 ) into the
Make sure the safety or the extender is
not twisted .
to check!
A -Front edge of
safety
tion.
Attaching the safety
duce safety effectiveness and
cause injury.
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Airbag system
Your
out of position or too
for the driver and
front seat passenger have switches that
the airbag if the safety
the safety
higher rate of
that an air­bag
at the position where the safety is not being used.
For that reason,
are there to offer
protection in those accidents in which air­
bags
are not supposed to or when
they have
is part of the
Therefore. wear your safety
pages 3 to 13.
the airbag system is designed to
reduce the
of serious injuries, it
can cause bruising, and minor
abras ions.

or have on the seat become
dangerous
When the system is activated, fine dust is This is
This dust is made up
The fine dust created when air­
bags deploy can cause breathing problems for people with a history of asthma or other breathing
conditions.
within a force.
The airbags
times. By keeping room
between your body and the front
of the
and
page
Booklet 3. 1, for
be chapter
receive serious or fatal injuries from the airbag if you are up against it or too close to it when it
inflates.
Always read and heed

SAFETY FIRST
ride in the rear seat.
B45-421K
Adjusting the driver's seat
For see
We recommend that you adjust the driver's
seat as follows:
- adjust the seat in fore and aft direction
so
that you can push the
keeping your knee
-adjust the steering
and chapter Booklet 3. 1.
-the distance from the center of your
breastbone to the center of the airbag
cover on the steering
must be at least inches (25 em) or more. See
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SAFETY
smash the
child seat and
ommend that children alway s sit in the back
seat. See
require that the following special
tions be taken :
see in this
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Front airbags
The airbag for the driver is
in the instrument
marked with See
is very important to remember that front
airbags
in some accidents in
which the is high
enough to activate the airbags.
Front airbags are not activated ...
if th e igni tion is swi tched off
in s ide
in rear-end
in
in certain fron­damage, repair costs
or even the
damage is not
provide protection for the ch est and face of the driv­
er
and the front seat passenger when ...
safety
the seats have been positioned so that
the occupant is
seated as far as from the airbag
and the head restraints have been prop­
part of the
body.
Safety
s e e next p ages.
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How the front airbag system works
Both front airbags in some fron­
not in sions in which
cover every
of impact, since the circumstances vary
factors
rate
caused by the collision and registered by
the unit.
programmed into the unit. the airbags
with a propellant gas. break open the
padded covers, and between the
steering
of an
so fast that many don't even that the airbags have
be in their way when
they
airbags in combination with
worn safety down and
so that the front occupants can see through the
This is

that is struck in a side The ou tboard
side
of each front backrest is marke d w ith the word
The side airbags in some side
if the igni tion is switched off
in
in which
erat ion is not high enough
in rear
in
the
order to assure this additional protection,
the side airbag
must
is not possible to define an airbag trigger ­
ing range that cover every poss ible
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