Saturn 2004 Ion - Manual (Page 56)

Air Bag Systems
This part explains the air bag systems.
Your vehicle has a frontal air bag for the driver and
another frontal air bag for the right front passenger.
Your vehicle may also have roof mounted side impact
air bags. Roof mounted side impact air bags are
available for the driver and the passenger seated directly
behind the driver and for the right front passenger
and the passenger seated directly behind that
passenger.
If your vehicle has side impact air bags, the words
AIR BAG will appear on the air bag covering on
the ceiling near the driver’s and right front passenger’s
window.
Frontal air bags are designed to help reduce the risk of
injury from the force of an inflating frontal air bag.
But these air bags must inflate very quickly to do their
job and comply with federal regulations.
Here are the most important things to know about the
air bag systems:
{ CAUTION:
You can be severely injured or killed in a crash
if you are not wearing your safety belt – even if
you have air bags. Wearing your safety belt
during a crash helps reduce your chance of
hitting things inside the vehicle or being
ejected from it. Air bags are “supplemental
restraints” to the safety belts. All air bags are
designed to work with safety belts but do not
replace them.
Frontal air bags for the driver and right front
passenger are designed to work only in
moderate to severe crashes where the front of
your vehicle hits something. They are not
designed to inflate in rollover, rear or
low-speed frontal crashes, or in many side
crashes. And, for some unrestrained
occupants, frontal air bags may provide less
protection in frontal crashes than more
forceful air bags have provided in the past.
CAUTION: (Continued)
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