Front airbags – FIAT Linea User Manual

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CORRECT USE OF THE

CAR

ARNING

LIGHTS AND MESSAGES

IN AN

EMERGENCY

CAR

MAINTENANCE

TECHNICAL

SPECIFICA

TIONS

INDEX

DASHBOARD AND CONTROLS

SAFETY DEVICES

FRONT AIRBAGS

The car is provided with front airbags for
the driver and the passenger.

The front driver / passenger air bags have
been designed to protect the occupants in
the event of head-on crashes of medium-
high severity, by placing the cushion be-
tween the occupant and the steering
wheel or dashboard.

Front air bags are designed to protect
car’s occupants in front crashes and there-
fore non-activation in other types of col-
lisions (side collisions, rear shunts, roll-
overs, etc.) is not a system malfunction.

An electronic control unit will make the
bag inflate in the event of a frontal crash.
The bag will inflate instantaneously placing
itself between the front occupant’s body
and the structures which could cause in-
jury. It will deflate immediately afterwards.

Driver and passenger front airbags are not
a replacement of but complementary to
the belts, which you are recommended to
always wear, as specified by law in Europe
and most non-European countries.

The volume of front air bags at max. in-
flation fills most of the space between the
steering wheel and the driver and between
the dashboard and the passenger.

PASSENGER SEAT COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS ON
UNIVERSAL ISOFIX CHILD’S SEAT USE

The table below, according to EKE 16 European Directive, shows the different instal-
lation possibilities of Isofix restraint systems on seats fitted with Universal Isofix fas-
teners.

Weight group

Orientation

Class

Isofix position

child seat

Isofix size

rear side

Group 0

0 to 10 kg

Group 0+

0 to 13 kg

Group 1
to 9 up to 18 kg

IUF: suitable for Isofix child restraint systems to be set facing forwards, universal class

(fitted with third upper fastener), approved for the weight group.

IL: suitable for special child restraint systems. Isofix type suitable and tested for this type

of car. The seat may be installed by moving the front seat forward.

IUF

Facing backwards

Facing forwards

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