Airbags – BMW 330XI User Manual

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her head against the side airbag. It may
be difficult for a driver to ensure that
children in the rear seat will remain
properly positioned at all times and not
place their heads on or near the side
airbag. Therefore, we recommend that
the rear-seat side airbags, if installed in
the vehicle, be deactivated if children
will travel in the rear seat.
The rear seat side airbags may already
have been deactivated, either at the
time of manufacture or by a BMW cen-
ter. Labels in the door opening should
indicate the status of your rear-seat
side airbags. If you are uncertain of
their status, or wish to have the airbags
activated or deactivated, please con-
tact your BMW center.

Even when all these guidelines are fol-
lowed, there is still a small residual risk
of injuries to the face, hands and arms
occurring from airbag deployment in
isolated instances.

The ignition and inflation noise may
induce a mild temporary hearing loss in
sensitive individuals.

Corresponding airbag warning labels
are found on both sun visors.

This is the right way a child should sit in
a child restraint when rear side airbags,
see arrow, are provided.

This is the right way a larger child
should sit wearing the seat belt when
rear side airbags, see arrow, are pro-
vided.

Indicator lamp

The indicator lamp indicates the
operational status of the airbag
system with the ignition key in

position 1 or higher.

System operational:
> The indicator lamp comes on briefly

when you turn the ignition key to
position 1 or higher.

System malfunction:
> Indicator lamp does not come on or

> indicator lamp lights up continuously.

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