Roll bar, Seat belts – Mercedes-Benz SL-Class 2007 Owners Manual User Manual

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Safety and Security

Occupant safety

Emergency tensioning device (ETD),
seat belt force limiter

The seat belts are equipped with emergen-
cy tensioning devices and belt force
limiters.

The ETD is designed to activate in the fol-
lowing cases:

in frontal or rear-end impacts exceed-
ing the system deployment threshold

if the restraint systems are operational
and functioning correctly, see

1 in-

dicator lamp (

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page 66)

in certain vehicle rollovers if the sys-
tem determines an additional degree of
protection

When activated, emergency tensioning de-
vices remove slack from the belts in such a
way that the seat belts fit more snugly
against the body. Belt force limiters reduce
the force exerted by the seat belts on oc-
cupants during a crash.

Automatic comfort-fit feature seat belt

The automatic comfort-fit feature reduces
the retracting force of the seat belts when
they are in normal use.

Roll bar

The ETDs will only activate if the seat belts

are fastened (latch plate properly inserted into
buckle).

Warning!

An emergency tensioning device (ETD) that

was activated must be replaced.

When disposing of the emergency tension-

ing device, our safety instructions must be

followed. These are available at your autho-

rized Mercedes-Benz Center.

Warning!

This vehicle is a two occupant vehicle. The

rear storage area is not intended for use by

occupants and is not equipped for properly

seating or restraining occupants. Thus this

area should never be used by any persons.

Before operating the roll bar switch make

sure that the roll bar’s path is clear and no

persons are injured by the moving roll bar

due to inattention. Raising or lowering of the

roll bar could injure someone in it’s proximi-

ty.

For your own safety, we recommend to drive

with the roll bar raised if the outside temper-

ature is below +5°F (-15°C).

If the outside temperature falls below +5°F

(-15°C), the roll bar must be raised manually us-
ing the buttons provided to avoid damaging the
hydraulics.