Saab 2007 9-3 User Manual download pdf (Page 38)

38 Safety

Saab recommends that child restraints be

secured in a rear seat, including an infant

riding in a rear-facing infant seat, a child

riding in a forward-facing child seat and an

older child riding in a booster seat.

Your vehicle has a rear seat that will accom-

modate a rear-facing child restraint. A label

on your sun visor says, “Never put a rear-

facing child seat in the front.” This is

because the risk to the rear-facing child is so

great, if the airbag deploys.

The passenger sensing system is designed

to turn off the right front passenger’s frontal

airbag if:

• the right front passenger seat is unoccu-

pied

• the system determines that an infant is

present in a rear-facing infant seat

• the system determines that a small child

is present in a forward-facing child

restraint

• the system determines that a small child

is present in a booster seat

• a right front passenger takes his/her

weight off of the seat for a period of time

• the right front passenger seat is occupied

by a smaller person, such as a child who

has outgrown child restraints

• or if there is a critical problem with the

airbag system or the passenger sensing

system.

When the passenger sensing system has

turned off the passenger’s frontal airbag,

the off indicator will light and stay lit to

remind you that the airbag is off.

Saab recommends that child restraints be

secured in a rear seat,but if a child restraint

has been installed and the on indicator is lit,

turn the vehicle off. Remove the child

restraint from the vehicle and reinstall the

child restraint following the child restraint

manufacturer’s directions and refer to

Installation of child restraint using the stan-

dard safety belt on page 31.

If after reinstalling the child restraint and

restarting the vehicle, the on indicator is still

lit, check to make sure that the vehicle’s

seatback is not pressing the child restraint

into the seat cushion. If this happens,

slightly recline the vehicle’s seatback and

adjust the seat cushion if possible. Also

make sure the child restraint is not trapped

under the vehicle head restraint. If this hap-

pens, adjust the head restraint.

If the on indicator is still lit, secure the child

in the child restraint in a rear seat position in

the vehicle and check with your dealer.

WARNING

A child in a rear-facing child restraint can

be seriously injured or killed if the right

front passenger’s airbag inflates. This is

because the back of the rear-facing child

restraint would be very close to the inflat-

ing airbag.

Even though the passenger sensing

system is designed to turn off the passen-

ger’s frontal airbag if the system detects a

rear-facing child restraint, no system is

fail-safe, and no one can guarantee that

an airbag will not deploy under some

unusual circumstance, even though it is

turned off. Saab recommends that rear-

facing child restraints be secured in the

rear seat, even if the airbag is off.

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