owners manual BMW 3 E36

owners manual BMW 3 E36 - year of production: 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 - BMW 3 E36 owners manual EN

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156 Airbags ASC+T* grammed separation points in their Automatic Stability Control plus Trac- upholstered covers. tion helps maintain stable and con- Because the inflation process must be trolled vehicle response by inhibiting virtually instantaneous, it is necessarily slip at the drive wheels. accompanied by a certain amount of The system employs special sensors to ignition and inflation noise. The gas monitor wheelspeed and relay the data which the system employs to inflate the to the system's electronic control unit, airbag is not dangerous, and the asso- which uses this information to calculate ciated smoke is quickly dissipated. slip rates at the individual wheels. 390de012 The entire process is completed within Depending on the driving situation, two one twentieth of a second. forms of remedial action can then be taken by the system: it reacts to slip- Deceleration sensors continuously page caused by large amounts of monitor the physical forces acting upon excess torque by instructing the engine the vehicle. If a frontal impact results in management system to reduce power deceleration, for which the protection output. As a supplementary measure, afforded by safety belts no longer suf- the system will also respond to an fices, the gas generators of the driver's especially pronounced tendency to- and the passenger's airbags ignite ward traction loss at either of the drive simultaneously. The passenger's air- wheels with automatic individual appli- bag is activated only when a special cation of the affected wheel's brakes. sensor indicates that the front passen- This achieves a locking action compa- ger's seat is occupied. rable with a controlled limited-slip dif- In the event of a severe side impact the ferential. This brake action is active up side airbag* is activated on the side on to 25 mph (40 km/h). From 25 mph which the impact occurred. (40 km/h) upward, a diminished brake The airbags, which are under the cover action improves the traction up to of the steering wheel, in the instrument 60 mph (100 km/h). panel or the side trim panels of the front doors, are deployed and inflated by the gas within a few milliseconds. In the process they tear or push apart the pro- Online Edition for Part No. 01 41 9 790 377 - © 07/98 BMW AG

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