BMW 7 E65 owners manual page 172

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Using the phone in your vehicle Safety notice damaged antenna can result in minor burns. For your own safety If the antenna is damaged, have it replaced Your in-car phone makes life more conve- immediately.< nient in many ways, and can even save Special environmental conditions lives in an emergency. While you should Always switch off your BMW portable consult your portable phone's separate phone in areas where blasting work is manual for a detailed description of safety being conducted with explosives. The precautions and information, we request phone signals could potentially act as a that you direct your particular attention to high-frequency transmitter and set off the following: explosions. Adjustments Always switch off your BMW portable To avoid posing a danger to yourself phone in areas where an increased explo- and other road users, never adjust the sion danger is present. This category system settings unless your vehicle is com- includes filling stations along with fuel and pletely stationary.< chemical storage depots, etc., and all areas in which the air can contain fuel, Using the phone in your vehicle chemicals or metal particles. Under these conditions, your BMW portable phone Using a hand-held portable phone to could conceivably generate sparks that make and receive calls while driving is could lead to a fire or explosion. Always now illegal in virtually every country in the observe all legal regulations governing the world. Always use your hands-free system, use of portable phones in the vicinity of Using the phone in your vehicleor stop your vehicle in an area where you filling stations, chemical factories and other will not pose a safety hazard to other road areas where an explosion potential exists. users.< Never use the BMW portable phone in air- Vehicles and portable phones craft; do not use this portable phone in hos- pitals, care centers or at other locations Do not use your phone from within a where medical equipment may be in oper- garage, or near an open hood. The air ation, such as accident sites, etc. in these areas could contain fuel vapors, Your service provider can furnish you with and the portable phone might generate more detailed information on legal regula- sparks that could result in burns. tions governing the use of your phone.< This same precaution applies to open Medical equipment luggage compartment lids on vehicles equipped for operation using natural gas or Portable phones can generate inter- hydrogen, and to all vehicles with luggage ference capable of preventing hearing compartment-mounted batteries.< aids and cardiac pacemakers from oper- Antenna ating correctly. If you or any occupant of the vehicle will be using such equipment, When using the phone, ensure that all consult a physician or the manufacturer persons in the area are at least 20 in of the equipment to determine whether (50 cm) from the antenna. Never use your it is adequately shielded against high- BMW portable phone if the antenna is dam- frequency energy.< aged. Contact between your skin and a 170 Online Edition for Part No. 01 41 0 157 197 - © 11/02 BMW AG

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