Mercedes Benz CL C216 2014 owners manual page 61

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Children in the vehicle 59 Emergency Tensioning Devices, seat If the air bags are deployed, you will hear a belt force limiters bang, and a small amount of powder may also be released. Only in rare cases will the bang The seat belts are equipped with ETDs and affect your hearing. The powder that is seat belt force limiters. released generally does not constitute a The ETDs tighten the seat belts in an accident, health hazard. The 6 SRS warning lamp pulling them close against th eb ody. lights up. The ETDs do not correct incorrect seat WARNING G Safety positions or incorrectly fastened seat belts. Pyrotechnic ETDs that were activated must be The ETDs do not pull vehicle occupants back replaced. towards the backrest. For your safety, when disposing of the Seat belt force limiters, when triggered, help pyrotechnic ETDs always follow our safety to reduce the peak force exerted by the seat instructions. These are available at any belt on the vehicle occupant. authorized Mercedes-Benz Center. The seat belt force limiters for the front seats are synchronized with the front air bags. ! If the front-passenger seat is not These take on a part of the deceleration force. occupied, do not engage the seat belt Thus, the force exerted on the occupant is tongue in the buckle on the front- distributed over a greater area. passenger seat. Otherwise, the Emergency The ETDs can only be activated when: Tensioning Device could be triggered in the R event of an accident. the ignition is switched on. R the restraint systems are operational; see Automatic comfort-fit feature "SRS warning lamp" (Y page 44). R the belt tongue is engaged in the buckle on The front seat belts have an automatic each of the lap-shoulder belts in the front. comfort-install feature. The automatic R comfort-install feature reduces the retraction the front-passenger seat is occupied and force of the seat belts. This results in the belt tongue is engaged in the buckle on increased seat belt comfort. the front-passenger side. The ETDs on the seats in the rear compartment are triggered independently of Children in the vehicle the lock status of the seat belts. The ETDs are triggered depending on the type Child restraint systems and severity of an accident: Important safety notes R if, in the event of a head-on or rear-end collision, the vehicle decelerates or We recommend that all infants and children accelerates rapidly in a longitudinal be properly secured in an infant or child direction during the initial stages of the restraint system at all times while the vehicle impact is in motion. R if, in the event of a side impact, on the side The use of seat belts and infant and child opposite the impact the vehicle restraint systems is required by law in all 50 decelerates or accelerates rapidly in a states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. lateral direction territories and all Canadia np rovinces. R if, in certain situations where the vehicle Infants and children must always be seated in overturns, the system determines that it an appropriate infant or child restraint system can provide additional protection recommended for the size and weight of the Z

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