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In any particular crash, no one can say whether an airbagDual Stage Airbags should have inﬂated simply because of the damage to aIf your vehicle has frontal airbags with dual stage vehicle or because of what the repair costs were. Inﬂationdeployment, the amount of restraint will adjust according is determined by the angle of the impact and how quicklyto crash severity. Your vehicle is equipped with the vehicle slows down in frontal or near-frontal impacts.electronic frontal sensors which help the sensing system The airbag system is designed to work properly under adistinguish between a moderate and a more severe wide range of conditions, including off-road usage.frontal impact. For moderate frontal impacts, these Observe safe driving speeds, especially on roughairbags inﬂate at a level less than full deployment. For terrain. As always, wear your safety belt. See Off-Roadmore severe frontal impacts, full deployment occurs. Driving on page 4-20 for more tips on off-road driving.If the front of your vehicle goes straight into a wall that Single Stage vs. Dual Stage Airbagsdoes not move or deform, the threshold level for the reduced deployment is about 10 to 16 mph Depending on the weight of your vehicle you will have(16 to 25 km/h), and the threshold level for a full either “Single Stage Airbags” or “Dual Stage Airbags”.deployment is about 20 to 30 mph (32 to 48 km/h). Vehicles that have a passenger sensing system(The threshold level can vary, however, with speciﬁc also have dual stage airbags. If the rearview mirror invehicle design, so that it can be somewhat above your vehicle has a passenger airbag status indicatoror below this range.) printed on it, your vehicle has the passenger sensingVehicle’s with dual stage airbags are also equipped with system and therefore, it has dual stage airbags. Ifspecial sensors which enable the sensing system to the rearview mirror in your vehicle does not have amonitor the position of both the driver and passenger passenger airbag status indicator printed on it, then yourfront seats. The seat position sensor provides vehicle does not have the passenger sensing systeminformation which is used to determine if the airbags and it has single stage airbags. See Passengershould deploy at a reduced level or at full deployment. Airbag Status Indicator on page 3-36 or Passenger Sensing System on page 1-72. 1-66

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