Subaru Outback Legacy III 3 owners manual page 77

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1-52 Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags tem is designed to determine the activa-SRS airbag after deployment is shorterThe driver’s SRS frontal airbag and front tion or deactivation condition of the frontthan the blink of an eye.passenger’s SRS frontal airbag are de- passenger’s SRS frontal airbag depend-Both when only the driver’s SRS frontalsigned to deploy in the event of an ing on the total load on the front passen-airbag deploys and the driver’s and frontaccident involving a moderate to severe ger’s seat monitored by the front passen-passenger’s SRS frontal airbags deploy,frontal collision. It is basically not designed ger’s occupant detection system weightthe driver’s and front passenger’s seatbeltto deploy in lesser frontal impacts be- sensor. For this reason, only the driver’spretensioners operate at the same time.cause the necessary protection can be SRS frontal airbag may deploy in the achieved by the seatbelt alone. Also, they eventofacollision, but this does not meanAlthough it is highly unlikely that the SRSare basically not designed to deploy in failure of the system.airbag would activate in a non-accidentside or rear impacts or in roll-over acci- If the front sub sensors inside both frontsituation, should it occur, the SRS airbagdents because deployment of only the fenders and the impact sensors in thewill deflate quickly, not obscuring visiondriver’s SRS frontal airbag or both driver’s airbag control module detect a predeter-and will not interfere with the driver’sand front passenger’s SRS frontal airbags mined amount of force during a frontalability to maintain control of the vehicle.would not help the occupant in those collision, the control module sends signalssituations. The driver’s and front passen- Whenthe SRS airbag deploys, a sudden,ger’s SRS frontal airbags are designed to to the airbag module(s) (only driver’sfairly loud inflation noise will be heard andfunction on a one-time-only basis. module or both driver’s and front passen-some smoke will be released. These ger’s modules) instructing the module(s)occurrences are a normal result of theSRS airbag deployment depends on the to inflate the SRS frontal airbag(s). Thedeployment. This smoke does not indicatelevel of force experienced in the passen- driver’s and front passenger’s SRS frontala fire in the vehicle.ger compartment during a collision. That airbags use dual stage inflators. The twolevel differs from one type of collision to inflators of each airbag are triggered eitherCAUTIONanother, and it may have no bearing on sequentially or simultaneously, dependingthe visible damage done to the vehicle ontheseverity of impact in the case of theDonottouchtheSRSairbagsystemitself. driver’s SRS frontal airbag and dependingcomponents around the steering ontheseverity of impact and the total loadwheel and dashboard with bare on the seat in the case of the fronthands right after deployment. Doing passenger’s SRS frontal airbag. Afterso can cause burns because the deployment, the SRS airbag immediatelycomponents can be very hot as a starts to deflate so that the driver’s visionresult of deployment. is not obstructed. The time required from detecting impact to the deflation of the

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