Essential Safety Equipment; Seat Belt Systems; and Load Limiting - Page 26

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Essential Safety Equipment

Seat Belt Systems

 Seat Belt Warning Systems

    If it detects that the occupant seat belt 
is unfastened, the warning light or beep 
alerts the occupant.
  Refer to Warning/Indicator Lights on page 
 4-24 .
  Refer to Seat Belt Warning Beep on page 
 7-40 .

 Seat Belt Pretensioner 
and Load Limiting 
Systems

    For optimum protection, the driver and 
front passenger seat belts are equipped 
with pretensioner and load limiting 
systems. For both these systems to work 
properly you must wear the seat belt 
properly.

Pretensioners:

  When a collision is detected, the 
pretensioners deploy simultaneously with 
the air bags.
  For vehicles with the front passenger 
occupant classifi cation system, the 
pretensioners deploy simultaneously 
with the air bags when a roll-over is also 
detected.
  For deployment details, refer to the SRS 
Air Bag Deployment Criteria (page 2-48 ).
  The front seat belt retractors remove slack 
quickly as the air bags are expanding. 
Any time the air bags and seat belt 
pretensioners have fi red they must be 
replaced.
  A system malfunction or operation 
conditions are indicated by a warning.
  Refer to Warning/Indicator Lights on page 
 4-24 .
  Refer to Air Bag/Front Seat Belt 
Pretensioner System Warning Beep on 
page   7-39 .