Essential Safety Equipment; Front passenger air bag deactivation indicator light on/off condition chart; Condition detected by the front- Page 79

2021 Mazda CX-3 Cx 3 Owners Manual

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Front passenger air bag deactivation indicator light on/off condition chart

Condition detected by the front

passenger occupant classifica

tion system

Front passenger air

bag deactivation indi

cator light

Front passenger front

and side air bags

Front passenger seat

belt pretensioner sys

tem

Empty (Not occupied)

On

Deactivated

Deactivated

A child less than 1 year old is
seated in a child-restraint system

On

Deactivated

Deactivated

Child

*1

On or off

Deactivated or ready

Deactivated or ready

Adult

*2

Off

Ready

Ready

*

1 The occupant classification sensor may not detect a child seated on the seat, in a child-restraint system, or a

junior seat depending on the child's physical size and seated posture.

*

2 If a smaller adult sits on the front passenger seat, the sensors might detect the person as being a child

depending on the person's physique.

The curtain air bag is ready for inflating regardless of what the front passenger air bag
deactivation indicator light on/off condition chart indicates.
If the front passenger air bag deactivation indicator light does not turn on when the ignition
is switched ON and does not turn on as indicated in the front passenger air bag deactivation
indicator light on/off condition chart, do not allow an occupant to sit in the front passenger
seat and consult an Authorized Mazda Dealer as soon as possible. The system may not work
properly in an accident.

WARNING

Do not allow an occupant in the front passenger's seat to sit with a posture which makes it
difficult for the front passenger occupant classification sensor to detect the occupant
correctly:

Sitting in the front passenger's seat with a posture which makes it difficult for the front
passenger occupant classification sensor to detect the occupant correctly is dangerous. If the
front passenger occupant classification sensor cannot detect the occupant sitting on the front
passenger's seat correctly, the front passenger front and side air bags and pretensioner
system may not operate (non-deploy) or they may operate (deploy) accidentally. The front
passenger will not have the supplementary protection of the air bags or the accidental
operation (deployment) of the air bags could result in serious injury or death.
Under the following conditions, the front passenger occupant classification sensor cannot
detect a passenger sitting on the front passenger's seat correctly and the deployment/
non-deployment of the air bags cannot be controlled as indicated in the front passenger air
bag deactivation indicator light on/off condition chart. For example:

Essential Safety Equipment

SRS Air Bags

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