Seat Belt Warning Systems; Front Seat Belt Pretensioner and Load Limiting Systems; Essential Safety Equipment- Page 31

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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 

4-20.

Refer to Seat Belt Warning Beep on page 

7-36.

Front 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 classification 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 

2-53).

The seat belt retractors remove slack 

quickly as the air bags are expanding. 

Any time the air bags and seat belt 

pretensioners have fired they must be 

replaced.

A system malfunction or operation 

conditions are indicated by a warning.

Refer to Warning/Indicator Lights on page 

4-20.

Refer to Air Bag/Seat Belt Pretensioner 

System Warning Beep on page 

7-35.

(With Front Passenger Occupant 

Classification System)

In addition, the pretensioner system for 

the front passenger, like the front and side 

passenger air bag, is designed to only 

deploy in accordance with the total seated 

weight on the front passenger seat.

For details, refer to the front passenger 

seat weight sensors (page 2-56).

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