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Essential Safety Equipment

Seat Belt Systems

Form No. 8R65-EA-03C

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Unfastening the Seat Belts

Depress the button on the buckle.

For optimum protection, the driver and 
front passenger seat belts are equipped 
with pretensioner and load limiting 
systems.
In moderate or greater frontal or near-
frontal accidents, the front air bag and 
pretensioner systems deploy 
simultaneously. The pretensioners take up 
slack in the front seat belts as the air bags 
are expanding. The seat belt pretensioner 
system will not activate if the seat belt is 
not fastened, only you can be sure it is 
worn properly. The load limiting system 
releases belt webbing in a controlled 
manner to reduce belt force on the 
occupant

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s chest.

NOTE

If a belt does not fully retract, inspect it 
for kinks and twists. If it is still not 
retracting properly, have it inspected at 
an Authorized Mazda Dealer.

Front Seat Belt 
Pretensioner and Load 
Limiting Systems

Incorrect Positioning of the Driver 
and Front Passenger Seat Belts:
Incorrect positioning of the driver 
and passenger seat belts is dangerous. 
Without proper positioning, the 
pretensioner and load limiting 
systems cannot provide adequate 
protection in an accident and this 
could result in serious injury. Wear 
seat belts only as recommended in 
this owner

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s manual.

WARNING

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