Caution – Saturn 2005 Relay User Manual

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CAUTION:

A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger’s airbag inflates. This is because
the back of the rear-facing child restraint
would be very close to the inflating airbag.

Even though the passenger sensing system is
designed to turn off the passenger’s frontal
airbag and seat-mounted side impact airbag
(if equipped) under certain conditions, no
system is fail-safe, and no one can guarantee
that an airbag will not deploy under some
unusual circumstance, even though it is turned
off. General Motors recommends that
rear-facing child restraints be secured in the
rear seat, even if the airbag is off.

The passenger sensing system is designed to turn off
the right front passenger’s airbag or airbags if:

the right front passenger seat is unoccupied

the system determines that an infant is present in a
rear-facing infant seat

the system determines that a small child is present
in a forward-facing child restraint

the system determines that a small child is present
in a booster seat

a right front passenger takes his/her weight off of
the seat for a period of time

the right front passenger seat is occupied by a
smaller person, such as a child who has outgrown
child restraints

or if there is a critical problem with the airbag
system or the passenger sensing system.

When the passenger sensing system has turned off the
passenger’s airbag or airbags, the off indicator will
light and stay lit to remind you that the airbag or airbags
are off.

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