KIA Sorento (2009) User Manual

Page 34

Advertising
background image

3 25

Knowing your vehicle

Pre-tensioner safety belt

Your vehicle is equipped with driver's and
front passenger's pre-tensioner safety
belts. The purpose of the pre-tensioner
is to make sure that excess slack is taken
up in certain frontal collisions. The pre-
tensioners may activate along with the
front air bags in frontal collisions based
on angle of impact, seat belt usage and
impact severity.

NOTICE

The pre-tensioner seat belt is installed at

the front seats, and the sensor is

equipped inside the buckle, where pres-

ence of passenger is sensed by the fas-

tening of the seat belts. Therefore, pre-

tensioner will not activate if the passen-

ger is not fastened with the seat belts.

Likewise, it will activate if buckled even

without a passenger in the seat. Pre-ten-

sioner seat belt is designed to activate

when the seatbelt is in use. To ensure the

pretensioner seatbelts activate in event

of a possible seatbelt buckle switch mal-

function, the system is designed to acti-

vate regardless of whether a seat belt is

in use or if no seat belt use is detected

within 6 seconds of turning the ignition

switch ON.

The seat belt pre-tensioner system con-
sists mainly of the following components.
Their locations are shown in the illustra-
tion.

SRS air bag warning light

Seatbelt pre-tensioner assembly

SRS air bag control module

SAFETY BELTS

2GHB3002

E4BLA300

2

3

1

Passenger’s
side air bag

Driver’s side air bag

Advertising