KIA Magentis 2007 - Manual (Page 37)

Knowing your vehicle
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Pre-tensioner seat belt
(if equipped)
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.
The pre-tensioner seat belt is
equipped at the front seats, and the
sensor is equipped inside the buckle,
where presence of passenger is
sensed by the fastening of the seat
belts. Therefore, pre-tensioner will not
activate if the passenger is not fas-
tened with the seat belts. Likewise, it
will activate if buckled even without a
passenger in the seat. Pre-tensioner
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 malfunction, the system is
designed to activate regardless of
whether a seat belt is in use or if no
seat belt use is detected within 6 sec-
onds 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.
(1) SRS air bag warning light
(2) Seatbelt pre-tensioner assembly
(3) SRS air bag control module
(4) Buckle pre-tensioner assembly
SAFETY BELTS
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