Subaru 2008 IMPREZA - Manual (Page 70)

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Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags
! Operation
A) Driver ’s side
B) Passenger ’s side
1) SRS AIRBAGs deploy as soon as a collision occurs.
2) After deployment, SRS AIRBAGs start to deflate immediately so that the driver ’s vision is not
obstructed.
The SRS airbag can function only when
the ignition switch is in the
“ON” position.
The Subaru advanced frontal airbag sys-
tem is designed to determine the activa-
tion or deactivation condition of the front
passenger
’s SRS frontal airbag depend-
ing on the total load on the front passen-
ger
’s seat monitored by the front passen-
ger ’s occupant detection system weight
sensor. For this reason, only the driver ’s
SRS frontal airbag may deploy in the
event of a collision, but this does not mean
failure of the system.
If the front sub sensors and the impact
sensors in the airbag control module
detect a predetermined amount of force
during a frontal collision, the control
module sends signals to the airbag
module(s) (only driver
’s module or both
driver ’s and front passenger’s modules)
instructing the module(s) to inflate the
SRS frontal airbag(s). The driver
’s and
front passenger
’s SRS frontal airbags use
dual stage inflators.