Safety Belt Pretensioners
This vehicle has safety belt pretensioners for front outboard occupants. Although the safety belt pretensioners cannot be seen, they are part of the safety belt assembly.
They can help tighten the safety belts during the early stages of a moderate to severe frontal and near frontal crash if the threshold conditions for pretensioner activation are met.
Pretensioners work only once. If the pretensioners activate in a crash, the pretensioners and probably other parts of the vehicle's safety belt system will need to be replaced.
See Replacing Safety Belt System Parts after a Crash.
See also:
Lane Departure Warning (LDW)
The vehicle may have a Lane Departure Warning (LDW)
system. Read this entire section before using the system.
WARNING:
The Lane Departure Warning (LDW) system does
not steer the vehicle and is o ...
Passenger Airbag Status Indicator
The vehicle has the passenger sensing system.
See Passenger Sensing System for
important safety information. The overhead console has
a passenger airbag status indicator.
When the vehicle is s ...
What Makes an Airbag Inflate?
In a deployment event, the sensing system sends an
electrical signal triggering a release of gas from the
inflator. Gas from the inflator fills the airbag causing the
bag to break out of the cov ...