Owner's Manual

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necessary. The air bag system is designed to
deploy in frontal and front-angled collisions
more severe than hitting a parked vehicle (of
similar size and weight) head-on at about
28 mph (45 km/h). Because the system senses
the crash severity rather than vehicle speed,
some frontal collisions at speeds above 28 mph
(45 km/h) will not inflate the air bag.
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When the sensors activate the system, the air bags
inflate rapidly, filling with non-toxic nitrogen gas
in a fraction of a second. Immediately after
inflation, the air bags deflate by releasing the
nitrogen gas through vent holes. The whole
process takes place in a matter of seconds.
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RWARNING
Air bag system components get hot after
inflation. Do not touch them after
inflation.
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Inflated driver side air bag
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Update:Thu Sep 21 14:14:44 1995