Sensor-controlled passenger airbag status
The car determines whether the front passenger airbags should be enabled or disabled. This requires that the seat is used as Volvo intended. Follow all available recommendations about proper seating and use.
Warning
Note
NHTSA child seating recommendations
Volvo follows NHTSA recommendations and recommends that ALL children up to and including 12 years of age sit in a rear seat and be restrained in a suitable manner appropriate to their height and weight. This is strongly recommended for children in rearward-facing child restraints.
Conditions for enabled airbags
- A heavy object is placed on the seat.
- The seat is occupied by a person, whether a child or adult, weighing more than the threshold for enabling the airbag.
Conditions for disabled airbags
- The front passenger seat is unoccupied. Small and medium-sized objects placed in the seat are typically not heavy enough to affect airbag status.
- A child or small person occupies the seat, with or without a booster seat.
- A rearward-facing infant seat is installed according to the manufacturer's instructions.
- A forward-facing child restraint is installed according to the manufacturer's instructions.
The airbags will be disabled regardless of whether or not there is a child sitting in the seat or child restraint.
A symbol in the overhead console indicates that the passenger airbags are disabled and will not be deployed by the car. It is shown along with the words PASSENGER AIRBAG OFF.
Safe and correct use
Warning
- Do not place any objects that add to the total weight on the seat when it is occupied.
- Do not use the seatbelt in a way that exerts more pressure on the passenger than normal.
- The full weight of the front seat passenger should always be on the seat cushion. The passenger should never lift themselves off the seat cushion using the armrest in the door or the tunnel console, by pressing their feet on the floor, by sitting on the edge of the seat cushion or by pressing against the backrest in a way that reduces pressure on the seat cushion.
- Never wrap the seatbelt around an object on the front passenger's seat.
- Do not place any object around or under the front passenger's seat in such a way that jamming, pressing or squeezing occurs between the object and the front seat.