2013 Volkswagen Golf - Safety belts (17 pages)

Model: 2013 Volkswagen Golf
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Pages: 17 pages



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Manual Description
In this section you'll find information about, what happens to passengers not wearing safety belt, safety belt retractor, pretensioner, load limiter, service and disposal belt pretensioners.

Properly worn safety belts are the single most effective means of reducing the risk serious injury, and death in a collision other accident, damage to safety belts reduces their overall effectiveness and increases the risk serious personal, injury and death whenever the vehicle being used.

Check the condition of all safety belts regularly, if a safety belt shows damage to webbing, bindings, retractors or buckles, have safety belt, replaced by an authorized Volkswagen dealer or an authorized Volkswagen Service Facility ⇒ , not wearing a safety belt or wearing an improperly positioned safety belt increases risk.

Properly worn safety belts are the single most effective means of reducing risk, serious injury and death in a collision or other accident, safety belt properly and make sure all passengers wear their safety belts properly well, the driver must always make sure that every person in the vehicle is properly seated.

Vehicle starts to move, and keeps the belts properly fastened while riding vehicle, applies even when just driving around town, make sure that everybody in your vehicle properly restrained, always secure children in the vehicle with a restraint system appropriate their age.

Always fasten safety belts correctly before driving off and make sure that all passengers, never attach the safety belt to the buckle of another seat, wrong buckle will reduce safety belt effectiveness and can cause serious personal injury, never let any objects or liquids get into the safety belt latch and prevent it working.

Never remove a safety belt while the vehicle is moving, never strap more than one person, including small children, into any single safety belt, never let children or babies ride sitting on your lap, and never place a safety belt over, never wear belts over rigid or breakable objects in or on your clothing, such.

Several layers of heavy clothing (such as a coat worn over top of sports jacket) may, interfere with proper positioning of the safety belt and reduce the overall effectiveness, never use comfort clips or devices that create slack in the shoulder belt, clips may be required for the correct use of some child restraint systems.

Safety belts offer optimum protection only when the seat backrest is upright belts, damage to safety belts reduces their overall effectiveness and increases risk serious, personal injury and death whenever the vehicle being used, never let safety belts become damaged by being caught in the door seat hardware.

Torn or frayed safety belts can tear, and damaged safety belt hardware can break an, inspect belts regularly for damage, damaged, have the belts replaced immediately with the correct replacement belts approved, by Volkswagen for your vehicle, model, model year.

Safety belts that were subject to stress in an accident and stretched must be replaced with, a correct, new safety belt, preferably by an authorized Volkswagen dealer authorized, replacement after a crash may be necessary even if a safety belt shows no visible, damaged safety belts must be replaced; they cannot be repaired.

Never try to repair a damaged safety belt yourself, have safety belts, bindings, retractors and buckles replaced by an authorized Volkswagen, dealer or authorized Volkswagen Service Facility, always keep the belts clean.

 Please first read and note the introductory information heed WARNINGS, driver and front passenger have not, fastened their safety belts, front, heavy items on front passenger seat.

Remove items from front passenger seat, when the ignition is switched on, several warning and indicator lights come on briefly function, the safety belt warning light ª comes on for 6 seconds when the ignition is switched on.