2007 Suzuki XL7 Owner's Manual - Page 50

SEATS AND RESTRAINT SYSTEMS In many crashes severe enough to inflate the airbag, windshields are broken by vehicle deformation. Additional windshield breakage may also occur from the right front passenger airbag. • Airbags are designed to inflate only once. After an airbag inflates, you will need some new parts for your airbag system. If you do not get them, the airbag system will not be there to help protect you in another crash. A new system will include airbag modules and possibly other parts. The service manual for your vehicle covers the need to replace other parts. • Your vehicle has a crash sensing and diagnostic module which records information after a crash. • Let only qualified technicians work on the airbag system. Improper service can mean that an airbag system will not work properly. See your dealer for service. United States are designed to detect the presence of a properly seated occupant and determine if the passenger's frontal airbag should be enabled (may inflate) or not. Accident statistics show that children are safer if they are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat. We recommend that child restraints be secured in a rear seat, including an infant riding in a rearfacing infant seat, a child riding in a forward-facing child seat, and an older child riding in a booster seat. There is a label on your sun visor that says, "Never put a rear-facing child seat in the front." This is because the risk to the rear-facing child is so great, if the airbag deploys. 1476572 Canada 1476529 Passenger Sensing System Your vehicle has a passenger sensing system for the right front passenger. The passenger airbag status indicator will be visible when you start your vehicle in the instrument panel. The words ON and OFF, or the symbol for on and off, will be visible during the system check. When the system check is complete, either the word ON or the word OFF, or the symbol for on or the symbol for off, will be visible. Refer to "Passenger Airbag Status Indicator" in "Warning Lights, Gages, and Indicators" in the "Instrument Panel" section. The passenger sensing system will turn off the right front passenger's frontal airbag under certain conditions. The driver's airbags are not part of the passenger sensing system. The passenger sensing system works with sensors that are part of the right front passenger's seat and safety belt. The sensors 1-39