2006 Mercedes C-Class Owner's Manual - Page 68

Safety and Security Occupant safety Front air bags In addition, improper repair work on the SRS creates a risk of rendering the SRS inoperative or causing unintended air bag deployment. Work on the SRS must therefore only be performed by qualified technicians. Contact an authorized Mercedes-Benz Center. For your protection and the protection of others, when scrapping the air bag unit or emergency tensioning device, our safety instructions must be followed. These instructions are available from your authorized Mercedes-Benz Center. Given the considerable deployment speed, required inflation volume, and the textile structure of the air bags, there is the possibility of abrasions or other, potentially more serious injuries resulting from air bag deployment. i The front air bags in this vehicle have been designed to inflate in two stages. This allows the air bag to have different rates of inflation that are based on the rate of relevant vehicle deceleration as assessed by the air bag control unit. On the front passenger side, the front air bag deployment is additionally influenced by the passenger's weight category as identified by the Occupant Classification System (OCS) ( page 77). The lighter the front passenger side occupant, the higher the vehicle deceleration rate required for the second stage inflation of the air bag. 1 Driver's air bag 2 Passenger front air bag Driver and front passenger air bags are deployed in the event of certain frontal impacts if impact exceeds a preset deployment threshold independently of the front side impact air bags and/or rear side impact air bags* When you sell your vehicle we strongly urge you to give notice to the subsequent owner that it is equipped with an SRS by alerting them to the applicable section in the Operator's Manual. 67