2011 Mercedes CL-Class Owner's Manual - Page 46

44 Occupant safety belts regardless of whether your vehicle is equipped with air bags or not. It is important for your safety and that of your passenger to have deployed air bags replaced and to have any malfunctioning air bags repaired. This will help to make sure the air bags will continue to provide supplemental crash protection for occupants. detects high vehicle deceleration in a longitudinal direction. Your vehicle has adaptive, two-stage front air bags. In the event of a collision, the air bag control unit evaluates the vehicle deceleration. When the first deployment threshold is reached, the front air bag is filled with enough propellant gas to reduce the risk of injuries. The front air bag is fully deployed if a second deployment threshold is exceeded within a few milliseconds. The deployment of the front-passenger air bag is also influenced by the weight category of the front passenger, which is determined by the Occupant Classification System (OCS) (Y page 46). The lighter the passenger side occupant, the higher the vehicle deceleration rate required (predicted at the start of the impact) for second stage inflation of the front-passenger front air bag. In the second stage, the front air bags are inflated with the maximum amount of propellant gas available. The front air bags will not deploy in impacts with vehicle deceleration or acceleration rates which do not exceed the system's preset deployment thresholds for vehicle deceleration or acceleration. You will then be protected by the seat belt. The front-passenger air bag will only deploy if: Rthe Safety Front air bags G Warning Observe "Important safety notes" (Y page 42). The front air bags increase protection for the driver's and front-passenger's head and chest. : Driver's air bag ; Front-passenger air bag = Knee bag Driver's air bag : deploys in front of the steering wheel; front-passenger air bag ; deploys in front of and above the glove box. They are deployed: Rin Rif the event of certain frontal impacts the system determines that air bag deployment can offer additional protection to that provided by the seat belt Rif the seat belt is fastened Rindependently of other air bags in the vehicle If the vehicle overturns, the front air bags are generally not deployed unless the system system, based on the OCS weight sensor readings, detects that the frontpassenger seat is occupied. Rthe 42 indicator lamp in the center console is not lit, (Y page 46). Rthe impact exceeds a preset deployment threshold. Driver's knee bag G Warning Observe "Important safety notes" (Y page 42).