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PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
WARNING: Airbags do not inflate
slowly or gently, and the risk of injury from
a deploying airbag is the greatest close to
the trim covering the airbag module.
WARNING: All occupants of your
vehicle, including the driver, should always
properly wear their safety belts, even when
an airbag supplemental restraint system
is provided. Failure to properly wear your
safety belt could seriously increase the risk
of injury or death.
WARNING: Always transport
children 12 years old and under in the back
seat and always properly use appropriate
child restraints. Failure to follow this could
seriously increase the risk of injury or death.
WARNING: Never place your arm
over the airbag module as a deploying
airbag can result in serious arm fractures
or other injuries.
WARNING: Airbags can kill or injure
a child in a child seat. Never place a
rear-facing child seat in front of an active
airbag. If you must use a forward-facing
child seat in the front seat, move the seat
upon which the child seat is installed all
the way back.
WARNING: Do not attempt to
service, repair, or modify the airbag
supplemental restraint systems or its fuses
as you could be seriously injured or killed.
Contact your authorized dealer as soon as
possible.
WARNING: Several airbag system
components get hot after inflation. To
avoid risk of injury, do not touch them after
inflation.
WARNING: If the airbag has
deployed, the airbag will not function again
and must be replaced immediately. If the
airbag is not replaced, the unrepaired area
will increase the risk of injury in a crash.
The airbags are a supplemental restraint
system and are designed to work with the
safety belts to help protect the driver and
right front passenger from certain upper
body injuries. Airbags do not inflate slowly;
there is a risk of injury from a deploying
airbag.
Note: You will hear a loud bang and see a
cloud of harmless powdery residue if an
airbag deploys. This is normal.
The airbags inflate and deflate rapidly
upon activation. After airbag deployment,
it is normal to notice a smoke-like, powdery
residue or smell the burnt propellant. This
may consist of cornstarch, talcum powder
(to lubricate the bag) or sodium
compounds (for example, baking soda)
that result from the combustion process
that inflates the airbag. Small amounts of
sodium hydroxide may be present which
may irritate the skin and eyes, but none of
the residue is toxic.
While the system is designed to help
reduce serious injuries, contact with a
deploying airbag may also cause abrasions
or swelling. Temporary hearing loss is also
a possibility as a result of the noise
associated with a deploying airbag.
Because airbags must inflate rapidly and
with considerable force, there is the risk of
death or serious injuries such as fractures,
facial and eye injuries or internal injuries,
particularly to occupants who are not
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Super Duty (TFE) Canada/United States of America, enUSA, Edition date: 201804, First-Printing
Supplementary Restraints System
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