Knowing your vehicle
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WARNING
•
Problems may arise if the sen-
sor installation angles are
changed due to the deforma-
tion of front bumper, body or
B, C pillar where side collision
sensors are installed. Have
•
•
Do not hit or allow any objects
to impact the locations where
are
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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air
bag
or
sensors
installed.
This may cause unexpected
air bag deployment, which
could result in serious per-
sonal injury or death.
the
vehicle
checked
and
repaired by an authorized Kia
dealer.
If the installation location or
angle of the sensors is altered
in any way, the air bags may
deploy when they should not
or they may not deploy when
they should, causing severe
injury or death.
Therefore, do not try to per-
form maintenance on or
around the air bag sensors.
Have the vehicle checked and
repaired by an authorized Kia
dealer.
•
Your
vehicle
has
been
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designed to absorb impact
and deploy the air bag(s) in
certain collisions. Installing
aftermarket bumper guards or
replacing a bumper with non-
genuine parts may adversely
affect your vehicles collision
and air bag deployment per-
formance.
Air bag inflation condition
Front air bag
Front air bags (driver’s and front pas-
senger’s air bags) are designed to
inflate when the impact is delivered
to front collision sensors depending
on the intensity, speed or angles of
impact of the front collision - general-
ly from an area a little to the left to a
little to the right of straight ahead.
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| Categories | Kia Manuals, Kia Spectra Manuals |
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| Model Year | 2009 |
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