Air Bag System in the Kia Cars

What your airbag system does not do

The air bag system in a Kia Dealership Houston is designed to supplement the protection offered by the safety belt system. It is not a substitute for the safety belt.

The importance of using safety belts

There are four very important reasons to use safety belts even with an airbag supplemental restraint system. They help keep you in the proper position (away from the airbag) when it inflates. Reduce the risk of harm in rollover, side impact (vehicles not equipped with side and curtain airbags) or rear impact collisions, because an airbag is not designed to inflate in such situations and even a side curtain airbag is designed to inflate only in certain side impact collisions. They reduce the risk of harm in frontal or side collisions which are not severe enough to actuate the airbag supplemental restraint system. They reduce the risk of being ejected from your car.

Your Kia vehicle’s Supplemental Restraint System Control Module is equipped with a recording device that may record the use or status of the safety belt restraint system by the driver and front passenger in certain collisions.

Airbags & safety belts

Even in Kia vehicles with air bags, you and your passengers must always wear the safety belts provided in order to minimize the risk and severity of injury in the event of a collision or rollover. Always wear your safety belt. It can help keep you away from the air bags during heavy braking just before a collision.

If occupants in a Used autos for sale are not wearing safety belts or correctly seated, they cannot be fully protected, and thus face a greater risk of serious injury or death. Driver’s and front passenger’s airbag are designed to inflate only in certain frontal collision and side and curtain airbags are designed to inflate in certain side impacts. Frontal airbags are not designed to provide protection in side impacts, rear impacts, rollovers, or less severe frontal collisions. They will not provide protection from later impacts in a multi-impact collision.

The SRS in a car uses a collection of sensors to gather information about the driver’s and front passenger’s seat position, the driver’s and front passenger’s safety belt usage and impact severity.

The driver's and front passenger's seat position sensors, which are installed on the seat track let the airbag control module, know where the seats are positioned. Similarly, the safety belt usage sensors measure if the driver and front passenger’s safety belts are fastened. These sensors in the car provide the ability to control the SRS deployment based on how close the driver’s seat in the vehicle is to the steering wheel, how close the passenger’s seat is to the instrument panel, whether or not the safety belts are fastened, and the severity of the impact.

Modification to the seat structure can damage the Kia vehicle’s seat position sensor and cause the airbag to deploy at a different level than should be provided. Do not place any objects underneath the front seats since they could damage the seat position sensor or interfere with the occupant classification system.