Get Safety features of your vehicle -> Curtain air bag Guide for Kia Ceed SUV Second Generation (2013-2018)

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Curtain air bag (if equipped)

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Curtain air bags are located along both

sides of the roof rails above the front and

rear doors. They are designed to help

protect the heads of the front seat occu-

pants and the rear outboard seat occu-

pants in certain side impact collisions.

• Use of seat covers could reduce

or prevent the effectiveness of

the system.

• Do not install any accessories on

the side or near the side impact

air bag.

The curtain air bags are designed to

deploy during certain side impact colli-

sions, depending on the crash severity,

angle, speed and point of impact. The

curtain air bags are not designed to

deploy in all side impact situations, colli-

sions from the front or rear of the vehicle

or in most rollover situations.

• Do not place any objects over the

air bag or between the air bag

and yourself.

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• Do not place any objects (an

umbrella, bag, etc.) between the

front door and the front seat.

Such objects may become dan-

gerous projectiles and cause

injury if the supplemental side

impact air bag inflates.

• To prevent unexpected deploy-

ment of the side impact air bag

that may result in personal injury,

avoid impact to the side impact

sensor when the ignition key is

on.

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❈ The actual air bags in the vehicle may dif-

fer from the illustration.

• If the seat or seat cover is dam-

aged, we recommend that the

system be serviced by an author-

ized Kia dealer.

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WARNING

• Do not allow the passengers to

lean their heads or bodies onto

doors, put their arms on the

doors, stretch their arms out of

the window, or place objects

between the doors and passen-

gers when they are seated on

seats equipped with side and/or

curtain air bags.

• In order for side impact and cur-

tain air bags to provide the best

protection, both front seat occu-

pants and both outboard rear

occupants should sit in an

upright position with the seat

belts

properly

fastened.

Importantly, children should sit in

a proper child restraint system in

the rear seat.

• Never try to open or repair any

components of the side curtain

air bag system. We recommend

that the system be serviced by an

authorized Kia dealer.

• When children are seated in the

rear outboard seats, they must be

seated in the proper child

restraint system.

Failure to follow the above men-

tioned instructions can result in

injury or death to the vehicle occu-

pants in an accident.

Make sure to put the child

restraint system as far away from

the door side as possible, and

secure the child restraint system

in a locked position.

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Why didn’t my air bag go off in a

collision? (Inflation and non-infla-

tion conditions of the air bag)

There are many types of accidents in

which the air bag would not be expect-

ed to provide additional protection.

These include rear impacts, second or

third collisions in multiple impact

accidents, as well as low speed

impacts.

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Air bag collision sensors

(1) SRS control module

(2) Front impact sensor

(3) Side impact sensor (if equipped)

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WARNING

• Problems may arise if the sensor

installation angles are changed

due to the deformation of the

front bumper, body or B pillar and

C pillars where side collision sen-

sors are installed.We recommend

that the system be serviced by an

authorized Kia dealer.

• Do not hit or allow any objects to

impact the locations where air bag

or sensors are installed.

This may cause unexpected air

bag deployment, which could

result in serious personal injury

or death.

• 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.

• Your vehicle has been designed

to absorb impact and deploy the

air bag(s) in certain collisions.

Installing bumper guards or

replacing a bumper with non-gen-

uine parts may adversely affect

your vehicles collision and air

bag deployment performance.

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Air bag inflation conditions

Front air bags

Front air bags are designed to inflate in a

frontal collision depending on the intensi-

ty, speed or angles of impact of the front

collision.

Therefore, do not try to perform

maintenance on or around the air

bag sensors. We recommend that

the system be serviced by an

authorized Kia dealer.

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Side impact and curtain air bags

(if equipped)

Side impact and/or curtain air bags are

designed to inflate when an impact is

detected by side collision sensors

depending on the strength, speed or

angles of impact resulting from a side

impact collision.

Although the front air bags (driver’s and

front passenger’s air bags) are designed

to inflate only in frontal collisions, they

also may inflate in other types of colli-

sions if the front impact sensors detect a

sufficient impact. Side air bags (side

impact and/or curtain air bags) are

designed to inflate only in side impact

collisions, but they may inflate in other

collisions if the side impact sensors

detect a sufficient impact.

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Air bag non-inflation conditions

• In certain low-speed collisions the air

bags may not deploy. The air bags are

designed not to deploy in such cases

because they may not provide benefits

beyond the protection of the seat belts

in such collisions.

If the vehicle chassis is impacted by

bumps or objects on unimproved roads

or sidewalks, air bags may deploy. Drive

carefully on unimproved roads or on sur-

faces not designed for vehicle traffic to

prevent unintended air bag deployment.

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❈ The actual air bags in the vehicle may dif-

fer from the illustration.

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• Air bags are not designed to inflate in

rear collisions, because occupants are

moved backward by the force of the

impact. In this case, inflated air bags

would not be able to provide any addi-

tional benefit.

• Front air bags may not inflate in side

impact collisions, because occupants

move to the direction of the collision,

and thus in side impacts, frontal air bag

deployment would not provide addi-

tional occupant protection.

• In an angled collision, the force of

impact may direct the occupants in a

direction where the air bags would not

be able to provide any additional bene-

fit, and thus the sensors may not

deploy any air bags.

• However, if equipped with side impact

and curtain air bags, the air bags may

inflate depending on the intensity, vehi-

cle speed and angles of impact.

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• Just before impact, drivers often brake

heavily. Such heavy braking lowers the

front portion of the vehicle causing it to

“ride” under a vehicle with a higher

ground clearance. Air bags may not

inflate in this "under-ride" situation

because deceleration forces that are

detected by sensors may be signifi-

cantly replaced by such “under-ride”

collisions.

• Air bags may not inflate in rollover acci-

dents because the vehicle can not

detect rollover accident.

• Air bags may not inflate if the vehicle

collides with objects such as utility

poles or trees, where the point of

impact is concentrated to one area and

the full force of the impact is not deliv-

ered to the sensors.

However, side and/or curtain air bags

may inflate when the vehicle is rolled

over following (or after) side impact col-

lision.

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