Kia Sportage: Air bag - advanced supplemental restraint system / Curtain air bag
❈ The actual air bags in the vehicle may differ from the illustration.
Curtain air bags are located along both sides of the roof rails above the front
and rear doors.
They are designed to help protect occupants in certain side impacts and to help
prevent them from ejecting out of the vehicle as a result of a rollover, especially
when the seatbelts are also in use.
- The curtain air bags are designed to deploy during certain side impact
collisions, depending on the crash severity impact. However, when side deployment
threshold is satisfied at front-impact, curtain air bags may deploy.
- The curtain air bags may deploy on the side of the impact.
- Also, the curtain air bags on both sides of the vehicle will deploy in
certain rollover situations.
- The curtain air bags are not designed to deploy in all side impact or
rollover situations.
Do not allow the passengers to lean their heads or bodies against the doors,
put their arms on the doors, stretch their arms out of the window or place objects
between the doors and passengers when they are seated on seats equipped with side
impact and/or curtain air bags.
✽ NOTICE
Never try to open or repair any components of the side and curtain air bag
system. This should only be done by an authorized Kia dealer.
WARNING - No attaching objects
• Do not place any objects over the air bag. Also, do not attach any objects
around the area the air bag inflates such as the door, side door glass, front and
rear pillar, roof side rail. • Do not hang hard or breakable objects on the clothes
hanger.
Why didn’t my air bag go off in a collision? (Inflation and non-inflation
conditions of the air bag)
There are many types of accidents in which the air bag would not be expected
to provide additional protection. These include rear impacts, second or third collisions
in multiple impact accidents, as well as low speed impacts.
❈ The actual air bags in the vehicle may differ from the illustration.
Your vehicle is equipped with a side air bag in each front seat. The purpose
of the air bag is to provide the vehicle ...
(1) SRS control module/ Rollover sensor
(2) Front impact sensor
(3) Side impact sensor (Front Door)
(4) Side impact sensor (C-pillar)
(5) Side impact sensor (B-pillar)
WARNING - Air bag sensors ...
Other information:
The purpose of this feature is to prevent the battery from being discharged
if the lights are left in the ON position. The system automatically shuts off
the parking lights 30 seconds after the ignition key is removed and the driver’s
door is opened and closed.
With this feature, the ...
Replacement
1.
Remove the front driveshaft.
(Refer to Driveshaft Assembly - “Front Driveshaft”)
2.
Remove the TJ joint assembly.
(Refer to Driveshaft Assembly - “TJ joint”)
3.
Rem ...