Section 16 (Passenger Protection - Airbags, Seat Belts (A3 Platform))
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- Model Application
- Seat belts
- Safety precautions
- Front seat belts, removing and installing (2-door vehicles with airbag and pyrotechnic seat belt tensioners)
- Front belt reel with tensioning unit, removing and installing (2- door)
- Front seat belts, removing and installing (4-door vehicles with airbag and pyrotechnic seat belt tensioner)
- Front belt reel with tensioning unit, removing and installing (4- door)
- Front seat belts, removing and installing (vehicles with airbag)
- Front seat belts, removing and installing (vehicles without airbag)
- Seat belt height adjustment fittings, removing and installing
- Rear seat belts, removing and installing
- Child seat restraint anchorage, front passenger seat, installing
- LATCH System "Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children", installing and retrofitting (Golf, GTI)
- LATCH System "Lower Anchors and Tethers for CHildren", installing and retrofitting (Jetta)
- Front belt tensioning unit, deploying (disposal)
- Seat belts, inspecting
- Notes
- Seat belts, checking
- Notes
- Inspection following an accident:
- Inspection without an accident:
- Example 1 : Cut, Torn Or Chafed Belt Webbing
- Example 2 : Torn Webbing Loops On Edges Of Belt Strap
- Example 3 : Burnt Spots From Cigarettes Or Similar
- Checking, inertia reel (locking effect),
- Visual inspection of belt latch
- Checking belt latch function
- Checking belt guides and latch tongues
- Checking securing parts and anchorage points
- Knee bars, removing and installing
- Airbags
- Airbag components, overview
- Airbag safety precautions
- Airbag units, replacing following an accident
- Driver-side airbag unit, removing and installing
- Steering wheel with airbag, removing and installing
- Airbag spiral spring, removing and installing
- Passenger-side airbag unit, removing and installing
- Side airbag unit, driver's and front passenger side, removing and installing
- Crash sensor for side airbag, driver's and front passenger side, removing and installing
- Airbag control module, removing and installing
- Airbag unit, deploying (disposal)
- Glovebox in knee bar (with passenger side airbag), removing and installing