Mercedes Benz 2008 c300 Manuale Utente

1 Window curtain air bag

When deployed, the window curtain air 
bags

1 are designed to provide increased 

protection for the head (but not the chest 
or arms) of the occupants on the side of 
the vehicle on which the impact occurs.

The window curtain air bags fill up the area 
indicated by the arrows.

The window curtain air bags are deployed:

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on the impacted side of the vehicle

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in impacts exceeding a preset deploy-
ment threshold

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independently of the front air bags

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regardless of whether the front-pas-
senger seat is occupied

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in certain vehicle rollovers

The side window curtain air bags are not 
deployed in impacts which do not exceed 
the system’s deployment threshold.

The Occupant Classification System (OCS) 
automatically turns the front passenger 
front air bag on or off based on the classi-
fied occupant weight category determined 
by weight sensor readings from the front 
passenger seat.

Occupants must sit properly belted in a 
position that is as upright as possible with 
their back against the seat backrest and 
feet on the floor to be correctly classified. 
If the occupant’s weight is transferred to 
another object in the vehicle (e.g. by lean-
ing on armrests), the OCS may not be able 
to properly approximate the occupant’s 
weight category.

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