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Accident research shows that the safest place 
for children in a vehicle is in the rear seat.
Older children should be tightly secured with a 
safety belt, after they have outgrown a booster 
seat that is appropriate for their age, height and 
weight.

If your vehicle is equipped with rear side 
airbags, do not allow children to lean 

toward the door trim, as serious injuries could 
occur if the side airbags are deployed and chil-
dren are too close to the airbags.

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Labels in the rear door opening should indicate 
the status of your rear seat side airbags. If you 
are uncertain of their status, or wish to have the 
airbags activated or deactivated, please contact 
your BMW Sports Activity Vehicle Center.

Children under 13 years of age and chil-
dren less than 5 ft/150 cm tall should 

always ride in the rear and the restraint systems 
should be properly secured.

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Younger children should be secured in an 
appropriate child restraint system that has been 
first properly secured to the vehicle.
All rear seating positions in your vehicle meet 
the recommendations of SAE J1819, an indus-
try-recommended practice for securing child-
restraint systems in motor vehicles.

Should it become necessary to use a 
child-restraint system on the front pas-

senger seat, the airbags on the passenger side 
must be deactivated. The passenger airbag 
indicator lamp above the interior rearview mirror 
must light up continuously. Otherwise, the front 
passenger airbags remain active and there is 

considerable risk of injury to children if the air-
bags are triggered, even with a child-restraint 
system. In this case, children should be seated 
in the rear and the system should be checked at 
your BMW Sport Activity Vehicle Center.

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Never install a rearward-facing child-
restraint system in the front passenger 

seat of this vehicle if the passenger airbag is not 
deactivated. If you do so, the child could be 
severely injured when the airbag is triggered. 
Your vehicle is equipped with an airbag supple-
mental restraint system for the front passenger. 
Because the backrest on any rearward-facing 
child-restraint system – of the kind designed for 
infants under 1 year and 20 Ibs./9 kg – would be 
within the airbag's deployment range, you 
should never mount such a system in the front 
passenger seat, since the impact of the airbag 
against the child restraint's backrest could lead 
to serious or fatal injuries.

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More information on automatic deactivation of 
the front passenger airbags, refer to page

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Before installing any child-restraint system or 
child seat, read the following:

Observe the child-restraint system man-
ufacturer's instructions for selection, 

installation and use of the child-restraint sys-
tem. Otherwise the degree of protection can be 
reduced. 
After an accident, have all parts of the relevant 
vehicle safety belt system checked by a BMW 
Sports Activity Vehicle Center and replaced if 
necessary.

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Commercially-available

 

child-restraint systems 

are designed to be secured with a lap belt or 
with the lap belt portion of a combination lap/
shoulder belt. Improperly or inadequately 
installed restraint systems can increase the risk 

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