BMW 2004 X3 3.0i SAV Manual Do Proprietário

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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.

A child sitting in the rear seat and not 
properly restrained may place his or 

her head on or near the airbag, if so 
equipped. For example, a child — even 
though belted — may fall asleep with his or 
her head against the side airbag. It may be 
difficult for a driver to ensure that children 
in the rear seat will remain properly posi-
tioned at all times and do not place their 
heads on or near the side airbag. There-
fore, we recommend that the rear side air-
bags, if provided, be deactivated if you plan 
to transport children in the rear seat.

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The rear seat side airbags may already 
have been deactivated by a BMW Sports 
Activity Vehicle Center. 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 
children less than 5 ft/150 cm tall 

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

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Younger children should be secured in an 
appropriate forward-facing child-restraint 

system that has first been properly secured 
with a safety belt.

All rear seating positions in your vehicle 
meet the recommendations of SAE J1819, 
an industry-recommended practice for 
securing child-restraint systems in motor 
vehicles.

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

passenger seat, the airbags on the passen-
ger's side must be deactivated. The pas-
senger airbag indicator lamp above the 
interior rearview mirror must light up con-
tinuously. Otherwise, the front passenger 
airbags remain active and there is consid-
erable risk of injury to children if the airbags 
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 Vehi-
cle Center.

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

ger seat of this vehicle if the passenger air-
bag 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 
supplemental 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 air-
bag'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.<

More information on automatic deactiva-
tion of the front passenger airbags, refer to 
page 55.

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