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Adjusting the seats and head restraints

The seat and head restraint

The design of car seats guarantees maximum comfort sitting in their person while providing conditions for the most effective performance of its functions belts and airbags. Choose the location of the seat also has an impact on the safety of the person sitting in it. For example, when there is excessive displacement of the front seat forward increases the risk of injury while sitting airbag deployment, as well as the risk of ejection through the windscreen in a frontal collision.

The increase will worsen the seatback lock body harness - the more the backrest tilted back, the greater the chance slip body sitting under the lap section of the belt during a severe frontal impact, and the harder it may be injuries.

Fix the front seat farthest from the steering wheel / dashboard and at the same time convenient for the driving position, back in the upright position.

Head restraints prevent injury to the cervical spine and head during a rear impact. Headrest be adjusted in height so that the top section is flush with the upper edge of the ear seated.

To increase the height of the headrest just pull it in the appropriate direction. To reduce the height of the press release button and lower the headrest.

Rear head restraint must also be adjusted by setting them to one of the fixed positions. Lowest position rear headrests is not a business, and only used for folding the rear seat backrest. On some models, used active front seat head restraints. Such head-on impact of a vehicle from behind move forward due to the inertia of the body of the seated passenger. This reduces the dynamic head tilt back and reduces the load on the cervical vertebrae. Active head restraints are designed for collision at low to medium speeds and then kick back in a similar position.

Adjusting the front seats manually. Appropriate handle and lever to remove locking shown in the illustration below. Adjusting the seat cushions and the lumbar support is not available on all models. To make seat adjustment, for security reasons only the vehicle is stationary.

Longitudinal seat adjustment

Adjusting the backrest

Adjusting the seat cushion

Adjustable lumbar support

To ensure the landing and exit of passengers, which are located in the rear seat, for vehicles with three-door body front front seat backrests can be folded forward. To do this, pull the lever on the side of the back-up. The back bend forward. When you return back to the upright position memory device (with appropriate equipment) provides the setting for the original backrest angle

Folding rear seats

Folding the rear seat backrest

For access to the luggage compartment from the passenger compartment provides for the possibility of folding the lateral parts of the rear seatback. To do this, insert the buckle of the seat belt in the holder, lower the headrest to the lowest position and remove the luggage compartment. Then, pull the strap and push the seat back. When you return back to its original position, make sure it is securely locked.

Move rear seat

On some models, the rear seat can be moved forward and backward. For this, while in the interior, lift the release lever rassolozhenny under the seat cushion. In addition, the rear seat can be moved back out of the luggage compartment by pulling on the strap.