Chevrolet Sonic Owner's Manual: How Does an Airbag Restrain?
In moderate to severe frontal or near frontal collisions, even belted occupants can contact the steering wheel or the instrument panel. In moderate to severe side collisions, even belted occupants can contact the inside of the vehicle.
Airbags supplement the protection provided by safety belts by distributing the force of the impact more evenly over the occupant's body.
Rollover capable roof-rail airbags are designed to help contain the head and chest of occupants in the outboard seating positions in the first and second rows. The rollover capable roof-rail airbags are designed to help reduce the risk of full or partial ejection in rollover events, although no system can prevent all such ejections.
But airbags would not help in many types of collisions, primarily because the occupant's motion is not toward those airbags. See When Should an Airbag Inflate?.
Airbags should never be regarded as anything more than a supplement to safety belts.
What Makes an Airbag Inflate?
In a deployment event, the sensing system sends an electrical signal triggering
a release of gas from the inflator. Gas from the inflator fills the airbag causing
the bag to break out of the cover ...
What Will You See after an Airbag Inflates?
After the frontal airbags and seat-mounted side impact airbags inflate, they
quickly deflate, so quickly that some people may not even realize an airbag inflated.
Roof-rail airbags may still be at ...
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Selecting an Auxiliary Device
Connect the auxiliary device to the AUX input terminal. Play will begin when
the system has finished reading the information on the device.
If the storage device is already connected, press
, audio, Source
, select AUX from the drop down menu.
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Front Wiper Blade Replacement
Windshield wiper blades should be inspected for wear or cracking. See the Maintenance
Schedule for more information.
Replacement blades come in different types and are removed in different ways.
For proper windshield wiper blade length and type, see Maintenance Replacement Parts.
Caution ...
Repairing Damaged Wire Insulation
If the wire insulation has been chafed, or broken, enough to show the conductive
portion of the wire, and the wire is not damaged, determine the length of insulation
that needs to be repaired. If the repair is less than 280?€‰mm (11?€‰in), cut the
wire within the damaged area. Then sli ...
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