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If your vehicle has an airbag on-off switch, it also has a passenger airbag status indicator located in the overhead console.

United States


Object Number: 1476572  Size: A1

Canada


Object Number: 1476529  Size: A1

When you start your vehicle, the passenger airbag status indicator will light ON and OFF, or the symbol for on and off, will light for several seconds as a system check. Then, after several more seconds, the status indicator ON or OFF, or either the on or off symbol, will light to let you know the status of the right front passenger's frontal airbag.

When you turn the right front passenger's airbag off, this light will come on and stay on to remind you that the airbag has been turned off. This light will go off when you turn the airbag back on again. See Airbag Off Switch for more on this, including important safety information.

United States


Object Number: 1439315  Size: A3

Canada


Object Number: 1440199  Size: A3

When you manually turn the right front passenger's airbag off using the airbag on-off switch in the glove box, the indicator light OFF or the off symbol will come on and stay on to remind you that the airbag has been turned off. This light will go off when you turn the airbag on. See Airbag Off Switch for more on this, including important safety information.

Caution: If the right front passenger's airbag is turned off for a person who is not in a risk group identified by the national government, that person will not have the extra protection of an airbag. In a crash, the airbag will not be able to inflate and help protect the person sitting there.

Do not turn off the passenger's airbag unless the person sitting there is in a risk group identified by the national government. See Airbag Off Switch for more on this, including important safety information.

Caution: If the airbag readiness light ever comes on when you have turned off the airbag, it means that something may be wrong with the airbag system. The right front passenger's airbag could inflate even though the switch is off. If this ever happens, do not let anyone whom the national government has identified as a member of a passenger airbag risk group sit in the right front passenger's position (for example, do not secure a rear-facing child restraint in the right front passenger's seat) until you have your vehicle serviced. See Airbag Off Switch and Airbag Readiness Light for more on this, including important safety information.

If the word ON or the on symbol is lit, it means that the right front passenger's frontal airbag is enabled (may inflate). See Airbag Off Switch for more on this, including important safety information.

If, after several seconds, both status indicator lights remain on, or if there are no lights at all, there may be a problem with the lights or the airbag on-off switch. See your dealer/retailer for service.