2015 Nissan Titan | Owner's Manual
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2015 NISSAN ® TITAN 2015 TITAN OWNER’S MANUAL A60-D Printing : May 2015 (21) Publication No.: OM1EOM15EA 0A60U0 0A60U1 For your safety, read carefully and keep in this vehicle. Printed in U.S.A. A60-D Owner’s Manual Supplement The information contained within this supplement replaces and revises the follow- ing information in the 2015 Titan Owner’s Manual: ● Front passenger air bag and status light in the “Safety–Seats, seat belts and supplemental restraint system” section of the Owner’s Manual ● Towing your vehicle in the “In case of emergency” section of the Owner’s Manual Read carefully and keep in vehicle. Printing: May 2015 (02) Publication No. SU15EA 0A60U1 Status light crash. The driver air bag and other air bags in your vehicle are not part of this system. The right front passenger air bag status light is located under the climate controls. The purpose of the regulation is to help reduce After the ignition switch is placed in the ЉONЉ the risk of injury or death from an inflating air bag position, the front passenger air bag status light to certain front passenger seat occupants, such on the instrument panel illuminates for about as children, by requiring the air bag to be auto- 7 seconds and then turns off or operates de- matically turned OFF. Certain sensors are used to pending on the front passenger seat occupied meet the requirements. status. The light operates as follows: One sensor used is the occupant classification ● Unoccupied passenger’s seat: The sensor (weight sensor). It is in the bottom of the light is OFF and the front passenger air bag right front passenger seat cushion and is de- is OFF and will not inflate in a crash. signed to detect an occupant and objects on the ● right front seat by weight. It works together with LRS0865 Passenger’s seat occupied by a small adult, child or child restraint as outlined in this seat belt sensors described in this section. For Front passenger air bag and status light section: The illuminates to indicate example, if a child is in the right front passenger seat, the Advanced Air Bag System is designed WARNING that the front passenger air bag is OFF and will not inflate in a crash. to turn the passenger air bag OFF in accordance with the regulations. Also, if a child restraint of the The front passenger air bag is designed to ● automatically turn OFF under some condi- Occupied passenger seat and the passen- type specified in the regulations is on the seat, its tions. Read this section carefully to learn ger meets the conditions outlined in this weight and the child’s weight can be detected how it operates. Proper use of the seat, section: The light is OFF to indicate and cause the air bag to turn OFF. Occupant seat belt and child restraints is necessary that the front passenger air bag is opera- classification sensor operation can vary depend- for most effective protection. Failure to tional. ing on the right front passenger seat belt sensors. Front passenger air bag follow all instructions in this manual con- The front passenger seat belt sensors are de- cerning the use of seats, seat belts and The right front passenger air bag is designed to signed to detect if the seat belt is buckled and the child restraints can increase the risk or automatically turn OFF when the vehicle is oper- amount of tension on the seat belt, such as when severity of injury in an accident. ated under some conditions as described below it is in the Automatic Locking Retractor (ALR) in accordance with U.S. regulations. If the front mode (child restraint mode). Based on the passenger air bag is OFF it will not inflate in a weight on the seat detected by the occupant classification sensor and the belt tension de- Failing to properly secure child restraints and to If a child restraint must be used in the front seat, tected on the seat belt, the Advanced Air Bag use the ALR mode (child restraint mode) may the passenger air bag status light may or may not System determines whether the front passenger allow the restraint to tip or move in a collision or be illuminated, depending on the size of the child air bag should be automatically turned OFF, as sudden stop. This can also result in the passen- and the type of child restraint being used. If the air required by the regulations. ger air bag inflating in a crash instead of being bag status light is not illuminated (indicating that OFF. For additional information, refer to “Child the air bag might inflate in a crash), it could be Front passenger seat adult occupants who are restraints” in this section for proper use and in- that the child restraint or seat belt is not being properly seated and using the seat belt as out- stallation. used properly. Make sure that the child restraint is lined in this manual should not cause the passen- installed properly, the seat belt is used properly ger air bag to be automatically turned OFF. For If the right front passenger seat is not occupied and the occupant is positioned properly. If the air small adults it may be turned OFF; however, if the the passenger air bag is designed not to inflate in bag status light is not illuminated, reposition the occupant takes his/her weight off the seat cush- a crash. However, heavy objects placed on the occupant or child restraint in a rear seat. ion (for example, by not sitting upright, by sitting seat could result in air bag inflation, because of on an edge of the seat, or by otherwise being out the object’s weight detected by the occupant If the passenger air bag status light will not illu- of position), this could cause the sensor to turn classification sensor. Other conditions could also minate even though you believe that the child the air bag OFF. In addition, if the occupant result in air bag inflation, such as if a child is restraint, the seat belts and the occupant are improperly uses the seat belt in the ALR mode standing on the seat, or if two children are on the properly positioned, the system may be sensing (child restraint mode), this could cause the air an unoccupied seat (in which case the air bag is seat, contrary to the instructions in this manual. bag to be turned OFF. Always be sure to be OFF). Your NISSAN dealer can check that the Always be sure that you and all vehicle occupants seated and wearing the seat belt properly for the system is OFF by using a special tool. However, are seated and restrained properly. most effective protection by the seat belt and until you have confirmed with your dealer that supplemental air bag. Using the passenger air bag status light, you can your air bag is working properly, reposition the monitor when the front passenger air bag is au- occupant or child restraint in a rear seat. NISSAN recommends that pre-teens and chil- tomatically turned OFF with the seat occupied. dren be properly restrained in a rear seat. The air bag system and passenger air bag status The light will not illuminate when the right front NISSAN also recommends that appropriate child light will take a few seconds to register a change passenger seat is unoccupied. restraints and booster seats be properly installed in the passenger seat status. For example, if a in a rear seat. If this is not possible, the occupant If an adult occupant is in the seat but the passen- large adult who is sitting in the front passenger classification sensor and seat belt sensors are ger air bag status light is illuminated (indicating seat exits the vehicle, the passenger air bag designed to operate as described above to turn that the air bag is OFF), it could be that the status light will go from OFF to ON for a few the front passenger air bag OFF for specified person is a small adult, or is not sitting on the seat seconds and then to OFF. This is normal system child restraints as required by the regulations. properly or not using the seat belt properly. operation and does not indicate a malfunction. If a malfunction occurs in the front passenger air ● Do not make unauthorized changes to ● Modifying or tampering with the front bag system, the supplemental air bag warning your vehicle’s electrical system, sus- passenger seat may result in serious light , located in the meter and gauges area pension system or front end structure. personal injury. For example, do not on the driver’s side of the instrument panel, will This could affect proper operation of change the front seats by placing mate- blink. Have the system checked by a NISSAN the front air bag system. rial on the seat cushion or by installing additional trim material, such as seat dealer. ● If your vehicle has front recovery hooks covers, on the seat that are not specifi- Other supplemental front-impact air bag as original factory equipment do not cally designed to assure proper air bag precautions remove or modify them. If it was not operation. Additionally, do not stow any equipped with front recovery hooks do objects under the front passenger seat WARNING not install them. Either action could af- or the seat cushion and seatback. Such fect proper operation of the front airbag ● Do not place any objects on the steering objects may interfere with the proper system resulting in injury or death.