Subaru Forester 2019-2026 Owners Manual / Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags
Subaru Forester: Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags
- Seat
- Safety tips
- Manual seat (if equipped)
- Power seat (if equipped)
- Memory function (driver’s seat – if equipped)
- Registration of memory position with button “1” or “2”
- Registration of the reverse tiltdown mirror angle with button “1” or “2”
- Registration of memory position with a key fob
- Registration of the reverse tiltdown mirror angle with the key fob
- Retrieval of memory position registered with button “1” or “2”
- Retrieval of the memory position registered with access key fob
- Clearing the registered seat position with access key fob
- Rear seats
- Armrest (if equipped)
- Folding down the rear seatback
- Return the rear seatback
- Reclining the seatback (if equipped)
- Head restraints
- Seat heater (if equipped)
- Seatbelts
- Seatbelt safety tips
- Infants or small children. Expectant mothers
- Emergency Locking Retractor (ELR) and Automatic Locking Retractor (ALR)
- Fastening the seatbelt. Front seatbelts
- Fastening the seatbelt. Rear seatbelts (except rear center seatbelt)
- Fastening the seatbelt. Rear center seatbelt
- Unfastening the seatbelt
- SeatBelt Inspection
- Seatbelt pretensioners
- Seatbelt with shoulder belt pretensioner
- Seatbelt with shoulder belt and lap belt pretensioners
- System servicing
- Precautions against vehicle modification
- Rear Seat Reminder (models with combination meter display (color LCD))
- Child restraint systems
- Safety tips for installing child restraint systems
- Where to place a child restraint system
- Choosing a child restraint system
- Installing child restraint systems with ALR/ELR seatbelt. Rearward facing child restraint
- Installing forward facing child restraint
- Installing a booster seat
- Installation of child restraint systems by use of lower and tether anchorages (LATCH)
- To install a child restraint system using lower and tether anchorages
- Top tether anchorages. Anchorage location
- To hook the top tether
- SRS airbag (Supplemental Restraint System airbag)
- General precautions regarding SRS airbag system
- General precautions regarding SRS airbag system for accessories and any objects
- General precautions regarding SRS airbag system and children
- Components
- SUBARU advanced frontal airbag system
- Driver’s SRS frontal airbag
- Front passenger’s SRS frontal airbag
- Passenger’s frontal airbag ON and OFF indicators
- Occupant detection system
- Conditions in which front passenger’s SRS frontal airbag is not activated
- If the front passenger’s frontal airbag ON indicator illuminates and the OFF indicator turns off even when an infant or a small child is in a child restraint system (including booster seat)
- Conditions in which front passenger’s SRS frontal airbag is activated
- If the passenger’s frontal airbag OFF indicator illuminates and the ON indicator turns off even when the front passenger’s seat is occupied by an adult
- Operation
- Example of the type of accident
- Example of accident in which the driver’s/driver’s and front passenger’s SRS frontal airbag(s) will most likely deploy
- Examples of the types of accidents in which it is possible that the driver’s/driver’s and front passenger’s SRS frontal airbag(s) will deploy
- Examples of the types of accidents in which deployment of the driver’s/driver’s and front passenger’s SRS frontal airbag(s) is unlikely to occur
- Examples of the types of accidents in which the driver’s/driver’s and front passenger’s SRS frontal airbag(s) are not designed to deploy in most cases
- SRS side airbag and SRS curtain airbag
- Example of the type of accident
- SRS airbag system monitors
- SRS airbag system servicing
- Precautions against vehicle modification
- How to contact the vehicle manufacturer concerning modifications for persons with disabilities that may affect the advanced airbag system
Seat
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Subaru Forester 2019-2026 Owners Manual: Child restraint systems
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