Honda Civic/Acura Integra

since 1994 of release

Repair and car operation

Safety systems

Safety cushions work only at rather strong front blow of the car. Force of the blow causing inclusion of additional system of safety, approximately corresponds to car collision for speed of 40 km/h with the motionless car of the same weight and the sizes. Safety cushions are not inflated at front blow of average force, and also at car blows (even very strong) behind, sideways or at a car perevorachivaniye.

Safety cushions are protection devices of disposable action. They are not capable to protect you at repeated front blows which can happen after the first blow in the same failure.

Heavy traumas, mutilations and death of the driver and passengers of the car are possible at strong failures even if safety cushions worked in time and belts were adjusted and fastened properly. Any modern protective system cannot guarantee full safety of the driver and passengers at severe accidents.

Visual survey of the damages received by the car as a result of failure, usually happens very difficult authentically to establish, should or not work safety cushions. In certain cases strong damages of a body testify that the considerable part of energy of blow was absorbed by deformation of elements of a body. Thus threshold value of delay on which sensors of delay are adjusted and which causes operation of safety cushions, could be not exceeded. In other cases when the blow fell on more rigid part of the car (for example, a running gear) and it was accompanied by more considerable delay, a body does not receive considerable visible damages, and pillows work.

Functioning of a safety cushion of the driver

At front blow of sufficient force the safety cushion established in a nave of a steering wheel, almost instantly is inflated and protects the driver from heading and a breast about a steering wheel.

Effectively to execute the protective function, the safety cushion should be developed from the combined condition in working with very high speed. Therefore a safety cushion, protecting you from heavy mutilations and in some cases even saving your life, can become the reason of an easy travmirovaniye. For example, you can get scratches, grazes on a face, etc. To reduce probability of a travmirovaniye of the person a safety cushion, it is necessary to settle down always on a driver's seat on the greatest possible removal from a steering wheel. Thus, certainly, you should provide to yourselves the good review and possibility of a convenient manipulation with all governing bodies the car.

Right after filling by gas the safety cushion is quickly blown off, providing possibility to the driver visually to estimate a situation after front blow and to correct the direction of movement of the car by means of a steering wheel, and also to use other governing bodies the car. The period from the operation moment to a sduvaniye of a safety cushion lasts fractions of a second. You can not realize at first at all that the safety cushion worked.

The safety cushion of the driver is in the combined condition under an overlay of a nave of a steering wheel. With a view of your safety do not attach to a nave or a rim of a steering wheel any extraneous subjects. These subjects can complicate normal functioning of a safety cushion or to be rejected by being inflated cover of a pillow and to injure you or other passengers.

The safety cushion of the passenger is in the combined condition from above in the right side of the control panel under a cover with SRS inscription. Do not attach to a cover any extraneous subjects. At pillow operation these subjects can be rejected by being inflated cover of a pillow and to injure the passengers who were in the car.

The provision of backs of the seats, providing safety

In order that seat belts could carry out effectively the protective functions, backs of forward seats should be brought into vertical situation. If you increase an inclination of a back of a seat, it will worsen body fixing by a seat belt. The seat back is more inclined back, the probability of a podnyrivaniye of a body under a belt is higher at strong front blow of the car and the more hard can be traumatized.

Instructions on adjustment of a back of a seat are provided in Adjustment of seats.

The provision of head restraints providing safety

Head restraints prevent travmirovany necks and the heads at car blow behind. The head restraint should be adjusted on height so that its top was flush with the upper edge of an ear. If it is not possible to achieve it, it is necessary to establish a head restraint in most lifted situation. Instructions on adjustment of a seat are provided in Adjustment of seats.

Safety of children

The children's protective chairs shown below and pillows are recommended for use in your car.