Ford Escape: Front safety belt usage sensors
The front safety belt usage sensors detect whether or not the driver and front outboard passenger safety belts are fastened. This information allows your Personal Safety System to tailor the airbag deployment and safety belt pretensioner activation depending upon safety belt usage.
Refer to Safety restraints section in this chapter.
Front passenger sensing system
For airbags to do their job they must inflate with great force, and this
force can pose a potentially deadly risk to occupants that are very close
to the airbag when it begins to inflate. For some o ...
Front safety belt pretensioners
The safety belt pretensioners at the front outboard seating positions are
designed to tighten the safety belts firmly against the occupant’s body
during frontal collisions, and in side collisions ...
See also:
Flash-to-pass
Pull toward you slightly to activate
and release to deactivate.
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Changing a wheel
Removing a wheel
Location of jack, towing eyelet1 and tools ...
Brake fluid
Location of the brake fluid reservoir
Checking the level
The fluid reservoir is concealed under the
round cover at the rear of the engine compartment.
The round cover must be removed first
be ...
