Land Rover Defender: Description

SIDE AIR CURTAINS

Vehicle with 3 doors

1. Side air curtain - Right
2. Side air curtain - Left

Vehicle with 5 doors - All market except North American Specification

1. Side air curtain - Right
2. Side air curtain - Left

Vehicle with 5 doors - North American Specification Vehicles

1. Side air curtain - Right
2. Side air curtain - Left

The side air curtains are installed along both sides of the vehicle, under the edges of the headliner. The side air curtains provide head protection and roll-over ejection protection for outside seat occupants. The side air curtains are operated during a side impact occurs.

The front and rear ends of the side air curtains are anchored to the body. Their deployment area extends between the A-pillar and D-pillar trims, passing over the upper B-pillar and C-pillar trim.

Airbag location

NOTES:

• Vehicle with 5 doors is shown, vehicle with 3 doors is similar.
• RHD vehicle is shown, LHD vehicle is similar.

1. Front passenger airbag
2. Front seat side airbag (quantity 2)
3. Curtain airbag (quantity 2)
4. Driver airbag

SEATBELT RETRACTOR PRETENSIONERS

1. Retractor pretensioner - Front row outer
2. Retractor pretensioner - Front row center, second row outer, second row center and third row outer - 7 seat
3. Seatbelt pretensioner - NAS only
4. Retractor pretensioner - Second row bench central - 5 seat
5. Retractor pretensioner - Second row bench central - 7 seat

All of the seatbelt retractor pretensioners incorporate an emergency locking function and a load limiter function. On NAS vehicles, the retractors of the front passenger and rear seatbelts also incorporate an automatic locking function.

OPERATION

DIAGNOSTICS

The RCM records any Diagnostic Trouble Code (DTC)s and related data. Read the DTCs and related data with the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) approved diagnostic equipment.

The JLR approved diagnostic equipment enables certain components to be activated and also live data to be read.

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