Help Me Preserve My Repurtation

[Kneale Brownson]

Quoting the V8 Owner Manual "Technical Description":

"Your vehicle is equipped with the unique Audi safety system "ten" (for
TENsion) which pretensions the safety belt for the driver and front seat
passenger.

The system functions automatically to reduce slack in the safety belt
webbing and further limit forward occupant movement in frontal collisions
severe enough to cause a relative rearward displacement of the
engine/transmission unit.

The rearward movement of the engine/transmission unit occuring in such
collisions is transmitted by means of specially routed cables to the front
safety belt retractors and used to pretension the belt."

There is no mention of the steering column.  The description of airbag
operation also makes no mention of the steering column being altered by the
cables.


At 06:12 PM 9/6/2006 -0400, Robert Rossato wrote:
>My recollection is that on cars without airbags it both tensions the
>seatbelts, and retracts the steering column.