What is an active head restraint in a Chrysler Town and Country?
What is an active head restraint in a Chrysler Town and Country?
An Active Head Restraint (AHR) system is designed to lessen the impact of whiplash and is located in the front and passenger headrests. The AHR system protects against whiplash by deploying and extending the front half of the headrest forward during a rear end collision to ‘catch’ the occupant’s head.
What does a front seat Active Head Restraint do?
The front driver and passenger seats are equipped with Active Head Restraints (AHR). In the event of a rear impact the AHRs will automatically extend forward minimizing the gap between the back of the occupants head and the AHR. The AHRs will automatically return to their normal position following a rear impact.
How to reset active head restraints ( Ahr ) in Chrysler 200?
Grasp the deployed AHR from the rear seat. 2. Position the hands on the top of the deployed AHR at a comfortable position. 3. Pull down then rearward towards the rear of the vehicle then down to engage the locking mechanism. 4. The AHR front soft foam and trim half should lock into the back decorative plastic half.
Are there any Chrysler vehicles with defective headrests?
The plaintiffs also claim there are hundreds of thousands of Chrysler vehicles equipped with the defective AHR and there is no way of knowing when the AHR in the headrest will spring forward.
How do you reset an active headrest in a car?
Reaching from behind the seat and below the AHR, position both hands on the top of the AHR cushion as illustrated and brace your forearms or your upper torso against the upper seat back as needed for leverage. Three separate and distinct physical actions must each be completed in their entirety to successfully reset and latch an AHR.
When to reset head restraints on Chrysler 200?
Chrysler 200: Resetting Active Head Restraints (AHR) If the Active Head Restraints are triggered in an accident, you must reset the head restraint on the driver’s and front passenger seat. You can recognize when the Active Head Restraint has been triggered by the fact that they have moved forward (as shown in step three of the resetting procedure).
The plaintiffs also claim there are hundreds of thousands of Chrysler vehicles equipped with the defective AHR and there is no way of knowing when the AHR in the headrest will spring forward.
Reaching from behind the seat and below the AHR, position both hands on the top of the AHR cushion as illustrated and brace your forearms or your upper torso against the upper seat back as needed for leverage. Three separate and distinct physical actions must each be completed in their entirety to successfully reset and latch an AHR.
How to reset the active head restraint ( Ahr )?
You can recognize when the Active Head Restraint has been triggered by the fact that they have moved forward (as shown in step three of the resetting procedure). 1. Grasp the deployed AHR from the rear seat. 2. Position the hands on the top of the deployed AHR at a comfortable position.
