This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
I was driving on a rural 2-lane road when my mini-van started to slid across the road due to an ice/snow covering. My van slid across the lane and slammed head-on into a large tree. The entire front-end of the van was destroyed, but my air-bags never deployed. Both the police officer and tow-truck driver were dismayed at this. Fortunately, I only have a slight concussion and whiplash (thanks to my safety-belt).
When I bumped a metal sign in the walmart parking lot on Feb 18 2002 driving 5 mph, my airbags deployed and the seat belts froze. I found in the manual that they are only suppose to deploy upon moderate to severe impact. I along with 3 other body shops and my insurance, state farm, felt that the air bags deployed faulty and never should have gone off. There was no other damage to the vehicle, demonstrating how lightly the sign was hit. This was an expensive defect that I would like to report, in case it should happen to someone else. ****dimsii IVOQ entry posted after 12/12/02 cut over to artemis****760765
Vehicle was involved in a frontal collision of 25-30 mph. Upon impact, air bags did not deploy. Dealer has been contacted. The dealer stated that there was not a direct hit on the vehicle and that was why the air bags did not deploy.
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- Aurora, IL, USA