Recently I was involved in a car accident with my 2013 Dodge Ram 1500. I was struct by a car at approximately 35 MPH and hit directly on the drivers side, (T-boned). The truck is equipped with side air bags and front air bags, which never deployed. The accident brought extensive damages to the truck and injuries to my wife and I. I reported the non-deployment to Dodge in which case a special inspector was sent out to Thomas Dodge where he ran diagnostics of the airbags computer. No fault signals were found.
Dodge response to the investigation was; impact was not sufficient to merit air bag deployment! Department of transportation safety says the bag is inflated at a certain crash threshold, usually corresponding to a speed of the impacting vehicle of more than 15-20 km/h. Dodge refused to act on it so the question should be to myself, Dodge Ram owners and perspective buyers... WILL MY AIRBAGS DEPLOY WHEN I NEED THEM TO??? BEWARE!
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Recently I was involved in a car accident with my 2013 Dodge Ram 1500. I was struct by a car at approximately 35 MPH and hit directly on the drivers side, (T-boned). The truck is equipped with side air bags and front air bags, which never deployed. The accident brought extensive damages to the truck and injuries to my wife and I. I reported the non-deployment to Dodge in which case a special inspector was sent out to Thomas Dodge where he ran diagnostics of the airbags computer. No fault signals were found.
Dodge response to the investigation was; impact was not sufficient to merit air bag deployment! Department of transportation safety says the bag is inflated at a certain crash threshold, usually corresponding to a speed of the impacting vehicle of more than 15-20 km/h. Dodge refused to act on it so the question should be to myself, Dodge Ram owners and perspective buyers... WILL MY AIRBAGS DEPLOY WHEN I NEED THEM TO??? BEWARE!
- richcmp1c, Schererville, IN, US