Owner-reported complaints naming the airbag system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming the air-bag system — deployment behaviour, inflators, sensors and warning lights. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1995 Cadillac Deville submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 17 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
As I was pulling off from a stop sign, passenger and driver airbags deployed unexpectedly with no reason causing the front windshield to shatter and leaving the steering wheel busted open along side passenger dash. Also leaving me with burns, scratches on my chin and small shards of glass in my face and forearms.
TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 1995 CADILLAC CONCOURS. HE STATED THAT THE SERVICE AIR BAG LIGHT ILLUMINATED AND REMAINED ON. THE DEALER STATED THAT THEY WOULD REPAIR THE SERVICE AIR BAG LIGHT BUT THERE WOULD BE A CHARGE. THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 102,081 AND THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNAVAILABLE.
AIR BAG LIGHT STAYS ON, AND COMPUTER SAYS TO CHECK AIR BAG. DEALER STATED THEY CAN NOT SAY IF AIR BAG WILL GO OFF OR NOT, MODULE ON DRIVERS SIDE HAS TO BE CHANGED PART IS ON ORDER. *AK *YH
AIRBAG LIGHT KEEPS COMING ON DASHBOARD. TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALER, AND THEY SAID IT WAS A DEFECTIVE COIL. *AK
WHILE RUNNING OVER A POTHOLE BOTH FRONTAL AIR BAGS DEPLOYED, NO DAMAGE TO THE VEHICLE AS A RESULT OF GOING OVER THE POTHOLES, HOWEVER THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE AIR BAGS CAUSED DAMAGE TO THE WINDSHIELD OF THE VEHICLE. *MJS
IT WAS RAINING HARD AND WATER GOT IN THE VEHICLE. LEFT THE PARKING LOT COULD HEAR THE WATER IN THE REAR OF THE CAR. ALL OF SUDDEN THE HORN WAS BLOWING, THEN IT STOPPED. WHEN THE CONSUMER REACHED HOME AND TURNED THE KEY OFF, BOTH AIRBAGS DEPLOYED. PASSENGER SIDE SHATTERED THE WINDSHIELD. THERE WAS A RECALL FOR THE AIRBAG NHTSA RECALL 98V115000 AND MANUFACTURER'S RECALL 98032. *AK *ML
VEHICLE CONTINUALLY EXPERIENCES STALLING. (ATTORNEY FOR CONSUMER).
AIR BAGS DEPLOYED INADVERTENTLY CAUSING DRIVER TO LOOSE CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND COLIDE WITH ON-COMING TRAFFIC. BOTH DRIVER AND PASSENGER RECEIVED FATAL INJURIES.
WHILE TRAVELING AT APPROXIMATELY 40-45 MPH, VEHICLE SUDDENLY BEGAN TO SHAKE VEERING INTO THE ON COMING LANE AND WAS STRUCK BY BROAD SIDE BY ANOTHER VEHICLE. THE ROADS WERE SLIGHTLY COVERED WITH SNOW HAVING BEEN SALTED AND CINDERED 30 MINUTES PRIOR TO CRASH AND NO ICE WAS FOUND ON ROADWAY. AIR BAGS MAY HAVE DEPLOYED INADVERTENTLY CAUSING DRIVER TO LOSE CONTROL. BOTH DRIVER AND PASSENGER WERE KILLED.
FALSE DEPLOYMENT OF AIR BAG CAUSEDING BRUISES TO CONSUMER.
CONSUMER JUST RETURNED HOME TURNED VEHICLE OFF, WENT INTO HIS HOME, RETURNED TO VEHICLE, PUT KEY BACK INTO IGNITION TO PARK IN GARAGE. AS SOON AS HE TURNED THE IGNITION KEY OVER BOTH AIR BAGS DEPLOYED AT ONCE, CAUSING NECK AND AND CHIN CUTS AND BRUISES. DEALERSHIP---SCHOOLY CADILLAC W. PALM BEACH FL.--561-845-5500. DEALER HAS THREE CADILLACS WITH SAME PROBLEM. HE ALSO SAYS THAT WHEN IT RAINS THE VEHICLE GETS WET UNDERNEATH, CAUSING THE AIRBAGS TO DEPLOY. THERE WAS A COMPUTER CHIP INSTALLED LAST WEEK UNDER A RECALL BY CADILLAC. *AK
NO DEPLOYMENT OF AIR BAG IN ACCIDENT.
CONSUMER WAS DRIVING IN A HEAVY RAIN AND PULLED OFF ROAD INTO A PUDDLE AND ENGINE STALLED. THEN WHILE POWER WAS OFF BOTH AIR BAGS DEPLOYED, CAUSING BOTH DRIVER AND PASSENGER TO GET BRUISED. *AK
WOULD LIKE PERMISSION TO AIR BAGS REMOVED.
WOULD LIKE PERMISSION TO AIR BAGS REMOVED.
WHILE TURNING ON VEHICLE, AIR BAG DEPLOYED WITH OUT ANY REASON.PLEASE DESCRIBE. *AK
VEHICLE STALLED WHEN DRIVING THROUGH WATER.
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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