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 1994 Pontiac Grand Am submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 38 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.
The 25 most recent of 38, in the owner's own words
HELLO. I WAS IN A CRASH,SANDWICHED BETWEEN 02 PICKUP TRUCKS. MY AIRBAGS NEVER DEPLOYED. MY CAR WAS CRUSHED! THE FORCE BROKE MY FRONT SEATS SLAM ME INTO THE DASH. THE TRUCK IN FRONT OF ME WAS STOP ALSO AS I WAS A GREEN TRUCK SLAM INTO ME AT 45 MILES AN HOUR CRUSHING ME AGAINST A WHITE PICKUP WAITING TO TURN LEFT INTO A GAS STATION. *TR
AIR BAG NON-DEPLOYMENT. ON OCTOBER 25, 2003 MY DAUGHTER WRECKED HER 1994 PONTIAC GRAND AM SE FRONTAL RIGHT DRIVERS IMPACT. THE POLICE REPORT STATES SHE WAS TRAVELING A 55 MPH AT THE TIME OF THE IMPACT. WE, HOWEVER, WERE ABLE TO DRIVE THE CAR HOME FROM THE TOWING LOT. THE AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY. IS THERE A PLACE IN CENTRAL OR SOUTHEAST OHIO THAT CAN DOWNLOAD THE CRASH DATA RECORDER TO DETERMINE WHY THE AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY OR IF THE SPEED WAS LESS THAT REPORTED? *LA
CONSUMER STATES WHILE TRAVELING 60 MPH AND WHILE BEING HIT FROM BEHIND CONSUMER LOST CONTROL OF VEHICLE, CAUSING VEHICLE TO RUN OFF THE ROAD INTO AN EMBANKMENT. UPON IMPACT, AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY AT ANY TIME. *AK
AIRBAG DEPLOYED DURING ACCIDENT, STRIKING DRIVER IN FACE, CAUSING BULDGING DISCS IN THE CERVICAL SPINE, FACIAL BRUISES, FACIAL BURNS, CHEST HEMATOMA, BRUISING TO BREASTS, BRUISING TO ARMS, AND HEARING LOSS. PASSENGER HAD NO AIRBAG AND WAS UNINJURED IN ACCIDENT. *AK
BRAKES WENT TO FLOOR CAR KEPT GOING, STEERING LOCKED, AIRBAG DEPLOYED STRIKING DRIVER IN FACE, HIT STALLED CAR FROM BEHIND. HAVE RECENTLY LEARNED CAR HAS HAD PREVIOUS BRAKE PROBLEMS BY PREVIOUS OWNER RESULTING IN BRAKES BEING REPLACED 4 TIMES, ALSO PREVIOUS OWNER REPORTED TO DEALER STEERING PROBLEMS.*AK
FRONT END COLLISION. GARAGE THEN REDID CAR REPLACED AIR BAG SENSOR, IF THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NOTHING WRONG WITH SENSOR IT WOULD NOT HAVE TO HAVE BEEN REPLACED. *AK
WHILE DRIVING AT 34MPH, VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A FRONTAL COLLISION, NONE OF THE AIR BAGS DEPLOYED.*AK THE CONSUMER STATED THAT THE FAILED BRAKES WAS THE REASON FOR THE ACCIDENT. *YH
WHILE DRIVING 45-50MPH, CONSUMER REAR-ENDED ANOTHER VEHICLE AND THE AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. *AK *JB
CONSUMER'S VEHICLE REAR ENDED ANOTHER VEHICLE WHILE CONSUMER WAS TRAVELING AT 40 MPH, AND NONE OF FRONTAL AIRBAGS DEPLOYED. *AK
VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT, LANDING ON THE FRONT OF THE CAR AND THE DRIVER SIDE AIRBAG NEVER DEPLOYED.*AK
WHILE DRIVING AT 55MPH VEHICLE LIFTED INTO AIR AND CAME DOWN ON FRONT END, AND DRIVER'S SIDE AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY. VEHICLE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN. *AK
PIN FELL OUT OF STEERING COLLUMN AND LOST CONTROL OR STEERING, AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY EVEN THOUGH A FRONT END COLLISION ENSUED.*AK
CONSUMER WAS INVOLVED IN A FRONTAL COLLISION IN WHICH DRIVER'S AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY. PLEASE GIVE ANY FURTHER DETAILS.*AK
I WAS RECENTLY IN A HEAD ON COLLISION, BUT MY AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY. THE AIRBAG DID NOT SMOKE, IT DID NOTHING.
WAS TRAVELING BETWEEN 30-35MPH WHEN ANOTHER VEHICLE PULLED OUT IN FRONT, AND "T"-BONED VEHICLE. UPON IMPACT, DRIVER'S AIR BAG FAILED TO DEPLOY. THE SEAT BELT ALSO FAILED TO RESTRAIN THE DRIVER. *AK.THE DRIVERS SUSTAINED HEAD INJURIES WHEN HEAD WENT INTO WINDSHIELD. *ET
VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A FRONTAL COLLISION, AND AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY, RESULTING IN MINOR INJURIES. MANUFACTURER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED. *AK
CONSUMER WAS INVOLVED IN A FRONTAL COLLISION IN WHICH THE DRIVER'S AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY, AND THE SEAT BELT DID NOT LOCK UP. PLEASE GIVE ANY FURTHER DETAILS.*AK
WHILE DRIVING AT 25 MPH HAD FRONTAL IMPACT WITH A CHEVROLET BLAZER, AND DRIVER'S AIRBAG DID NOT DEPLOY WHICH DID NOT PROTECT THE OCCUPANT IN THE CRASH. *AK
HEAD-ON CRASH, FACIAL INJURIES, BENT STEERING WHEEL DUE TO IMPACT, BUT AIRBAD DID NOT DEPLOY.
VEHICLE FLIPPED OVER AND WENT FORWARD ON A GRAVEL ROAD, AND THE DRIVER'S SIDE AIRBAG NEVER DEPLOYED. CAR HAS NOT BEEN SEEN BECAUSE IT WAS TOTALED. *AK
THIS VEHICLE WAS IN A FRONT END COLLITON, STRIKING A TREE HEAD ON AT APROX. 20MPH. THE DRIVERS SIDE AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY. RESULTING IN HEAD INJURYS, AND FACIAL CONTUSIONS AND LACERATIONS TO DRIVER. UNFORUNATELY, THE DRIVER (MYSELF), WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT.
CONSUMER INVOLVED IN A FRONT END COLLISION, AND DRIVER'S SIDE AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY, CAUSING VISUAL INJURY VEHICLE WAS TOTALLED. *ML
NO DEPLOYMENT OF DRIVER'S AIR BAG UPON IMPACT DURING REAR END COLLISION. VEHICLE SUSTAINED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE. PRIOR TO ABOVE COLLISION.
NO DEPLOYMENT OF DRIVER'S AIR BAG DURING REAR END COLLISION, RESULTIN GIN INJURIES. *AK
TRAVELED ON INTERSTATE WHEN THE WHEEL AND DRUM CAME OFF THE AXEL. WHILE CONSUMER WAS DRIVING AT APPROXIMATELY 65MPH, THE DRIVER'S SIDE AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY WHEN VEHICLE HIT A HILL IN MIDDLE OF REVENE. VEHICLE FLEW INTO MID-AIR, LANDING ON PASSENGER'S SIDE, STILL SLIDING BEFORE RETURNING TO UPRIGHT POSITION AND HITTING A SECOND HILL. CONSUMER WAS WEARING SEAT BELT.
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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