High speed front end impact accident and all airbags failed to deploy causing serious bodily injury.
Ford E-150 no deployment problems
12 of the 982 owner complaints about the Ford E-150 describe airbags did not deploy in a crash, most of them for the 1993 model year.
- owner complaints
- 12
- worst model year
- 1993
- typical mileage
- 48,000
By model year
- 20131
- 20052
- 20021
- 19992
- 19961
- 19941
- 19933
- 19921
Often reported together
What owners say
I was driving down a hill and my brakes failed totally. I ran head on into a tree which caused me to blackout. Once rescued from truck I was told the air bag never deployed. So I feel there are two failures here the brakes and the air bag.
Dt*: the contact stated while driving 55 MPH on a dry highway, a semi-tractor trailer truck jackknifed and the cab of the tractor trailer truck collided with the truck head on. The air bags did not deploy and the truck was totaled. There were three people injured and a police report was taken. Seat belts were in use at the time of the accident and functioned correctly.
1996 ford f-150 2wd mileage 112,500 (well maintained) oss of steering resulting from something inside steering box disengaging. Causing no control from operator of vehicle. Vehicle pulled to right and hit parked car, once pass parked car vehecle continued to pull to right, over the lawn and hitting another parked car in drivway beforecoming to a stop ntire incident took 3 seconds. I was on I side street close to home doing about 30-35 MPH, had it been a highway, people could have been killed. Lso air bag did not deploy why! Please see if there are any other complaints like this!
Ltr fm denis bittenbender (pa) writer is a quadriplegic use of electronic equipment to operate vehicle involved in accident electronic equipment failed causing accident request the federal safety agency test equipment defect, reply to the allentown ofc dot 2004-4251. *la the vehicle had run off the highway and ran into a tree in which the vehicle veered at a 30 degree angle to the right an did not respond to any actions the consumer tried to perform. On another occasion, the brake unit failed and the manufacturer replaced the unit. The emergency brake never worked properly and the air bags did not deploy. *sc it was also possible the van had a steering problem.
Vehicle veered off the road and into a tree. *ph the air bags did not deploy during the accident. The federal safety agency did some testing but could not pin point the problem. A recall was initiated which the consumer received august 24, 2003, 30 days prior to the accident. Since the vehicle was to be out of service for approximately two weeks the consumer was in the process of rearranging his schedule to comply when the failure occurred. Five days after the consumer purchased the vehicle the brake unit failed. The manufacturer replaced the unit after some installer/manufacturer disagreements. The emergency brake never worked properly.
As the result of a head-on collision, the airbags failed to deploy. The collision was slightly off-center to the drivers side of the vehicle. Subject vehicle was traveling at approximately 30-35 m.p.h., other vehicle was traveling at least the same speed if not more. Seat belt did lock-up causing a possible tear of the the subject vehicle driver's spinal cord at the fourth cervical vertebrae (neck) level.
Driver's side airbag didn't deploy during crash.
Lost conrtol of vehicle, ran into a ditch top portion of steering box broke. Drivers side airbag did not deploy.
Hit another vehicle broadside, air bag did not deploy.
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the Ford E-150 no deployment
Which Ford E-150 years have airbags did not deploy in a crash problems?
The model years with the most reports are 1993 (3 complaints), 1999 (2 complaints) and 2005 (2 complaints).
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