Tl* the contact owns a 2005 pontiac vibe. The contact stated that when the vehicle was started, there was an abnormal noise coming from the passenger side air bag. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 73,000.
2005 Pontiac Vibe airbags complaints
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Tl* the contact owns a 2005 pontiac vibe. The contact received a notification for the federal safety agency campaign number: 14v655000 (air bags). However, the part to do the repair was unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer had exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The contact had not experienced a failure.
Received a letter via fedex from gm regarding air bag recall 14735, advises no one should occupy the front seat and have this repair done immediately. Letter also states I can call my local dealership immediately for service, which I did. Local dealership here in hawaii advises they know nothing about this recall #14735, do not have the parts, do not know when they will have the parts and put me on an indefinite wait list. Basically the letter from gm appears to cover them from liability but it reality no one is servicing my car!
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 pontiac vibe. The contact stated that the air bag sensor illuminated intermittently. The vehicle was to be inspected, diagnosed and repaired by an authorized dealer. The contact had not been notified of the federal safety agency campaign id number: 14v350000 (air bags). The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 53,000.
Stopped at red light with a dodge ram 1500 in front of me. I was rear ended by a car (toyota rav 4) going approximately 35 MPH. I did turn my steering wheel to try and get into the turn lane to avoid the collision but did not have enough time. The car rear ended me and then my car was pushed into the truck in front of me. My car sustained damage to both the front and back. My head hit the side window jam (between the windshield and door) and then my nose and mouth hit my steering wheel. I was wearing my seat belt but still my face was injured and my left leg hit the steering column. I do remember feeling a point during the collision that I flew in the air - having the feeling that I was flying. My seat belt caught and I was pushed back into the seat. My seat was not too close to the steering wheel while I was driving. My airbag did not deploy at all even though I was rear ended and then pushed into the car in front of me. I sustained a broken nose which is broke on both sides from hitting the steering wheel I believe. I also ended up splitting my eye in two places when I hit the border between the windshield and door. I also ended up hitting my leg on the steering column with major bruising. The impact with the steering also caused my teeth to go through my top lip and broke numerous teeth. I feel like I would not have sustained such serious injuries if my airbag had deployed.
My girl's vehicle stopped on it's own several times with no warning, but later would restart. The engine just kept stopping she would say in various turns, but with jiggling the key it would start back up.the last time while turning left at a light the vehicle died in the middle of the turn again. This time, the vehicle just made it coasting thru the intersection. I noticed the key chain was overloaded with mace, mini baseball tigers bat, 15 keys, pictures etc. We took it to a mechanic and was informed the engine must be locked and we need to scrap the car because they could not get it to fire up. I believe it was the ignition switch that sometimes made contact. I just got a 4th notice that the 4th set of airbags are defective. The car is crushed now, but it seems pretty logical the ignition switch was faulty. I bought her a new car because it kept dying in turns. I did not put two and two together until after the publicity. The scope of this recall needs to be expanded to the 2005 pontiac vibe. We were lucky that no one was coming from the other direction thru those intersections. The VIN is [xxx] information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
Intermittent then steady display of "air bag" malfunction light on dash.
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 pontiac vibe. The contact stated there was an accident which causes $5000 damage to the front of the vehicle and the air bags did not deploy. He was driving at 60mph when another vehicle crash into his. Everyone was wearing their seat belts ,their was one person injured but they did not go to the hospital until four days after. A police report is available if needed. The vehicle was driven away from the scene. The gm and toyota manufacturer were contacted but no one has responded as of the time of the complaint. There was no maintenance or service performed on the air bags before the accident. The VIN number is unknown. The failure mileage was 70,000
2005 vibe major front end damage air bags didn't deploy repair to fender,'grill air conditioner ,hood, bumper some new pairs some use parts.
I bought this car august 2005 and it always had a start issue. It just wont turn over, but this problem can go for a couple of days before starting again. It will start fine some days and others it won't. Also was in a car accident rear ended a van and smashed up the car but the air bags didn't deploy at all. My insurance company stopped counting the damage after it hit $10,000. It was at an angle versus just straight on. Car has less than 20,000 miles on it. Main concern was the air bag didn't go off when the collision happened. Luckily everyone was fine. But what is being done about this two problems?
Car crash which my vehicle crashed into rear of vehicle in front of me. Speed was above 20mph. My car is totaled and air bags didnt deploy.
I was involved in a serious front end collision at approximately 40 MPH on the freeway. My air bag did not deploy. When I called the dealership to inquire about why this happened and I was told that "air bags only deploy at certain angles." well, if it was a direct front end collision that caused $8,600 worth of damage, don't you think the air bag should have gone off? I had to replace everything between the engine and the bumper, this is ridiculous that I got the run -around about the air bag. I am very concerned that air bags in many vibes are faulty and that pontiac isn't doing anything about it.
2005 pontiac vibe was involved in a collision and air bags did not deploy. *ts
Dt: the consumer states that the 2005 pontiac vibe has been in the shop 4 times for an indicator light that indicates that the air bag is inoperative. The owner's manual states that if this light is on the air bag could deploy at anytime. The dealership is aware of the problem. The manufacturer has been contacted, and advised the consumer to bring the car to dealer again since the light is still not working properly. Now the indicator light on the passenger's side air bag is not showing if the air bag is on or off. When there is a passenger in the sea the light is showing off for the air bag when the light should say on. When the consumer took the car out for a drive the light did not come on at all.
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