I was driving at 15 MPH and hit a pothole. All of a sudden my passenger side airbags deployed along with the passanger side seat airbag. There is no damage to the car what so ever. There was no reason for the airbags to deploy imagine airbags depolying every time someone ran over a pothole. The dealership (www.reydelvw.com) refuses to cover this under warrenty.
2003 Volkswagen GTI airbags complaints
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Consumer was driving at 5 MPH and struck a pot hole and side door air bags deployed. Also, side window malfunctioned, and seat recliner broke.
As I was getting into my car at night (2003 vw gti) I noticed it was very cold. I then proceeded to try to turn the car on but the starter would not give, then to no avail I noticed that the airbag sensor light would not turn off. Roadside assitance through vw was contacted and stated unfortunatly under the extreme cold and due to it being so late at night they could not contact a tow to assist me .
When the 2003 volkswagen gti vr6 was in a front end collision with a SUV and as a result was totaled the driver's air bag did not go off. It seems there may be more faulty aig bags out there in the 2003 year model gti's. Nothing has been done to fix this problem. People, you're safety is at risk.
The consumer was traveling 40 MPH, but when he attempted to apply the brakes, the pedal went to the floor. The consumer was unable to maintain control of the vehicle and rear ended another vehicle. The driver's side air bag did not deploy, but the passenger side did deploy. The driver sustained head injuries. The consumer refused to go to the hospital. The vehicle was towed and totaled t by the insurance company. Please fill in additional information.
Events leading up to failure was a front end collision, in which my car was in a front impact accident with a SUV. My car is a little 2 door vw gti vr6 2003. The SUV was a honda pilot. The failure was that my car was considered totaled by my insurance company and by the body shop my car was towed to and the driver's air bag did not go off. The engine block was cracked and the passenger air bag went off, but I was the only person in the vehicle. I had my seat belt on and my air bag did not go off. The consequences are that my neck and back hurt daily. Nothing has been done that I know of to this day to correct the action. I would suggest looking at the engineering of the computer system dealing with the air bag.
Hit a curb at a low rate of speed ( less than 5mph) and driver side side impact air bag deployed. Only external damage to car was flat tire.
Consumer rear ended another vehicle, and the air bags did not deploy.
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