CAMARO6 - View Single Post - How in the hell do the air bags not deploy??

Vigilante375 · 01-15-2021, 08:55 AM

04-06 Pontiac GTO's were notorious for not deploying the air bags from frontal impacts of any speed. My niece was just recently involved in a side impact and her little Fiat didn't deploy ANY airbags. The impact was just like how the IHS test's all vehicles and yet no airbags......

Its sad that this type of impact doesn't result in airbag deployments and GM will do nothing about it but yet if our cars cross over a section of a road course while racing for a fast time, it'll deploy the side airbags and GM will say that it's designed to do that because your car raised to 1.5 degree's of an angle.

But judging on the impact and it was from the side as both vehicles were traveling in the same direction, I guess the NHSTA/IHS do not feel like those impacts should have a airbag deployment.

01-15-2021, 08:55 AM	#15
Vigilante375 Drives: 2018 Camaro ZL1 Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: Georgia Posts: 1,419	04-06 Pontiac GTO's were notorious for not deploying the air bags from frontal impacts of any speed. My niece was just recently involved in a side impact and her little Fiat didn't deploy ANY airbags. The impact was just like how the IHS test's all vehicles and yet no airbags...... Its sad that this type of impact doesn't result in airbag deployments and GM will do nothing about it but yet if our cars cross over a section of a road course while racing for a fast time, it'll deploy the side airbags and GM will say that it's designed to do that because your car raised to 1.5 degree's of an angle. But judging on the impact and it was from the side as both vehicles were traveling in the same direction, I guess the NHSTA/IHS do not feel like those impacts should have a airbag deployment.