Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIR BAGS | |||
| 05/23/2011 | 74854 | ||
| Air bag warning light remain on at all times now. has been an habitual problem with this model year vehicle, yet multiple dealers are unwilling to help with this obvious safety issue. | |||
| 02/22/2010 | 138000 | 1 | |
| I was involved in an accident on 02/22/2010. a very large ice chest flew out of a vehicle several cars ahead of me on the highway. traffic was going around 55 - 60 mph. the first car slammed on their brakes, trying to avoid the ice chest. the car behind crashed into them and so on. i was the last vehicle in the collision. i stood on my brakes and made every effort to stop before crashing into the truck in front of me. i crashed into the back of the ford f-250, inflicting minimal damage to their tailgate. the front of my avalanche was crushed. it was a full front crash - with a little more damage to the driver's side than the passenger side. the front tire on the driver's side was cut in the crash. the passenger side a/c vent was jammed by the accident. i had injury to my c-spine, knees, arms, chest, etc. the air bag should have deployed. i was wearing my seat belt, so i didn't hit the windshield. but had that failed, i would have been more seriously injured. the avalanche is in the body shop now. there is no warning light, code or other indication of a problem with the air bags. at this point, i have no faith in my air bags in the event of an accident. i'd rather not wait for a fatal accident to prove that there is a problem. *tr | |||
| 12/01/2007 | 59000 | 1 | |
| We were involved in an accident where we hit another vehicle and then rolled. the air bags never deployed at all and my husbands seat belt let loose before the vehicle had stopped. *tr | |||
| AIR BAGS - FRONTAL | |||
| 04/01/2005 | 20000 | ||
| 2004 avalanche service airbag light came on in 2005 dealership replace airbag unit service airbag light came on in 2007 dealership claimed wire needed to be replaced service airbag light came on in 2009 vehicle out of warranty and light now stays on with no apparent fix available started researching forums on the internet and realized the magnitude of the problem and that thousands of other gm vehicles are running into the same issue no deaths from lack of deployment in my truck to report | |||
| 08/10/2009 | 64680 | ||
| I have a 2004 chevy avalanche which i bought new that was involved in a t-bone collision at approx. 35 mph across the front end of the vehicle . the air bag did not deploy nor did the shoulder harness latch even though i had my seat belt on. i feel this may be a safety concern so i am making you aware of this.problem since i was injured . the car i hit had pulled out of a shopping center acoss in front of me it was a chevy cavalier , which i hit on the drivers side between the front and rear wheels. | |||
| AIR BAGS - FRONTAL - SENSOR/CONTROL MODULE | |||
| 08/10/2005 | 20400 | 5 | 02/04/2004 |
| Vehicle had multiple occurrences of air bag warning light being displayed. the first episode required three visits to replace driver's side air bag restraint module and coil. second episode required two visits to replace coil again!), and i have lost faith in the vehicle's ability to properly manage air bag system.*ak | |||