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  • Side Air bag deployment ?

    While fishing around on the Internet, I came across some interesting information I thought I would pass on, from august of 2012. Wondering if anyone else had heard of this.

    Apparently they have had a few episodes of the side air bags deploying during tests drives and also on a few users during hard left turns with sudden brake deployment with the turn and in one instance with drifting.

    The article said, the issue became, the auto insurance company blamed GM and GM declined the claim due to the Black box info on what the driver was doing at the time.

    I'm thinking, well that's not right !? What about if you wanted to autocross, I sure as heck wouldn't expect that to happen and not be covered if you didn't hit anything?

  • #2
    member bannonm had this happen to him. He actually replaced the air bags himself.

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    • #3
      Well I guess I am not going to be doing any donuts in the school parking lot this summer, hehe

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Lawdog View Post
        Well I guess I am not going to be doing any donuts in the school parking lot this summer, hehe
        haha, aww you missed out. National donut day was yesterday.

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        • #5
          Couple of people I know did the auto cross on the Power Tour last year and popped the bags. Both were covered by GM. Now maybe this was done due to the fact that GM was the major sponsor of the tour and didn't want anything negative out there ?


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          Man that really sucks...........but that's the coolest thing I've ever seen

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          • #6
            Glad to hear they covered it !

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Lawdog View Post
              Glad to hear they covered it !
              Yeah don't hold your breath and think every situation would be covered. Mod your car and you just gave them an out. Seriously who would track a stock SS and actually be competitive. The 1LE is slightly better but still isn't that good. It's a risk you take.
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