Air Bag Not Deploy problems of the 2006 Chevrolet Equinox

Four problems related to air bag not deploy have been reported for the 2006 Chevrolet Equinox. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2006 Chevrolet Equinox based on all problems reported for the 2006 Equinox.

1 Air Bag Not Deploy problem

Failure Date: 11/22/2014

I purchased a car from drivetime, in the year of 2012, a 2006 chevy Equinox [awd]. On November 22, 2014, I was in my car and entering a blinf curve, when another car came head to head towards my SUV. I turned to the right to keep from going head on with the car. There was a 6 foot drop ditch on my passenger side. I swriled to keep from goig into the ditch and hit a telegram pole instead. I do not remember much, becasue I blink out for at least ten minutes, my nephew said. In the course of this hit and run accident, my airbags did not deploye. I was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. After I was released from the hospital, I called my mechanic to check my car to see if the damages can be fixed without using my insurance. To my shocked, he expressed that my airbag was never connected in my truck. I contacted drivetime dealership, they said it ws expressed in my contract that they did not warrant the airbag neither did they gaurantee that the work. I entered a panic phase, and the nightmares never stop. I almost died because they sold me a truck with disconnected airbags. I am afraid to drive my car, becasue next time I might not be so lucky. The car is in the shop, and they are harrassing me to pay the car not, and when will I get the car out of the shop. I asked them will they fix the airbag, they said no, and if I do not pay the car note that they would reppossess my car, and it would effect my credit. I am afraid of this car. Ii am disabled and I travel with a service dog [german sheppard]. She was hurt for a few days, after the incidence.

2 Air Bag Not Deploy problem

Failure Date: 05/01/2014

My airbag did not deploy when the car hit the tree. It hit so hard the back tires came completely off the ground.

3 Air Bag Not Deploy problem

Failure Date: 07/07/2010

2006 chevy Equinox air bags did not deploy in my daughter's front crash accident. Her car was totaled. She hit a mailbox and in a spin on the driver's front side hit a telephone pole. She hit her head on the steering wheel and hurt her back. The rear windshield was also shattered and also had a back flat tire. I called our local gm dealer and they told me to call gm. She called gm but they got her upset and she in other words said there was nothing they could do about the air bags not deploying. In other words this is a defect of this model and they aren't going to do anything about it.

4 Air Bag Not Deploy problem

Failure Date: 08/04/2009

Vehicle involved in a one-auto accident - 2006 Chevrolet Equinox - hydroplaned and hit an embankment with the front end and flipped over. The air bag did not deploy. This is not the first time this vehicle has had an impact to the front bumper and the air bag has never deployed. Each time the front bumper had damage sustained which should have caused the impact the set the air bag off.


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