Nine problems related to air bag have been reported for the 2013 Chevrolet Sonic. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2013 Chevrolet Sonic based on all problems reported for the 2013 Sonic.
On 7-27-2023 general motors issued a recall on 2013 models of Sonic, my VIN was not included in this recall. However on 4-16-2025 my Sonic was involved in a impact incident in which the air bags should have deployed, and did not. It is my opinion that chevy, knowing of the issues with the model of car, should have issued a recall for my vehicle as well, but did not. As a result I suffered additional strain and injury during my impact as no airbags deployed.
The Sonic rear ended a stationary vehicle going close to 50mph. No airbags deployed.
Car accident November 3, 2023. A dear ran in front car while traveling 55mps. As the impact took place causing front and of the car to be smashed air bags in the car did not deployed. Causing head to hit steering wheel.
While someone is sitting in the passenger seat, it does not always show "on" on the display for the airbag. At least once it has displayed both "on" and "off" at the same time and did not recognize if the seatbelts was latched or not.
While I was driving down the road. The whole airbag compartment on the steering with the horn became unattached and fell into my lap causing me to almost wreck.
Takata recall, my car has been hit in the front end 3 times and the last time was a hard hit, none of the times have I had an airbag come out.
The vehicle was moving and I had a strong frontal clash against a retaining wall, the impact damaged all across the front of the car and the air bags did not work. The insurance company declared it a total loss and the agency where we bought the vehicle is not claimed responsibility for this serious lack in the safety equipment which is worrying for the car lot where it came from my car and the safeguard of the drivers of this type of brand of defective vehicles.
2013 Chevrolet Sonic. Consumer writes in regard to an accident that caused deployment of airbags which caused the consumer to obtain brain damage.
The car has a detection system in the passenger seat. This should detect if anyone is in that seat. When passenger is detected, the passenger airbags should be activated. For small children (under a certain, not specified weight limit), the airbags on passenger side are not activated. Problem is that the passenger airbags are not even activated when my wife is in that seat. She is born 06/13/1971 and weighs about 130 lb. Obviously, the passenger airbags should be activated when an adult is in that seat that weighs ~ 130 lb. Since this is a serious safety issue, we took the car to Chevrolet dealer (autonation Chevrolet northpoint, 2175 mansell road, alpharetta, GA, 30004, phone 855-478-9750, contact mr. Mark merris). Engineer and service manager did all checks and concluded the car is operating as designed. We called Chevrolet owner center (sr. Manager called erik, case file nr. 71/1438834584). They looked into the case and spoke to Chevrolet dealer northpoint. Conclusion is the same; car is working as designed. We spoke to higher manager of sr. Manager mr. Erik at Chevrolet's owner center. She also concluded the same. In our opinion, there is a serious safety hazard with the checrolet Sonic 2013 as airbags are not activated, even for some adults. Our car will not be fixed by Chevrolet USA or Chevrolet dealer so we are hoping you can address this problem. For further questions, please contact me at below contact details. Thanks in advance, rob woudman 2008 norland circle court 30022, alpharetta (GA). Home phone 678-615-3055. Cell phone 4043940771.