Four problems related to side/window air bag have been reported for the 2008 Chevrolet Suburban. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
Driving when you reach about 30-35 mph all the locks start cycling up and down, all the gauges go haywire, there is a throttle in the engine. When you turn it off sometimes it starts back up and runs fine and sometimes it won't do anything like the battery is dead and then a few minutes later it comes back on and starts back up. The last incident was 01/09/20 but this started in 12/2019. The vehicle has a brand new engine which only has about 1,000 miles on it. Also there is a crack in the dash at the corner of the passenger side air bag.
There is a crack on top of the dashboard that has become progressively larger. Recently a second crack appeared right over the passenger side airbag. This may interfere with the deployment of airbags. This seems to be a recurring problem with 2007 and 2008 chevy with same dashboard (tahoe, Suburban, et al. ) models.
The dash on my 2008 Suburban cracked at around 70,000 miles, in 2012. I reported it then to both my dealer and gm. They called this a cosmetic issue and that they were clearly not responsible, however, many many other Suburbans, tahoes, sliverados, and trucks have the very same issue and at exactly the same spots around the airbag. The cracks are around the passenger side airbag, such that, if the airbag were to deploy, sharp plastic shrapnel would fly into the passenger's face. This is a deadly safety concern that I take extremely serious, such that the situation becomes gm is literally and directly threatening the safety of my family. Pictures are attached which show the safety defect adjacent to the airbag. Please help push gm with addressing this serious deficiency.
Dash is cracking around passenger side airbag, if its deployed the hard plastic dash fragments could be deadly.