Five problems related to side/window air bag have been reported for the 1998 Ford Contour. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
While driving another vehicle t-bone the consumer's vehicle on the passenger side. The drivers side airbag didn't deploy.
While driving at about 35 mph in wet conditions consumer hit a ditch and caused the airbags to deploy. Passenger side airbag was burning around the subframe.
When traveling 31 mph consumer was involved in a head-on collsion in which neither driver's side nor passenger's side air bags deployed upon impact. Consumer has contacted the dealer, vehicle was totaled . Vehicle accelerated on its own, lost control, hit an embankment head-on.
Drivers and passenger side air bag failed (unspecified reason), when driver lost control of vehicle during inclement weather. Nlm.
Violent deployment of passenger side air bag during collision caused injury to consumer face. Yh.