Front Air Bag Sensor Control Problems of GMC Sonoma

GMC Sonoma owners have reported 3 problems related to front air bag sensor control (under the air bag category). The most recently reported issues are listed below. Also please check out the statistics and reliability analysis of GMC Sonoma based on all problems reported for the Sonoma.

1 Front Air Bag Sensor Control problem of the 1996 GMC Sonoma

Failure Date: 09/11/2006

1996 gmac Sonoma air bag sensor rivet failure. Found drivers side sensor hanging from electrical lead, when I inspected the mounting area I found that the two rivets that secure the sensor were sheared off. I inspected the other sensor mounting and found that one of the two rivets was also sheared off. No front end impact had occurred and no indications were noted.

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2 Front Air Bag Sensor Control problem of the 1997 GMC Sonoma

Failure Date: 06/16/2006

While driving down the road, my air bag light on the dashboard , goes on and the engine quits. If the steering wheel air bag is tapped, the light goes off and the engine can be restarted. Very scary.

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3 Front Air Bag Sensor Control problem of the 2000 GMC Sonoma

Failure Date: 12/05/2000

Abs pulled when two of the tires on vehicle were not on the same type of road surface, causing vehicle to crash, during the accident, the airbags experienced no deployment, the service manager agreed that the abs was not functioning properly however the computer showed that none of the sensors failed.

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Other Common Air Bag related problems of GMC Sonoma

Problem Category Number of Problems
Air Bag Not Deploy problems
21
Side/window Air Bag problems
10
Air Bag problems
8
Front Air Bag problems
8
Air Bag Light On problems
4
Front Air Bag Sensor Control problems
3


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